Archive for the ‘Current Events’ Category

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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An Interview With Monetary Reformer George Crowell

by Peter on October 18th, 2010

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Canadian monetary reformer Crowell says in this interview with Joe Bongiovanni, “There are enormous possibilities for abundant funding for social justice and environmental needs of all kinds if we were to make use of the money creation power for pub

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Teaching Monetary Reform to Kids

by Peter on October 18th, 2010

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Pete interviews Keith Hauser of Bellingham, Washington about strategies he uses to introduce 7th and 8th graders to monetary reform, at the AMI Conference in Chicago, October 2, 2010.

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An Interview with Monetary Reformer Bob Poteat

by Peter on October 10th, 2010

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Bob discusses how monetary reform would effect the average middle class family in the US.

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Steve Keen on Monetary Reform and Economic Stability

by Peter on October 8th, 2010

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Pete Young of EconomicStability grabbed this interview with Australian Economist Steve Keen, of the blog Debtwatch,  in Chicago, October 2, 2010, where Keen was speaking at the American Monetary Reform Conference. Keen claims “the monetary refor

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Interview with Kaoru Yamaguchi, 10-2-10

by Peter on October 6th, 2010

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Yamaguchi claims that “just by changing the macroeconomic structure from a system of debt into debt-free money we can solve many of the economic problems we are facing, like crises, debt issues, and growth issues.”

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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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