segunda-feira, 12 de janeiro de 2009

THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS

The Great Depression of the 21st Century
Montreal, January 14

Public Lecture organized by the
Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG)


Michel Chossudovsky is Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), which hosts the critically acclaimed website http://www.globalresearch.ca/ . He is a contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica. His writings have been translated into more than 20 languages. The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order

Causes and consequences of the financial meltdown;
The speculative onslaught;Financial fraud and the "bank bailouts";
Bankruptcy of the real economy; Impacts on employment, wages and social services;
Towards a spiralling public debt;
The economic crisis and its relationship to the Middle East war;
The centralization of corporate power;
The concentration of wealth;
The globalization of poverty.
What are the policy alternatives?

Wednesday, 14 January 2009 at 7pm
Centre St-Pierre, 1212 rue Panet, S-100