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INTERIM FINANCE GROUP MEETING NOVEMBER 24TH 2013

INTERIM FINANCE GROUP MEETING 4.30pm Nov 24th 2013.
INTERIM FINANCE GROUP MEETING 4.30pm Nov 24th RFH Minutes begun at 5.15. No livestream but video recording made
Present
Liz B, Obi, Julie, David D, John C, Tim F
PROPOSALS to take to GA: Remove the ring fence for legal expenses of £1300
DECISIONS Signatories. Number of[…]

By Obi_Live November 26, 2013 Category: Finances, Working Groups No Comments

London Occupy Economics Working Group (EWG) budget response – “a missed opportunity”

The current financial crises (Eurozone, US and UK public and private sector debt, banks’ insolvency) were precipitated by the sub-prime mortgage crisis of 2008 which was the culmination of a housing fuelled, economic boom in the US, UK and Europe (particularly Spain and Ireland). Rising house prices fuelled an explosion in consumer credit and private[…]

By Clive Menzies March 20, 2013 Category: Austerity, Banking and Money, Economics WG, Finances, Housing, Land, Markets, Securities and Derivatives, News, Newsletter, Newswire, Policies, Press releases, Uncategorized, Working Groups No Comments

Rebalancing Austerity – a modest alternative budget 2013 – from Occupy Birmingham

We can’t do everything in one budget, but we can make a start. This is a start, by scrapping the austerity agenda, and starting a programme to reinvest in people and begin to reduce the criminal inequality that successive administrations have enabled. Some of these suggestions have been made by unions, campaigners, some by us.[…]

By Clive Menzies March 20, 2013 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Austerity, Economics WG, Finances, Housing, Land, Markets, Securities and Derivatives, News, Press releases, Working Groups No Comments

Where will economic growth come from?

The global economic system demands exponential growth to survive rather like a bicycle which falls over if forward momentum ceases. It is underpinned by the interest based money system which demands expanding debt to provide sufficient money to pay the interest on pre-existing debt.
Growth in the US, UK and other countries has, for the[…]

By Clive Menzies February 16, 2013 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Banking and Money, Economics WG, Finances, Markets, Securities and Derivatives, News, Working Groups No Comments