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The Mother of All Free Lunches

by Peter on October 23rd, 2009

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Which would you choose? The money system that confers hundreds of billions of dollars a year to the benefit of the U.S. taxpayer and leaves us with no national debt, or the one that confers $31 Billion a year, maybe, and created our $12 Trillion national debt?

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Kucinich Announcement (video): September 25, 2009

by Peter on October 13th, 2009

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Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio announces to the American Monetary Reform Conference in September, 2009, that he will be introducing the reforms outlined in the American Monetary Act this fall, under the new name, The American Monetary and Financial Security Act. (7 min. video: click below left. )

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“You can either rant, or get results”: meet British monetary reformer Simon Dixon (video interview)

by Peter on September 30th, 2009

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Dixon was one of the most dynamic speakers at the American Monetary Institute’s fifth annual Monetary Reform Conference in Chicago last week, where he presented on the topic: How to talk to Bankers and Students About Monetary Reform. In this interview he discusses how many monetary reformers sabotage their message when they invoke conspiracy theories and blame bankers, claiming: “You can either rant, or get results.”
(To see video, click on “read full article”, below.)

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Reporting Back from the American Monetary Reform Conference in Chicago: Sept. 24-27, 2009

by Peter on September 29th, 2009

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I wasn’t at all sure what to expect. Many of the persons and groups who have diagnosed (correctly, in my mind) the creation of virtually our entire money supply as debt as the principal cause of our current financial instability all too often seem to associate with other ideas that make me uncomfortable, like the Evil Jewish Banker Meme (EJBM), or any of various conspiracy theories (other than my own, of course).

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Breaking News from Monetary Reform Conference

by Peter on September 26th, 2009

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Yesterday, Stephen Zarlenga, director of the American Monetary Institute made a dramatic announcement at the Monetary Reform Conference that Joe and I are attending here in Chicago: Congressman Dennis Kucinich is planning to introduce the American Monetary Act in “the next few weeks.”

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A Solution to the Financial Crisis: Debt-Free Money

by Joe on June 7th, 2009

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From across the political, social and economic spectrum, there is widespread agreement that there is something wrong with the money system in this country. There is not widespread agreement on what that something is.

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