The Wall Street Consensus

the wall street complex, international monetary fund and washington consensus

“occupy wall street” movement which has aimed the heart of the global financial capitalist system enjoys a special significance in the perspective of social-economic- political, human rights (work force), moral and cultural heritage of nations and can be considered as a symbol of work force economic jihad in national and global level in order to realize justice and socio-economic equality. but ...

Occupy Wall Street, Bay Street and the street nearest you.

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a study in early January highlighting the growing income disparities between the richest and poorest Canadians. Income tax files from 2007 show that the average income of the top 1% of income earners was over $400,000 compared to about $44,000 for the average Canadian, almost a tenfold difference. Those who laboured at the minimum wage earned...

Towards a post-Keynesian consensus in macroeconomics: Reconciling the Cambridge and Wall Street views

Context Mediation on Wall Street

This paper reports on a practical implementation of a context mediator for the fixed income securities industry. We describe industry circumstances and the data and calculation services (DCS) mediator developed and deployed in the early 1990s. The mediator was designed as an interpretive engine controlled by a static declarative knowledge structure and client preference data. In addition to het...

The Uninvited Guest: Patents on Wall Street

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta E C O N O M I C R E V I E W Fourth Quarter 2003 U p until a few years ago, State Street Bank was just another big bank in Boston. But in 1998 the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals used a patent case filed by the bank to transform the law concerning what is patentable. Since then, the bank’s name has been irrevocably linked to a landmark case. Like Linda Brown of B...