Wednesday, Dec. 07, 2011
A Financial Body Count
NICE, FRANCE — Anti-G-20 activists played dead to make a statement against globalization during the annual summit of finance ministers and central bank governors in November. In an area they roped off, as if for real police business, their sign read, "Scene de Crimes Financiers," or Financial Crime Scene. The general message was that they wanted leaders of those 20 powerful countries — from the U.S. to China — to think about people, rather than banks and markets.