Daily Archives: October 8, 2011


Austerity Games and the Global Impacts of Wall Street

There is a list of events at Occupy Boston Arts & Culture Event Archive.

One event that I found was from the Free School University at Occupy Boston, Austerity Games and the Global Impacts of Wall Street.

Below are the descriptions of the three parts of the video. You’ll have to view them on Facebook.

Some comments in praise of Fed policy and Ben Bernanke occur at about 7:15 into the third segment of the video.

Part 1 of 3: Mark Blyth (professor of international political economy at Brown University and fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies) and Kevin P. Gallagher (associate professor of international relations at Boston University and research associate at the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University) discuss how Wall Street interests have hijacked the debates of crisis and debt in the US and across the globe and in so doing have duped publics into thinking that austerity is the route to recovery and growth. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Part 2 of 3:

Part 3 of 3:


Justice For Wall Street

I have another sign to use when we protest.



October 9, 2011

I was told the above sign was ambiguous. How about this?

 

My critic tells me it’s still a little ambiguous. How about this?

 

Or maybe this?

 

Occupy Wall Street is Confronting the Malefactors

Confronting the Malefactors is an opinion piece from Paul Krugman.

With unions and a growing number of Democrats now expressing at least qualified support for the protesters, Occupy Wall Street is starting to look like an important event that might even eventually be seen as a turning point.

What can we say about the protests? First things first: The protesters’ indictment of Wall Street as a destructive force, economically and politically, is completely right.

I wonder if Paul Krugman saying this is enough to refute the people who have been saying that the protesters are idiotic.


IMF advisor says we face a Worldwide Banking Meltdown

The article IMF advisor says we face a Worldwide Banking Meltdown in Raw Story perhaps is the explanation for the violent swings in my bank stocks. I have been too busy with Occupy Boston related stuff to stay on top of the news.

Here is a teaser,

“This would be a crisis that would be in my view more serious than the crisis in 2008…. What we don’t know the state of credit default swaps held by banks against sovereign debt and against European banks, nor do we know the state of CDS held by British banks, nor are we certain of how certain the exposure of British banks is to the Ireland sovereign debt problems.”

And here is the video,