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CRISIS ! 

By the Fall of 2008 the long predicted financial crisis hit big time, threatening to spread into a major depression.  The Center for Global Justice convened a group to discuss what was happening and prepare a series of public programs to widen the discussion in San Miguel de Allende.  The first program on October 15 posed the question “What is the Financial Crisis All About?” and featured a panel consisting of Jeff Faux, Cliff DuRand, Arturo Yarish and Marge Allen, chaired by Bob Stone.  That was followed on October 29 with a second panel “Which Way Out of the Financial Crisis?” featuring Jeff Faux, Cliff DuRand and Betsy Bowman, again chaired by Bob Stone. 

Some of the panel presentations along with other significant articles on the subject are posted on this website under the general subject CRISIS.  We invite you to send us for posting additional material that you find especially insightful.  We seek a wide dialog about the crisis and the opportunities it can provide for significant social change.  Send your articles to admin[at]globaljusticecenter.org
Andrew Gavin Marshall The Economic Recovery is an Illusion: The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Warns of Future Crises
Aleksandr Buzgalin & Andrey Kolganov 
The economic crisis: Whose fault is it, and how can it be overcome? (Reactualising Marxism)
Betsy Bowman,
Whose Freedom, Whose Democracy?
Betsy Bowman, Neoliberal Globalization:  Expropriation from Above
Cliff DuRand, Reflections on the financial crisis and over accumulation
Cliff DuRand, We are all bankers now
Cliff DuRand & Betsy Bowman End of an Era?
Cliff DuRand & Betsy Bowman Globalization and the Economic Crisis
Cliff DuRand & Betsy Bowman reviewed of Kevin Phillips' book Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, & the Global Crisis of American Capitalism 
Dan La Botz, (external link) The Financial Crisis:  Will the U.S. Nationalize the Banks?
David Schweickart, Bailout
David Schweickart, What To Do When the Bailout Fails
Ellen Brown (external link)   Turning the Tables on Wall Street: North Dakota Shows Cash-Starved States How They Can Create Their Own Credit
Jeff Faux, Is this the big one?
Jeff Faux, The Ultimate Bear Market

Jeff Faux, So Far From God, So Close To Wall St.
Jeff Faux, The More Things Change
Jeff Faux, Marge Allen & Ben Ptashnik (external link)  Possibilities for Change 
Steve Martinot, The Causes of the Current Financial Crisis

Video: Oct. 29 panel on the financial crisis, part 1 (external link) http://vimeo.com/2234376
Video: Oct. 29 panel on the financial crisis, part 2 (external link) http://vimeo.com/2257542