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Finance and economy is the focus of this month’s Inspiring Ideas – and as you might expect the ongoing impact of the financial crisis features heavily. But the content we have put together for you is distinctly positive in outlook. With one eye firmly on the future, our impressive lineup of featured experts discusses practical steps to getting global economies back on track. Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs and more are all waiting for you in this month’s Inspiring Ideas.
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Chris Stanley, Editor HSM Inspiring Ideas
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Tips from the Top
Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman has become one of today’s most influential voices on the financial crisis and the action that needs to be taken to combat it. Here he highlights three conventional prejudices that politicians and economics officials need to transcend in order to pull out of the downward spiral.
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Million Dollar Tales Banco Santander
When in 1857 Queen Isabel II of Spain signed the royal decree that brought into being a small regional bank in North Eastern Spain, it must have been hard to imagine that 150 years later this same bank would have become one of the world’s most important financial institutions. Read on to see how Banco Santander has succeeded where so many others have failed. [Read +] |
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After Office
Are you ready for more global turmoil? So asks best selling author and Wharton professor Paul Schoemaker. As we enter a period of increased upheaval and global turmoil, only a prepared mind which knows how to adapt can do well. Here Schoemaker offers some insights into how to start getting prepared. [Read +] |
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 VIDEO One of the economic world’s most outspoken voices in recent times, Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz here discusses why coordinated global stimulus is currently needed as part of the solution to the current crisis and the reforms needed in the IMF and World Bank to make it happen. [watch video] |
| VIDEO Financial crises don’t have to be accepted as inevitable. So says renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs. Instead he highlights some of the measures which we can take to move forward and prevent the sort of situation we are currently experiencing from occurring again. [watch video] |
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