Visar inlägg med etikett Monetary Reform. Visa alla inlägg
Visar inlägg med etikett Monetary Reform. Visa alla inlägg
lördag 17 augusti 2013
torsdag 15 augusti 2013
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.
Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it
http://www.amazon.com/Debt-The-First-000-Years/dp/1612191290
Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it
http://www.amazon.com/Debt-The-First-000-Years/dp/1612191290
David Graeber
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber
torsdag 17 januari 2013
How Goldman Sachs Helped Mask Greece's Debt
Nick Dunbar, author of 'The Devil's Derivatives', reveals how the country turned to investment bank Goldman Sachs for help getting around the deficit rules.
In his report for Newsnight, some of those who did the deal, talk publicly for the first time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=07-hA9DW-Po
In his report for Newsnight, some of those who did the deal, talk publicly for the first time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=07-hA9DW-Po
Abby Martin talks to with historian, Webster Tarpley, about the looming fiscal cliff and the ongoing crisis in Syria.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zKq2xzIg8jM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zKq2xzIg8jM
söndag 23 december 2012
Expose Cinema: Bill Still
Expose Cinema presents an interview with Bill Still. Featured on the program is a clip from his latest documentary film "The Secret of Oz."
Mr. Still is an author and documentary film maker, best known for his documentary "The Money Masters" and it covers the history of money and the Federal Reserve System.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSL2OO-RuP0
Mr. Still is an author and documentary film maker, best known for his documentary "The Money Masters" and it covers the history of money and the Federal Reserve System.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSL2OO-RuP0
lördag 15 december 2012
G. Edward Griffin - The Collectivist Conspiracy
G. Edward Griffin is a writer and documentary film producer with many successful titles to his credit. He is well known because of his talent for researching difficult topics and presenting them in clear terms that all can understand. He has dealt with such diverse subjects as archaeology and ancient Earth history, the Federal Reserve System and international banking, terrorism, internal subversion, the history of taxation, U.S. foreign policy, the science and politics of cancer therapy, the Supreme Court, and the United Nations. Mr. Griffin is a graduate of the University of Michigan where he majored in speech and communications. He is also the creator of the Reality Zone Audio Archives, and is President of American Media, a publishing and video production company. Don’t miss this excellent hour as we cover the collectivist conspiracy, including the ideology and nature of a collectivist. We’ll hear about Cecil Rhodes, and the secret society most have no clue about. But first Mr. Griffin explains how the anger of the Occupy movement was misdirected. We also address the subject of capitalism. G. Edward explains how collectivism, replaced capitalism in America a long time ago. We’ll cover the model of collectivism and how it manifests. Mr. Griffin warns of "full term collectivism, "100% government and 0% freedom that will end in totalitarianism. We’ll also talk about Soviet Russia, communism and draw parallels with American and Europe today. The hour ends discussing people’s fear of freedom. G. Edward Griffin offers a solution in the end.
http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2012/12/RIR-121213.php
http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2012/12/RIR-121213.php
lördag 8 december 2012
Debt Free Money
An interview with Bill Still, film-maker of 'The Money Masters' and 'The Secret of Oz' explains why we are going through a financial crisis and offers his solutions to the ever increasing debt curve.
Sedan ang Austrian School
The first 2 minutes of Max Keiser's latest is so interesting regarding the von Mises Institute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hBHcpxxsq8w#!
Many are questioning now -- for the first time -- the previously accepted dogma that gold is good. Why do smart folks like Peter Schiff, Ed Griffin and Ron Paul refuse to take a fresh look at this question when they are spouting the same philosophy that J.P. Morgan espoused 100 years ago.
My take on Ed Griffin is that he is a patriot and well-intended. He, like Ron Paul, grew up at that time when the von Mises folks were in their ascendency. Their real agenda was hidden. Schiff, Griffin and Paul would have to admit they were wrong. They would have to admit that the von Mises/old school Libertarians were -- at best -- nothing but anarchists -- and worse than that, plutocrats.
The von Mises folk believe that the average person is too stupid to effectively participate in self-governance, so, therefore, all governance should default to non-governance??? History clearly shows that a state of non-governance will quickly default into the hands of the few -- the crown and its banks -- plutocracy. In either case, they do not believe in humanity's thousand-year great experiment in self-governance.
Freedom is a delicate balance between too much governance and too little. What the von Mises folk won't admit is that serfdom exists at either end of that balance. Von Mises folk don't realize that the anarchism professed openly by Prof. Murray Rothbard & company does not yield maximal human political freedom. Nature abhors a vacuum. Every anarchy in world history is followed in short order by tyranny and maximal centralization of power.
Ed Griffin and Ron Paul would rather go to their graves than admit they had swallowed this poison pill of the last 4 decades, hook, line and sinker.
