Yunus + Cohen => Open Letters to the Treasury

I gave a copy of Creating a World without Poverty to the Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee John McFall MP and I sent it to the Chancellor Alistair Darling MP after having recommended it to him at a public meeting at the RSA.

On the occasion of the Attwood Award, I also gave a copy to Peter Etherden who writes under his pseudonym William Shepherd, also on the history of usury. Peter encouraged me to write Open Letters:

• the one to the Chancellor was inspired by Leonard Cohen whose concert Lilly had invited me to go to. I saw on the news what Lilly had already spotted on the net: the economy is supposedly so bad that the Chancellor had to go to the concert to cheer himself up…
• the reminder to the Chairman has no musical inspiration but here is now a chance for proving Dr. Yunus wrong: maybe institutions CAN deliver what they are supposed to? I have long admired the Chairman’s style of executing his power. Hence I do hope that he will honour our request to investigate the money supply in a long-term perspective.

And I have faith in Leonard Cohen’s inspirations: First We Take Manhattan, then we Take Berlin! After all, Sterling is the bridge between Dollar- and EuroLand! And maybe Sterling quality can be applied even to finance made in the City!

If you are inspired to join our attempts to create a world without poverty via political communications, please visit Stop the “Cash Crumble” to Equalize the “Credit Crunch”.

Yours in the spirit of Leonard Cohen’s magnificent If it Be Your Will,

Sabine