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deadparrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 02:10 AM Original message |
Lend to beggars, Nobel laureate urges banks |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 02:18 AM Response to Original message |
1. He's right, the prize gives him a platform he wouldn't have had otherwise, |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 02:27 AM Response to Original message |
2. Wasn't Cindy Sheehan nominated for this one? |
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ckramer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 04:21 AM Response to Original message |
3. The US banks have already done that in the current housing bubble |
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AtomicKitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 08:25 AM Response to Original message |
4. He was on Jon Stewart's TDS recently |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
5. How exactly does microlending work? |
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pop goes the weasel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 01:45 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. it depends on the rules of the lenders |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 09:44 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. Interesting. It almost sounds like a self-help group |
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rebel with a cause (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
6. A little rain on the bankers parade |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 12:34 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Sounds about right. Welcome to DU. |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 01:50 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. ...and yet the Nobel Committee knows nothing of this. Hm. |
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rebel with a cause (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 02:34 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Like I said |
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newyawker99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 02:02 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Hi rebel with a cause!! |
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rebel with a cause (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 02:18 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. hey newyawker99 |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-11-06 07:59 AM Response to Reply #6 |
19. Got a link? |
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rebel with a cause (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-11-06 01:38 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Sorry |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-11-06 02:22 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. If you don't want to back up your statements, that's OK. |
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rebel with a cause (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-11-06 02:39 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. As yours |
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gorbal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-11-06 10:45 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. I found a link in 5 seconds |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 07:51 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. I don't build altars & pray to anyone.... |
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rebel with a cause (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 10:34 AM Response to Reply #26 |
30. Thank you for your advise and for finding a link |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 07:47 AM Response to Reply #23 |
27. So--the rest of us should take the word of an anonymous stranger.... |
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rebel with a cause (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 10:17 AM Response to Reply #27 |
29. Bridget |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 11:25 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. I have no personal bone to pick with you.... |
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rebel with a cause (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 11:59 AM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Oh Bridget |
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charlie and algernon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
13. 'Banker to poor' receives Nobel Peace Prize |
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MadAsHellNewYorker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 03:33 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Congrats to Yunus!!!!!! Read his book if you haven't! |
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smirkymonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 01:26 PM Response to Reply #13 |
34. I'm sorry, but something about giving a BANKER a Nobel |
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BridgeTheGap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 02:49 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. I doubt Junus has gotten filthy rich of this enterprise |
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comtec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
15. I hope he really has helped people |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 11:00 PM Response to Original message |
17. I think they are right. When you are trying to lift people up it would |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-11-06 07:51 AM Response to Original message |
18. A good idea as long as the philosophy of our own bankers and |
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rebel with a cause (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-11-06 01:41 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. exactly! |
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comtec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-11-06 03:58 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. I declaired bankrupcy a year before the new law took effect... |
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rebel with a cause (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-11-06 04:42 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. I feel your pain |
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groovedaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
31. Lobbying for the Grameen Bank |
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