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Coffee with Joe 11-15-10: Monetary Sovereignty at Risk

by Peter on November 18th, 2010

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The recent meeting of the G-20 in South Korea yielded little but conflict and platitudes from President Obama, but our boys use the event to discuss international efforts to address the financial crisis.

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Coffee with Joe 11-11-10: The Third Way

by Peter on November 18th, 2010

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Joe point out that the experts seem unaware of the third way, a debt-free monetary system a la the American Monetary Act, which could put us back on the path to prosperity.

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Coffee with Joe 11-4-10: QE2

by Peter on November 12th, 2010

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Joe and Pete discuss Fed Chairman Bernanke’s recent announcement that the Fed will buy $600 Billion in US Treasury securiities between now and the end of June 2012, in particular, how Bernanke avoids characterizing it as “money creation”. Relavent

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Coffee with Joe 10-28-10: Election Next Week

by Peter on November 12th, 2010

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Pete and Joe discuss Obama on Jon Stewart and the phenomenon of the Tea Party as a popular, if misguided, response to the dysfunction of our debt-based monetary system.

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Coffee with Joe 10-21-10: A Poor Excuse for Monetary Policy

by Peter on October 21st, 2010

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The Fed is back in the business of “quantitative monetary easing” which means they are buying US Treasury debt and other financial assets with money they create out of thin air. In today’s Coffee, Joe calls this a failed monetary strategy. It did

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Coffee with Joe 10-11-10: Does Steve Keen Understand Monetary Reform?

by Peter on October 18th, 2010

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Steve Keen claims, in a recent interview, that monetary reform along the lines of the American Monetary Act would not have prevented the financial crisis, which he says was caused by leveraged speculation on assets. Joe claims here that there can be

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Coffee with Joe 10-5-10; Yamaguchi’s Model

by Peter on October 5th, 2010

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Joe and Pete report on Prof. Kaoru Yamaguchi’s system dynamics model of how debt-free money a la the American Monetary Act would perform in the real world.

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Coffee with Joe 9-29-10: Debt Deflation and Monetary Reform

by Peter on October 5th, 2010

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Joe and Pete look forward to meeting Australian economist Steve Keen at the American Monetary Conference this weekend in Chicago, and discussing how the reforms in the American Monetary and Financial Security Act would obviate a “debt-deflation”, or

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Coffee with Joe 9-23-10; A Plea to Kucinich

by Peter on September 24th, 2010

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Joe asks Congressman Dennis Kucinich and Senator Bernie Sanders to enter the American Monetary and Financial Security Act into the US Congress.

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Coffee with Joe 8-26-10: PMR Enough Money without Fractional Reserves?

by Peter on August 29th, 2010

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In this installment, Pete and Joe discuss a common criticism of Full-Resertve banking (100% reserves)—that there wouldn’t be enough money for the banks to loan if they couldn’t create money through the fractional reserve “money multiplier.”

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