I'm studying J.P. Morgan and the Rockefellers right now. Morgan constantly supported the gold standard calling it "sound money." He also considered himself a pirate -- oops, I mean a "privateer" -- in the service of the British Crown and the City. That's why he called all 4 of his yachts, "Corsair", and painted them black. Not surprisingly, he stopped short of flying the "Jolly Roger", however.
Gold money is the ultimate centralization of the money power. Yes, it IS sound money. The quantity is easily controlled, but it does not democratize the money power to operate to the benefit of we, the people. It centralizes it into the hands of those few best able to buy up the commodity serving as the monetary base -- gold. This would, in fact, be the bankers.
I believe that a sovereign money must serve the public interest -- by definition.
I believe that gold money does not serve the public interest.
I believe power should be decentralized to the maximum extent which is politically practical. Too much decentralization slips over into anarchy and yields the same as too much centralization in the first place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hBHcpxxsq8w#!
Many are questioning now -- for the first time -- the previously accepted dogma that gold is good. Why do smart folks like Peter Schiff, Ed Griffin and Ron Paul refuse to take a fresh look at this question when they are spouting the same philosophy that J.P. Morgan espoused 100 years ago.
My take on Ed Griffin is that he is a patriot and well-intended. He, like Ron Paul, grew up at that time when the von Mises folks were in their ascendency. Their real agenda was hidden. Schiff, Griffin and Paul would have to admit they were wrong. They would have to admit that the von Mises/old school Libertarians were -- at best -- nothing but anarchists -- and worse than that, plutocrats.
The von Mises folk believe that the average person is too stupid to effectively participate in self-governance, so, therefore, all governance should default to non-governance??? History clearly shows that a state of non-governance will quickly default into the hands of the few -- the crown and its banks -- plutocracy. In either case, they do not believe in humanity's thousand-year great experiment in self-governance.
Freedom is a delicate balance between too much governance and too little. What the von Mises folk won't admit is that serfdom exists at either end of that balance. Von Mises folk don't realize that the anarchism professed openly by Prof. Murray Rothbard & company does not yield maximal human political freedom. Nature abhors a vacuum. Every anarchy in world history is followed in short order by tyranny and maximal centralization of power.
Ed Griffin and Ron Paul would rather go to their graves than admit they had swallowed this poison pill of the last 4 decades, hook, line and sinker.
I'm studying J.P. Morgan and the Rockefellers right now. Morgan constantly supported the gold standard calling it "sound money." He also considered himself a pirate -- oops, I mean a "privateer" -- in the service of the British Crown and the City. That's why he called all 4 of his yachts, "Corsair", and painted them black. Not surprisingly, he stopped short of flying the "Jolly Roger", however.
Gold money is the ultimate centralization of the money power. Yes, it IS sound money. The quantity is easily controlled, but it does not democratize the money power to operate to the benefit of we, the people. It centralizes it into the hands of those few best able to buy up the commodity serving as the monetary base -- gold. This would, in fact, be the bankers.
I believe that a sovereign money must serve the public interest -- by definition.
I believe that gold money does not serve the public interest.
I believe power should be decentralized to the maximum extent which is politically practical. Too much decentralization slips over into anarchy and yields the same as too much centralization in the first place.
So Conclution:
In a world where gold is money the wealthy has the political power
In a world there credit is money (as it is today) the banks has the political power
In a world where the goverment creates is own debt free money and the system is ruled by law (equal to all) the people has the power.
söndag 2 december 2012
Monetary Refom - Fractional Reserve Lending
Much is discussed right now about how to reform the monetary system
given the evident flaws we now see appearing in front of our eyes.
Many, many times in history has the economy gotten in to very deep
problems after it has gone back to a e.g. a gold standard. In fact it is not
the fact money today is a fiat rather than something of worth that constitutes
the problem. The real big problem we need to get away from is the privatization
and centralization of money via the private banking interests and first and foremost
get rid of the completely and utterly insane fractional banking system. This as
it allows for private banking interests to create booms and busts (the so
called business cycle) in the economy by the creation of credit that in fact is
money out of this air and that then banks have the nerve also charge interest on that fraudulent
behavior.
Bottom line:
in a world where money is defined as welth e.g. gold and or silver - the wealthy has the power
In a world where money is defined as credit, that is it is loaned in to existens via the fractional banking system as it is today - the private bankers rule the world.
