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...saying that we should take a foreign-policy stance; I'm saying it's not a good place to invest our money.' JOEL ANDERSON, California assemblyman, about a bill he wrote that would ban the state's investment in Iran. When he introduced the bill in January, he called Iran's finances 'the mother's milk of terrorism...
...saying that we should take a foreign policy stance; I'm saying it's not a good place to invest our money...
...politics, money can't buy you love--but it can buy you time: TV time, face time, time to be taken seriously because political speculators are willing to invest in you. Thus former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, long idling at about 3% in the polls, now gets 15 minutes of fame, courtesy of first-quarter fund-raising results. As for Senator Barack Obama, the $25 million man, the lights can only burn brighter...
These are two of the companies from which we want Harvard to divest. Our hope is that divestment will force the companies to change their behavior, and once they do so, we would gladly re-invest in them. We ask Harvard to divest only when a company meets four stringent criteria: 1) It has a business relationship with the Sudanese government or is involved in a government-created project; 2) It fails to benefit civilians outside of the government; 3) It fails to implement a substantial corporate governance policy regarding the crisis in Darfur; and 4) It fails to respond...
...Mexico's financial oligopoly have all but shut out small business with exorbitant interest rates and prohibitive red tape - despite the fact that small- and medium-size enterprises employ most Mexicans. Migrants send as much as $25 billion home annually, "but there is virtually no engine to receive it, invest it and turn it into jobs," says AMUCSS director Isabel Cruz. "That's the ugly paradox of Mexico...