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Action to cut single use plastic bags and packaging 2025
11/27/2024
Efforts to end the use of single use plastics that are a threat to health and the environment, land, rivers and oceans. The use of plastic water bottles has worsened the crisis. Supermarkets are slow in the US to ban plastic bags showing need for prudent regulation. Talks in Busan, South Korea, in Nov 2024 to find a solution to the plastics proliferation crisis. The plastics industry including plastics makers and recycling companies say things are under control with recycling goals, yet reports show only 30% of plastics is being recycled each year in 2024, and going back to the beginning of plastics 2 decades back only about 10% has been recycled.
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Inside the Plastic Industry’s Battle to Win Over Hearts and Minds
NYTimes.com 11/27/2024
Washington Post 06/10/2024
China Tries to Stem the Flow of Its Plastic Waste
WSJ 01/20/2020
Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten a Crisis
WSJ 12/12/2018
New York Businesses Anticipate Plastic-Bag Ban
WSJ 02/27/2020
Supermarkets in France forced to ditch plastic and set up ‘refill stations’ selling unpackaged goods
The Times 04/01/2021
Larry Kotlikoff and other economists who support strong action to strip banks of risk-taking activities.
02/04/2010
Among those who support such moves are Simon Johnson at MIT, Robert Lucas at the University of Chicago, Jeffrey Sachs at Columbia. Most recently Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England. Glenn Hubbard of Columbia and an advisor to President George W. Bush compares the action needed to breakup "too-big-to-fail" banks to the action taken by Theodore Roosevelt, see the link to Hubbard.
Grouped Articles
Weâre All Still Hostages to the Big Banks
New York Times 08/25/2013
How Larry Kotlikoff Would Fix the Financial System
BusinessWeek 02/04/2010
Irreversible Damage: Why Little Action on Banking Can Do Great Harm.
New York Times 04/30/2010
New Life for 'the Volcker Rule'
Wall Street Journal 05/01/2010
BusinessWeek 04/15/2010
Ireland Crisis Might Give China Break It Seeks
Unknown 11/19/2010
Simon Johnson and other experts on the capital shortfall and banking crisis in the U.S.
04/15/2010
Johnson points to irreversible damage from the lack of aggressive action with the large banks from the Obama administration. Johnson pointed to the problems with too big to fail banks. now he and Peter Boone give a lucid explanation on the big picture facing America in relation to the task of aggressive action to resolve the banking problem.
Grouped Articles
Weâre All Still Hostages to the Big Banks
New York Times 08/25/13
Irreversible Damage: Why Little Action on Banking Can Do Great Harm.
New York Times 04/30/10
New Life for 'the Volcker Rule'
Wall Street Journal 05/01/10
BusinessWeek 04/15/10
Jamie Dimon: Americaâs Least-Hated Banker
New York Times 12/01/10
After the reforms: Safer, but not yet safe enough
Economist 05/21/11
Hank Greenberg and AIG.
01/09/2010
Hank Greenberg says Goldman's machinations may have caused the difficulties at AIG.
Grouped Articles
BusinessWeek 04/01/10
Hank Greenberg Still in the Ring at 90, Battling A.I.G. Charges
New York Times 04/30/15
Wall Street Journal 06/16/15
In A.I.G. Case, Surprise Ruling That Could End All Bailouts
New York Times 06/15/15
Ex-A.I.G. Chief Wins Bailout Suit, but Gets No Damages
New York Times 06/15/15
Evan Greenberg Dropped Out, Then Built Insurance Behemoth
Wall Street Journal 12/16/15
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