Published on Nov 28, 2016 Detailed Index – Professor Richard Werner’s Talk: 1 – Why is banking so important for the economy, society and the sustainable development of regions and communities? 2 – What causes the recurring boom-bust cycles and crises? 3 – What policies or banking systems have historically been most successful in avoiding… Read More
“If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse a child.” This chilling statement is made by a lawyer who represented many victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Boston in the 2015 movie “Spotlight.” Child abuse persisted because abusive priests were reassigned, victims were silent or agreed… Read More
Professor Richard A. Werner has conclusively shown that the invisible hands of the modern market are commercial banks which create money out of nothing!! (Can banks individually create money out of nothing? — The theories and the empirical evidence, How do banks create money, and why can other firms not do the same? An explanation for the… Read More
Reproduced from: http://thenextsystem.org/the-new-economy-a-living-earth-system-model/ The New Economy: A Living Earth System Model David Korten | August 10, 2016 Download the PDF This paper by David Korten, published alongside three others, is one of many proposals for a systemic alternative we have published or will be publishing here at the Next System Project. You can read it below, or download the PDF.… Read More
Reproduced from: http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/money-print-your-own/beyond-greed-and-scarcity Beyond Greed and Scarcity Few people have worked in and on the money system in as many different capacities as Bernard Lietaer. He spent five years at the Central Bank in Belgium, and he was president of Belgium’s Electronic Payment System. Bernard Lietaer posted Jun 30, 1997 He has helped developing countries improve… Read More
Published on Apr 15, 2014 Mike Lofgren, a congressional staff member for 28 years, joins Bill Moyers to talk about what he calls Washington’s “Deep State,” in which elected and unelected figures collude to protect and serve powerful vested interests. “It is how we had deregulation, financialization of the economy, the Wall Street bust, the… Read More
Reproduced from: http://www.lietaer.com/category/monetary-literacy/ http://www.lietaer.com/2010/09/what-is-money/ What is money? Most people tend to regard money as “a thing” because that is usually the way it appears to us (as paper, coins, checks, credit cards etc). And yet, stranded on a desert island, we would quickly discover that while our knife remains useful as a knife, whatever cash or… Read More
http://itsourmoney.podbean.com/e/it’s-our-money-with-ellen-brown-–-you’ve-been-strip-mined-–-042716/ (McMurtry’s interview starts at 28:00) Economies are life forces – interdependent systems built upon the facts of life and living. “Life capital” as Ellen’s noted guest Dr. John McMurtry says, is at the heart of true economic reckoning, and money is merely one derivative. McMurtry describes Capitalism as being in a cancerous stage in which… Read More
Published on Apr 10, 2016 https://www.thersa.org/events/2016/02/why-we-should-own-the-banks/ Wednesday 17th February 2016 at 13:00 – 14:00 at Durham Street Auditorium, RSA House Banks create money – nearly all of it. Should we recapture the sovereign power to create money by reclaiming ownership of the banks? Today virtually the entire circulating money supply consists of bank credit issued as… Read More
Excerpt taken from: http://www.theburningplatform.com/2012/12/03/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-the-truth/ “Eyes blinded by the fog of things cannot see truth. Ears deafened by the din of things cannot hear truth. Brains bewildered by the whirl of things cannot think truth. Hearts deadened by the weight of things cannot feel truth. Throats choked by the dust of things cannot speak truth.” ― Harald… Read More
