Comments on: Is Africa Immune to the Financial Crisis? http://africanarguments.org/2009/04/is-africa-immune-to-the-financial-crisis/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:35:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Per Kurowski http://africanarguments.org/2009/04/is-africa-immune-to-the-financial-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-1952 Per Kurowski Fri, 01 May 2009 03:47:10 +0000 http://africanarguments.org/?p=233#comment-1952 We have had the credit rating agencies putting up AAA signs and capitals following these over precipices and none of these were in Africa but in California. Please listen to the video below which explains a totally different angle of the financial crisis and then thereafter read a document I presented in the UN and where I urge the world of financial regulators in 2007 to stop taxing de-facto risk-taking… since risk is the oxygen of development. <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/user/PerKurowski/video/x94usd_they-regulators-authorized-a-levera_news" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymotion.com/user/PerKurowski/video/x94usd_they-regulators-authorized-a-levera_news</a>   http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/hld/HLD2007/UN_FFD_Statement_Basel_Accord.pdf   Cheers   Per Kurowski We have had the credit rating agencies putting up AAA signs and capitals following these over precipices and none of these were in Africa but in California.

Please listen to the video below which explains a totally different angle of the financial crisis and then thereafter read a document I presented in the UN and where I urge the world of financial regulators in 2007 to stop taxing de-facto risk-taking… since risk is the oxygen of development.

http://www.dailymotion.com/user/PerKurowski/video/x94usd_they-regulators-authorized-a-levera_news
 
http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/hld/HLD2007/UN_FFD_Statement_Basel_Accord.pdf
 
Cheers
 
Per Kurowski

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