Green Options » FT http://greenoptions.com/tag/ft Posts tagged 'FT' Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:44:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Wall Street Says The Obama Administration’s Bank Bailout Plan Amounts to “Creeping Nationalization” http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/02/17/wall-street-says-the-obama-administration%e2%80%99s-bank-bailout-plan-amounts-to-%e2%80%9ccreeping-nationalization%e2%80%9d/ http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/02/17/wall-street-says-the-obama-administration%e2%80%99s-bank-bailout-plan-amounts-to-%e2%80%9ccreeping-nationalization%e2%80%9d/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:44:30 +0000 Reenita Malhotra http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/02/17/wall-street-says-the-obama-administration%e2%80%99s-bank-bailout-plan-amounts-to-%e2%80%9ccreeping-nationalization%e2%80%9d/

Sunday’s Financial Times has confirmed that the administration will be putting Wall Street banks through a “stress test.” The $2,000bn bank bailout plan was announced last week ahead of formal discussions with the industry’s representatives.

The bailout package includes financial assistance to purchase toxic assets from banks and a guarantee to cover some of the losses on those assets. And get this; the administration plans to buy convertible preferred shares in that need capital following the “stress test”. Now who could possibly blame Wall Street for being upset about this “creeping nationalization” of the banking industry?

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The world believes that entrepreneurs are key to climate change solutions, so get set to present your business plan.

Forum for the Future, a not-for-profit sustainable development organization has collaborated with the  Financial Times, newspaper and technology giant HP to announce the FT Climate Change Challenge, a competition offers a $75,000 prize for the best innovation to tackle climate change.

The FT Climate Change Challenge aims to find the most promising new innovations designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or help increase our resilience to the consequences of global warming. The winning entry can be from any field, including construction, energy, transport, or social innovation.

The competition, which closes for entries on January 30th, has been supported by Innovation Exchange - the world’s first ‘collaborative’ open innovation marketplace with an international community of innovators and thought leaders that work individually or collaborate in teams to solve clients’ business innovation challenges. Innovation Exchange’s clients are Global 5000 companies and not-for-profit organizations that want to increase their innovation capacity beyond their internal teams to discover their next important innovation, minimize their innovation risk and accelerate time-to-market. www.innovationexchange.com

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