Joe and Pete discuss Fractional reserve banking again: Paul Krugman’s article from October, Bernie Sander’s inquiries into the financial crisis, and finally, some 90 year old wisdom from Frederick Soddy.
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Occupy the Money System: Coffee with Joe 12-1-11
Joe and Pete survey the changes in the economic and political landscape since their last video; particularly the Occupy movement.
Interview with Yamaguchi at AMI Conference
Joe Bongiovanni interviews the man behind the best economic model of a debt-free money economy, at the American Monetary Institute Conference in Chicago, 10-1-11.
Reforming the Money System to Solve the Debt Crisis
This is a video of Joe’s presentation in Montpelier VT September 14, 2011 (44 minutes).
Kucinich Bill Bullet Points
The three legs the Kucinich Bill: HR 6550 the National Emergency Employment Defense Act: 1) End the private creation and destruction of money through fractional reserve banking, and replace it with full-reserve banking. 2) Replace money supply w
Vermont, the Mouse that Could Roar; Coffee with Joe 9-8-11
Joe will be speaking again in Montpelier Sept. 14, 2011 at the Pavilion Auditorium, trying to get the audience to encourage the VT congressional delegation to support Kucinich’s monetary reform bill, the NEED Act.
A Solution to the Money Crisis: Joe to speak about Kucinich Monetary Reform Bill in Montpelier Sept. 14
But those of us who dare to dream of a world without war or starvation, where humans and nature find a balance, need to listen to Joe when he says that you can’t have any of those things if you don’t fix the money system.
PDF of Yamaguchi’s “Workings of a Public Money System”
Being intensified by the recent financial crisis in 2008, debt crises seem to be looming ahead among many OECD countries due to the runaway accumulation of government debts. This paper first explores them as a systemic failure of the current debt money system. Secondly, with an introduction of open macroeconomies, it examines how the current system can cope with the liquidation of government debt, and obtains that the liquidation of debts triggers recessions, unemployment and foreign economic recessions contagiously.
What’s the Problem for the Chartalists? Coffee with Joe, 7-12-11
Joe and Pete discuss Australian chartalist Bill Mitchell’s blog entry from last December criticizing the Kucinich monetary reform bill called the NEED Act. Dr. Yamaguchi’s systems dynamics model.
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