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THE GLOBAL RESEARCH LECTURE
Montreal, January 14, 2009
Causes and consequences of the financial meltdown;The speculative onslaught;Financial fraud and the “bank bailouts”;Bankruptcy of the real economy; Impacts on employment, wages and social services;Towards a spiralling public debt;The economic crisis and its relationship to the Middle East war; The centralization of corporate power; The concentration of wealth;The globalization of poverty. What are the policy alternatives?