Saturday, November 12, 2011

The G20 and Financial Globalization

Last week's G20 Summit in Cannes, France is already being written off as a bust by the international financiers who were hoping to bolster the fledgling European Financial Stability Fund with international support and to implement a new global financial services tax which they claim will be the long-term solution to the ongoing global economic meltdown.

From Global Economic and Market Analysis That Matters
By Visual Economics

Whether you’re in the 99%, the 1%, or attempting to ignore the issue altogether, Occupy Wall Street is a pretty enormous–and now international–movement. It’s still making the news daily, blocking traffic, raising voices and making itself heard.

Take a look at how the protests got started, how they’ve evolved, what the mission is and how the public and government perceive it.