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The ramifications of the Libor scandal--what Warren Buffett glibly called a can of worms that affects the whole world--grow by the day. Criminal indictments of individuals, even if firms are too big to indict, appear to be in the making as the tsunami’s shock waves are about to spread to many of the usual suspects. One can only imagine the trial lawyers licking their chops. Has there ever been a class action lawsuit on behalf of the whole world?<br>
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Central bankers and regulators, understandably panicked at the height of the crisis, may have been complicit in some of the distortions in an effort to create the pretense of financial system stability. However, like the so-called “war on terror,” we find the war on financial system collapse is filled with ends-justifying-the-means moral and legal questions.<br>
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<font class="yiv1197007143Apple-style-span" color="#111111" face="calibri"><span style="font-size: x-large;" class="yiv1197007143Apple-style-span"><b>Evergreen Cooperatives Launch New Website and Are Featured in Brancaccio Documentary </b></span></font><font color="#333333" size="2" face="calibri"><br>
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<font color="#333333" size="2" face="calibri">The Evergreen Cooperatives, the subject of a </font><font color="#333333" size="2" face="calibri"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.capitalinstitute.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=5634&qid=125099" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></font><font color="#5987c6">Capital Institute Field Guide to Investing in a Resilient Economy</a></font><font color="#333333" size="2" face="calibri"> study published last year, are profiled, along with other community-wealth-building projects, in the newly revised documentary <i>Fixing the Future</i> by David Brancaccio. To attend one of the screenings that will be held in many American cities on July 18th and 19th visit this</font><font color="#333333" size="2" face="calibri"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.capitalinstitute.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=5635&qid=125099" rel="nofollow"
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<font class="yiv1197007143Apple-style-span" color="#111111" face="calibri"><span style="font-size: x-large;" class="yiv1197007143Apple-style-span"><b>Another Summer Visit to the Capital Institute Archives</b></span></font></div>
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<font color="#333333" size="2" face="calibri">In June 2010 we posted a </font><font color="#333333" size="2" face="calibri"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.capitalinstitute.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=5624&qid=125099" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></font><font color="#5987c6">pr</a></font><font color="#333333" size="2" face="calibri"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.capitalinstitute.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=5637&qid=125099" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></font><font color="#5987c6">ofile</a></font><font color="#333333" size="2" face="calibri"> with More for Mission’s then director Lisa Hagerman to find out how the organization, launched in 2007 by the Annie E. Casey
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Since we posted our profile in June 2010, the organization grew to a total membership of 96 foundations. In May 2012 M4M and Program Related Investment Makers Network (PRI) combined to form the Mission Investors Exchange.<br>
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The merger of the PRI Makers Network and More for Mission was the end result of a long-standing relationship between the two organizations that were initially focused on different areas of the mission-investment spectrum. <br>
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<font color="#333333" size="2" face="calibri">Laura Flanders’s interview with John Fullerton on making finance safe for the planet went live online last week. In it, Flanders asks penetrating questions about the Newtonian groundings of neoclassical economics and finance, reaching full employment without economic growth, and the role of dematerialization in a sustainable economy. John’s responses detail the underlying theme of Capital Institute’s work: structuring a financial system that helps us stay within biophysical limits and puts us on a path toward a fairer distribution of wealth.<br>
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The video has since been distributed on </font><font color="#333333" size="2" face="calibri"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.capitalinstitute.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=5644&qid=125099" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></font><font color="#5987c6">Laura Flanders’s site</a></font><font color="#333333" size="2" face="calibri"> as well as numerous other outlets including </font><font color="#333333" size="2" face="calibri"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.capitalinstitute.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=5645&qid=125099" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></font><font color="#5987c6">CurrentTV</a></font><font color="#333333" size="2" face="calibri">, </font><font color="#333333" size="2" face="calibri"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.capitalinstitute.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=5646&qid=125099" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></font><font
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<font size="2" face="calibri"><font color="#cccccc">One-third of all counties in the United States are part of a USDA declared natural disaster area, but almost no one in political office is willing to say why: climate change. An article from The Atlantic outlines all the facts.</font></font></div>
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<i><font color="#333333" size="2" face="calibri"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.capitalinstitute.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=5642&qid=125099" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></font><font color="#5987c6">U.S. Declares the Largest Natural Disaster Area Ever Due to Drought</a></font></i><font size="2" face="calibri"><font color="#cccccc"><br>
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