Archive for July, 2010

Coffee with Joe 7-15-10b; PMR The Monetary Authority

by Peter on July 20th, 2010

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A “monetary authority” would be tasked with determining the amount of new money the US Treasury would create each year, if the Program for Monetary Reform (PMR) were implemented.

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Coffee with Joe 7-15-10a: PMR Says No to Gold Standard

by Peter on July 16th, 2010

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Further detail about the document from 1939, “A Program for Monetary Reform” (aka PMR). In this episode, Joe and Pete discuss the section on the problems with the gold standard, and what the authors suggest as an alternative, the “standard of st

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Coffee with Joe 7-8-10: State Banking?

by Peter on July 8th, 2010

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Pete thanks Zarathustra for typing up the “Program for Monetary Reform” which was highlighted in last week’s Coffee with Joe. Then the conversation moves to Bill Still’s interview with Alex Jones a few days ago.  Bill is a founder of the Greenbac

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Coffee with Joe 7-1-10: A Program for Monetary Reform

by Peter on July 2nd, 2010

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Joe introduces the rare 1939 document,  a proposal for debt-free money (Greenbacks) issue by the Federal Government that specifically addresses the monetary authority that would control the amount of money. It also calls for repeal of Fractional

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A Program for Monetary Reform, the 1939 Document

by Peter on July 2nd, 2010

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We have several different file formats of the rare document available, thanks in part to Zarathusthra and Joe who retyped and reformatted the entire paper from Joe’s Xerox copy of the original.  Also, thanks to a frequen

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