This is the first installment of Coffee with Joe, our weekly video blog, sometimes called a diavlog. Feel free to comment!
Archive for August, 2009
Joe’s Montpelier Talk, 4.8.09 Part 9: The Solution
In the final segment from Joe’s Montpelier talk, he recommends the American Monetary Act (PDF), a draft of legislation being compiled by the American Monetary Institute as the most workable solution to the current financial crisis, and also the transparency legislation proposed by Kucinich.
Joe’s Montpelier Talk, 4.8.09 Part 8: Milton Friedman
In Part 8 (of 9), Joe highlights Milton Friedman’s opposition of money creation by private banks by highlighting the following quote: “A reform of the monetary and banking system to eliminate both the private creation and destruction of money and discretionary control of the quantity of money by the central bank authority. The private creation [...]
Joe’s Montpelier Talk, 4.8.09 Part 7: Robert Hemphill Quote
Under the “100 percent-reserve” lending system proposal, again banks would lend money after it was created and deposited into the banks by their depositors.
Joe’s Montpelier Talk, 4.8.09 Part 6: The Chicago Plan of 1933
FDR came to power in 1933, more than three years after the 1929 Crash. The national banking system was on the verge of total collapse, despite the Federal Reserve banking system being 20 years old. Fortunately, after the Crash, many economists saw the need for an alternative to the private Fed and it’s boom-and-bust prone [...]
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