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Occupy the Money System: Coffee with Joe 12-1-11

by Peter on December 2nd, 2011

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Joe and Pete survey the changes in the economic and political landscape since their last video; particularly the Occupy movement.

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A Solution to the Money Crisis: Joe to speak about Kucinich Monetary Reform Bill in Montpelier Sept. 14

by Peter on September 9th, 2011

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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.

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PDF of Yamaguchi’s “Workings of a Public Money System”

by Peter on August 23rd, 2011

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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.

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NEED Act Benefit to the States: Coffee with Joe 1-20-11

by Peter on January 21st, 2011

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Pete calculates how much money might be created in one year in the US under the NEED Act and comes up with a figure of $423 billion (3% of the $14.1 Trillion US GDP in 2009).

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A True Cause for Celebration !! Champagne with Joe 12-21-10

by Peter on December 26th, 2010

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Joe and Pete celebrate this groundbreaking news: Dennis Kucinich has submitted the first comprehensive monetary reform act to Congress in nearly 90 years: the N.E.E.D. Act, (the National Employment Emergency Defense Act).

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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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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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