Archive for the ‘History’ Category

The Mother of All Free Lunches

by Peter on October 23rd, 2009

Filed under: Current Events, Featured, History, Pete's Blog | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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?

11 Comments | Add Yours

“Wealth doesn’t come from a bank…” Monetary Reformer Will Abram

by Peter on October 7th, 2009

Filed under: History, Videos | Tags: , , , , , ,

“Wealth does not come form a bank; it does not come from any money manipulation; it comes from us.” In this 6 minute video, Will briefly talks about growing up during the depression in Alberta Canada, before describing Canada’s experience of deb

No Comments | Add Yours

Joe’s Montpelier Talk, 4.8.09 Part 8: Milton Friedman

by Peter on August 21st, 2009

Filed under: History, Videos | Tags: , , ,

In Part 8 (of 9), Joe highlights Milton Friedman’s opposition of money creation by private banks by highlighting the following quote: “A reform of the monetary and banking system to eliminate both the private creation and destruction of money and

No Comments | Add Yours

Joe’s Montpelier Talk, 4.8.09 Part 7: Robert Hemphill Quote

by Peter on August 21st, 2009

Filed under: History, Videos | Tags: , , , , ,

Under the “100 percent-reserve” lending system proposal, again banks would lend money after it was created and deposited into the banks by their depositors.

No Comments | Add Yours

Joe’s Montpelier Talk, 4.8.09 Part 6: The Chicago Plan of 1933

by Peter on August 21st, 2009

Filed under: History, Videos | Tags: , ,

FDR came to power in 1933, more than three years after the 1929 Crash. The national banking system was on the verge of total collapse, despite the Federal Reserve banking system being 20 years old. Fortunately, after the Crash, many economists saw th

No Comments | Add Yours

Joe’s Montpelier Talk, 4.8.09 Part 5: The Federal Reserve Act of 1913

by Peter on August 21st, 2009

Filed under: History, Videos | Tags: , ,

No Comments | Add Yours

Joe’s Montpelier Talk, 4.8.09 Part 4: Post Civil War

by Peter on August 21st, 2009

Filed under: History, Videos | Tags: , ,

No Comments | Add Yours

Ronnie Phillips Articles Support Economic Stability

by Peter on July 15th, 2009

Filed under: History | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Ronnie Phillips, professor of economics at Colorado State, wrote one of the most important books on the debt-free money bookshelf, The Chicago Plan and New Deal banking Reform (1995, M.E. Sharpe Inc.) Ronnie had a recent op-ed in The American Bank

No Comments | Add Yours

Joe’s Montpelier Talk, 4.8.09, Part 3: Lincoln’s Greenbacks

by Peter on June 18th, 2009

Filed under: History, Videos | Tags: , ,

Joe covers US Monetary History from Andrew Jackson, through Lincoln’s great experiment with debt-free money, the original Greenback.

No Comments | Add Yours

A Solution to the Financial Crisis: Debt-Free Money

by Joe on June 7th, 2009

Filed under: Current Events, Featured, History | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

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.

No Comments | Add Yours