News stories by Hazel Henderson, page 3

The financial meltdown generated by Wall Street and the "too big to fail" culture of global money-centre banks and financiers is generating local initiatives and demands to decentralise and democratise finance, writes Hazel Henderson, author of Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006), president of Ethical Markets Media, an independent social enterprise covering local economies, new currencies, and the growing green sectors.

In today's global financial crisis, the question inevitably arises, Who will the new financiers be? writes Hazel Henderson, author of Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006), co-creator of the Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators.

The mainstream media in 2008 ran myriad diagnoses of the sickness of the US economy. Central bankers, politicians, and their economic advisors sought to explain the economy's swoon in medical terms: a heart attack, a seizure, on life support, on the operating table, writes Hazel Henderson, author of Ethical Markets: Growing The Green Economy and president of the independent Ethical Markets Media.