Public Citizen’s Lori Wallach talks to Democracy Now! from Pittsburgh where she’s attending the G-20 economic summit. Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch program, warns that the World Trade Organization has long advanced extreme financial deregulation under the guise of trade agreements and could undermine the current push for increasing regulation.
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[...] As we blogged about earlier, Lori Wallach, director of our Global Trade Watch program spoke with Democracy Now! from Pittsburgh while attending the G-20 summit. She warned the G-20 to “Just say No” to financial deregulation supported by the Word Trade Organization. Wallach was quoted in a Foreign Policy in Focus article by John Fetter, in which she discusses the contradictory plan of the G-20 leaders to increase regulation in the financial sector to avoid the next economic crisis and at the same time complete the implementation of the WTO Doha Round, which would add to financial deregulation. Check out what our Eyes on Trade Blog has to say about the outcome of the G-20. [...]
October 8, 2009 at 10:40 am