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Imposing personal responsibility on corporate crime directors is part of the essential reforms needed to reboot our financial, social and economic systems on to sustainable footings.  Surveys suggest that there is already wide public support for this.  It is likely to find political support when the building financial crunch reveals the massive capital and budget holes left from 20 years of crony capitalism, political capture, legal forbearance and bailouts to negligent and criminal actors.  This should not be a partisan issue, we all need accountability in the system if it is to function in support of ideals like capitalism, democracy and the rule of law.

I’m also reintroducing the Ending Too Big to Jail Act to hold big bank executives accountable when the banks they lead break the law. If they cheat their customers & crash our economy, Wall Street CEOs should go to jail like everyone else. pic.twitter.com/uRlfxsoJ44

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) April 3, 2019

Danielle was a guest with Kerry Lutz on The Financial Survival Network, talking about recent developments in the world economy and markets.  You can listen to an audio clip of the segment here.
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Here is a snapshot of global growth trends as at April 2019, now the lowest since 2009.

The Global Economy is Slowing! This chart shows the Citi Data Change Indices for emerging markets (orange), the U.S. (blue) and the G10 (green). These series, which measure economic data versus one-year averages, are currently at their lowest levels of the post-crisis period. pic.twitter.com/jDAz13REdl

— Bianco Research (@biancoresearch) April 3, 2019

With financial strain in the masses building, retail sales have been slowing in most countries.  But just as electric vehicle sales are a rare growth star in a world of weakening ICE sales (internal combustion engines), plant-based foods are bucking the trend of weaker food sales.  The trend is clear: where people are offered plant-based options that taste as good or better than the animal-based versions, plant-based demand is growing.  The common theme here is a growing interest in cleaner, healthier options.  See Vegan Beyond Burger Boosts Sales at A&W 10%:

The growth is all down to a few menu changes, including the addition of the vegan Beyond Burger, which launched in restaurants last summer and promptly sold out in several locations on the first day. In Vancouver, some restaurants even reported higher sales of the vegan burger than beef burgers…“I would say that innovation is the biggest driver of our business,” CEO Senegal told Yahoo Finance. “

Plant-based food is also a much-needed hot-bed of innovation and start-ups, like this restaurant in Brooklyn, NY, bringing affordable, healthy food to urban areas where diet-related disease has become an epidemic. Here is a direct video link.