The people rule in a world where the creation of money is made debt free via the goverment in a decentralized faschion far out of reach of centralised private hands.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbq7NRnCQDM&list=UUhZRoC9bMegevAxFmee1oSA&index=9&feature=plcp
onsdag 28 november 2012
Svenskar ska göra kontokorten till historia
Snabba, säkra mobila betalningar som rundar kortföretagen och halverar handlarnas avgifter. Det är receptet när svenska Seamless i dag lanserar systemet som ska revolutionera betalmarknaden. "Vi mördar Visa och Mastercard", säger vd Peter Fredell.
http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.418432/svenskar-ska-gora-kontokorten-till-historia
SEQR mobile payment in action!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DEBJbDrj2y4
http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.418432/svenskar-ska-gora-kontokorten-till-historia
SEQR mobile payment in action!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DEBJbDrj2y4
Monetary Reform - The no one issue to deal with
Vetenskapens värld granskar ekonomivetenskapen och den pågående skuldkrisen
Del 14 av 18. Hur kunde världens ledande ekonomer missa att vi var på väg mot den största finansiella kollapsen sen 1930-talet? Vetenskapens värld granskar ekonomivetenskapen och den pågående skuldkrisen. Enligt en växande skara kritiker ledde häpnadsväckande brister i de ekonomiska modellerna fram till krisen. I centrum står vår tids enorma finanssektor. Programledare: Victoria Dyring.
Systemfel som hotar världen
The success of the central banking scheme developed into a far-reaching plan described by President Clinton’s mentor, Georgetown Professor Carroll Quigley, “to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank….sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the levels of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.”
Hur fungerar egentligen vårt samhällssystem? Bankerna tjänar stora pengar samtidigt som vanliga människor lever på lånade medel. Vi möter tänkare som ger oss sin bild av världsekonomin och människans situation i vårt globala samhälle. Många som kommer till tals är övertygade kapitalister som kritiserar kapitalismen. Hur kan lösningar inför framtiden se ut?Samtidigt som vanliga människor lever på lånade medel. Vi möter tänkare som ger oss sin bild av världsekonomin och människans situation i vårt globala samhälle. Många som kommer till tals är övertygade kapitalister som kritiserar kapitalismen. Hur kan lösningar inför framtiden se ut?
http://urplay.se/170919
Then a film that really foresaw all this financial chrisis unfolding as it was produced already in the 1990s:
Then a film that really foresaw all this financial chrisis unfolding as it was produced already in the 1990s:
The Money Masters ~ Full Movie
More about the Money Masters
THE MONEY MASTERS is a 3 1/2 hour non-fiction, historical documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure. The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money. The development of fractional reserve banking practices in the 17th century brought to a cunning sophistication the secret techniques initially used by goldsmiths fraudulently to accumulate wealth. With the formation of the privately-owned Bank of England in 1694, the yoke of economic slavery to a privately-owned “central” bank was first forced upon the backs of an entire nation, not removed but only made heavier with the passing of the three centuries to our day. Nation after nation has fallen prey to this cabal of international central bankers.
The success of the central banking scheme developed into a far-reaching plan described by President Clinton’s mentor, Georgetown Professor Carroll Quigley, “to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank….sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the levels of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.”
Several short-lived attempts to impose the central banking scheme on the United States were defeated by the patriotic efforts of Presidents Madison, Jefferson, Jackson, Van Buren and Lincoln. But with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, America was firmly lashed to the same yoke, so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the masses a yoke little better than slavery itself. That yoke inevitably grows heavier with ever-compounding interest, and totals over $20 trillion of debt owed by the American people today ($80,000 per American) ultimately to these bankers.
This vast accumulation of wealth concentrates immense power and despotic economic domination in the hands of the few central bankers “who are able to govern credit and its allotment, for this reason supplying, so to speak, the life-blood to the entire economic body, and grasping, as it were, in their hands the very soul of the economy so that no one dare breathe against their will.”
Then if the above is the ultimate goal then it's very obviouse why in the Euro project there is this indeed very weird Maastricht Criteria:
http://intheendwerealldebt.blogspot.se/2012/02/euro-convergence-criteria-also-known-as.html
Given all of this info as a backdrop one really see the pattern clear as daylight as its happening:
tisdag 27 november 2012
Bankerna tjänar miljarder på dold kortavgift
Flera försök görs för att gå runt de dolda kortavgifterna. Just nu pågår olika pilotstudier av betalning via mobilen. Dagligvaruhandelsbolaget Axfood har nyligen börjat använda betallösningen Seamless som möjliggör betalning utan mellanhänder. En rad andra liknande lösningar diskureras och även om dessa skiljer sig åt så innebär de flesta lägre eller inga kostnader för handlarna – vilket välkomnas från HUI:s sida.
