Archive for April 15th, 2008

Bill Cara: Finance Ministers vs. Central Bank Governors

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

In commenting the G7/FSF-report, Bill Cara makes an exemplified critique in the tradition of the American Populist movement: The G-7 meetings are ‘potentially’ the most important in the world. This is the gathering of Finance/Treasury Ministers and Central Bankers of historically the seven most economically powerful nations. There is a big gap, ...

G7-April-2008-Meeting and Plaza-Accord

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

French Finance Minister Christine Lagard has compared the recent FSF-report released by the G7 Finance Ministers last week to the Plaza Accord (as quoted by Christopher Swann in an article at Bloomington): The April 11 statement was "not very different'' from the importance of the 1985 Plaza Accord. The Plaza Accord reached ...