Joe asks the questions of Ben Bernanke that Scott Pelley missed in the recent 60 Minutes interview; then extends those questions to Larry Summers who warned of a double dip recession if we didn’t pass the tax compromise before the US Congress right now.
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Coffee with Joe 11-15-10: Monetary Sovereignty at Risk
The recent meeting of the G-20 in South Korea yielded little but conflict and platitudes from President Obama, but our boys use the event to discuss international efforts to address the financial crisis.
Coffee with Joe 11-11-10: The Third Way
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.
Coffee with Joe 11-4-10: QE2
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
Coffee with Joe 10-28-10: Election Next Week
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.
Coffee with Joe 10-21-10: A Poor Excuse for Monetary Policy
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
An Interview With Monetary Reformer George Crowell
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
Teaching Monetary Reform to Kids
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.
Coffee with Joe 10-11-10: Does Steve Keen Understand Monetary Reform?
Steve Keen claims, in a recent interview, that monetary reform along the lines of the American Monetary Act would not have prevented the financial crisis, which he says was caused by leveraged speculation on assets. Joe claims here that there can be
An Interview with Monetary Reformer Bob Poteat
Bob discusses how monetary reform would effect the average middle class family in the US.
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