Carne Ross

This has just been broadcast on the BBC in the UK, and will be soon on the BBC World Service.

Every year, the BBC holds the “Reith lecture” which is a major set-piece speech by some public figure on an issue of the day.  Niall Ferguson this year gave a series of talks on “The Rule of Law”.  He and I had a bit of a contretemps at the recording of the lecture a few weeks ago, in New York City.

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Continue reading The Leaderless Revolution on The Colbert Report, May Day (May 1st), 2012→

This note was shared with members of the OWS working group on Alternative Banking today:

The Commons: A Good Bank 

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This note has been prepared by the alternative banking working group of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement.  The note is for discussion with the OWS movement and more broadly. 

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The Daily Telegraph features The Leaderless Revolution as a book of the year for 2011.  Key passage below:

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Huffington Post did a great little piece on the Alternative Banking working group that I’m part of.  You can find the original article here.  I’ve also pasted it below. Thank you Janell Ross for coming along, and taking an interest.

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The Alternative Banking working group of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is meeting this afternoon.  Here are some suggestions for the meetng:

Here are a few notes to get us started this afternoon.  These are just suggestions for discussion.

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The other night, at the Occupy Wall Street “General Assembly”, I announced the formation of a new working group to examine alternatives to the current banking system.

The idea is to explore existing alternatives to mainstream high street banks (credit unions, cooperative banks etc), think about an ideal system, then try to set it up.  No small ambition.  But you’ve got to start somewhere.

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