This video from Iceland says about itself:
Protest in Reykjavik
They where protesting the President of the Icelandic central bank, Mr. David Oddson, former prime minister of Iceland.
And demanding their resignation.
You can hear in the video – where they are shouting “David out – David out”.
They are also protesting that the position of central bank manager – is a political position.
That the bank managers are not educated in financial matters.
And all their decicions are political.
The economic crisis continues.
Audio: David Harvey on the `Enigma of capital’ and the current capitalist economic crisis
A lecture by Professor David Harvey
City University of New York Graduate Center
November 14, 2008
1 hour 2 minutes
Listen now: here.
Sharp conflicts in Europe over economic stimulus program: here.
Making the world’s poor pay: The economic crisis and the Global South
[This article is available in Spanish: `Que paguen los pobres del mundo
La crisis económica y del Sur del globo’ http://links.org.au/node/760 ]
By Adam Hanieh
November 22, 2008 — The current global economic crisis has all the
earmarks of an epoch-defining event. Mainstream economists – not usually
known for their exaggerated language – now openly employ phrases like
“systemic meltdown” and “peering into the abyss”. On October 29, for
example, Martin Wolf, one of the top financial commentators of the
Financial Times, warned that the crisis portends “mass bankruptcy”,
“soaring unemployment” and a “catastrophe” that threatens “the
legitimacy of the open market economy itself… the danger remains huge
and time is short”.
* Read more http://links.org.au/node/757
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