OUTLOOK FOR FINANCIAL MARKETS REGULATIONS IN 2015

LOBBYING FOR EMERGING AND RAPID GROWTH INDUSTRIES

Future jobs are being created every hour of every day in the minds of visionary thinkers. But only the true catalytic innovators are creating entire new industries.

Here are a number of both emerging and rapid growth industries that will be employing millions of people in the coming years.

EUROPE’S ECONOMIC MADNESS ACCORDING TO JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ

" In Europe the gap between where it is and where it would have been in the absence of the crisis continues to grow. In most European Union countries, per capita GDP is less than it was before the crisis. A lost half-decade is quickly turning into a whole one. Behind the cold statistics, lives are being ruined, dreams are being dashed, and families are falling apart (or not being formed) as stagnation – depression in some places – runs on year after year.

EU NEEDS BOTH MONETARY AND FISCAL STIMULUS

Europe is finally going to get its own massive monetary stimulus. But that doesn't mean it can save the region's economy. A flurry of media reports suggest Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, will unveil a program today to buy bonds worth 50 billion euros a month, starting in March. That could inject more than one trillion euros ($1.2 trillion) into the eurozone economy by the end of 2016.

U.S. ECONOMIC RECOVERY: THANKS TO THE STIMULUS PACKAGE

On February 13, 2009, in direct response to the economic crisis and at the urging of President Obama, Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 -- commonly referred to as the "stimulus" or the "stimulus package." Four days later, the President signed the Recovery Act into law. The three immediate goals of the Recovery Act were:

IMPLEMENTING THE OECD PRINCIPLES FOR TRANSPARENCY AND INTEGRITY IN LOBBYING

The OECD Report 'Lobbyists, Governments and Public Trust, Volume 3 (2014) takes stock of progress made in implementing the 2010 Recommendation on Principles for Transparency and Integrity in Lobbying, the only international instrument addressing major risks in the public decision-makiing process related to lobbying. The review process found that although there is an emerging consensus on the need for transparency to shed light on lobbying, the degree of transparency in lobbying varies considerabkly from country to country.

ECB COUNCIL MEETING AND QUANTITATIVE EASING ON GERMAN TERMS

When the European Central Bank’s (ECB) governing council meets on 22nd January,  it will take a historic decision. Among the main central banks, the ECB alone has abstained from a big programme of quantitative easing involving the creation of money to buy sovereign bonds with the aim of spurring growth and inflation. The economic case for QE in the euro area is overwhelming: the feeble economic recovery that has followed Europe’s double-dip recession is faltering; headline inflation has turned negative and longer-term inflation expectations have also declined to a worrying extent.

ENCADREMENT DU LOBBYING EN FRANCE

François Hollande veut "mieux encadrer les groupes de pression". Le président a chargé Michel Sapin, Ministre de l’Economie, des Finances et de l’Industrie d'élaborer "un projet de loi pour la transparence dans la vie économique".

U.S. STATE OF THE UNION: BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE

"Tonight, after a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999. Our unemployment rate is now lower than it was before the financial crisis. More of our kids are graduating than ever before; more of our people are insured than ever before; we are as free from the grip of foreign oil as we've been in almost 30 years. The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong.

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ANNUAL MEETING 2015-DAVOS 21-24 JANUARY

The Theme for 2015 The New Global Context

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