http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/bankerna-tjanar-miljarder-pa-dold-kortavgift
http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/bankerna-tjanar-miljarder-pa-dold-kortavgift
torsdag 1 november 2012
Kontanthanteringen - Ännu ett privatiserings fiasko
Läs här och begrunda hur Riksbanken genom sitt beslut att 2004 avsäga sig ansvaret för Sveriges kontanthantering för att istället lägga ut detta på bankerna i realiteten har orsakat en veritabel tornado av extremt våld och kriminalitet:
http://www.danowsky.se/data/f_58_Regeringens%20senf%C3%A4rdighet%20b%C3%A4ddade%20f%C3%B6r%20v%C3%A4stbergar%C3%A5net%20090926.pdf
http://www.danowsky.se/data/f_58_Regeringens%20senf%C3%A4rdighet%20b%C3%A4ddade%20f%C3%B6r%20v%C3%A4stbergar%C3%A5net%20090926.pdf
onsdag 26 september 2012
Doubts on Saudi Capacity May Keep Oil Volatile
Oil prices are likely to remain volatile over the next year, analysts say, amid worries that Saudi Arabia has become less able to pump the global market out of any extraordinary disruptions to supply.
Saudi Arabia and some smaller Gulf oil producers have stepped in to cover recent shortfalls, but analysts are increasingly skeptical about whether these countries have the capacity to shield Western consumers against a new oil shock.
"The cushion to cope with supply shortfalls looks uncomfortably thin, especially in light of heightened geopolitical risks in the Middle East and Africa," Deutsche Bank said in a report Friday.
Proff Kjell Aleklett - Will Saudi Arabia Become an Oil Importer by 2030?
the volume of oil available for importation by the OECD nations in 2020 will contract by half compared to what was available in 2005 when “Peak Oil Exports” occurred
http://aleklett.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/will-saudi-arabia-become-oil-importer-by-2030-new-blogg/
http://aleklett.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/will-saudi-arabia-become-oil-importer-by-2030-new-blogg/
onsdag 19 september 2012
Bank Of Japan Increases Asset Purchases By Y10 Trillion, Total Program Now Y80 Trillion, Total Debt Still Y1 Quadrillion
It seems like only yesterday that we were lamenting "Einstein rolling over in his grave" as a result of the BOJ's latest increase in its asset purchase program from Y65 to Y70 trillion, although technically it was 5 months ago on April 27. We would excuse Einstein if he were doing cartwheels in his grave right about now, following the BOJ's latest attempt to keep doing what has definitvely failed for 30 years, hoping this time it will be different, as a result of the just announced latest expansion in the asset purchase program's size by yet another Y10 trillion, this time to a total of Y80 trillion. The expansion impacts only JGBs and T-Bills, both of which will be monetized by a further Y5 trillion. Putting this in perspective, Japan's total public debt is Y1 quadrillion, and counting very fast. All other components of the Japanese LSAP program, including CP, Corporate Bonds, ETFs and REITs (yes, unlike the Fed, the BOJ is quite open about its equity and corporate bond purchases) remain the same. Bottom line, just as we predicted back in July 2009, the global race to debase continues unabated, and as a result of QEternity will merely accelerate until the only true currency is gold tungsten.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/bank-japan-increases-asset-purchases-y10-trillion-total-program-now-y80-trillion
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/bank-japan-increases-asset-purchases-y10-trillion-total-program-now-y80-trillion
Thanks to the Fed's QEternity, BOJ's extra easing has zero impact
Debt crisis: central bank action is work of the devil, says Germany's Jens Weidmann
The head of Germany’s Bundesbank has raised eyebrows across Europe after he appeared to compare Mario Draghi’s bond buying programme with the "devil’s work".
tisdag 18 september 2012
Gerald Celente - Todd Feinburg, WRKO - September 17, 2012
The Trends Journal® is the World's #1 source for the most important trends that are shaping the future. The Trends Journal® shows you how these trends will affect your life, how to profit from them, and what to do to avoid pitfalls. Regardless of business or profession, the Trends Journal® provides insights, strategies and opportunities to help you navigate these treacherous, unprecedented times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrlg14BRPCM&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrlg14BRPCM&feature=player_embedded#!
The March to $200+ Oil - Expected over the next 2-4 years
Executive Summary
- Why pressures to the downside have less impact when the global economy is weak
- Why oil's new floor is $80
- The 'upside risk' story for oil prices
- Why prices will march up to the $150-175 range over the next 2-4 years (with increasing sensitivity to spikes of over $200+ per barrel)
If you have not yet read Part I: The Repricing of Oil, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
I encourage others to read the entire recent paper on Nominal GDP (NGDP) Targeting by Michael Woodford (recently delivered at Jackson Hole) or to simply read its coverage, either by Joe Weisenthal at Business Insider or Paul Krugman at the New York Times. In short, I take the appearance of the Woodford paper(link opens to PDF) as the inevitable next-step solution to the problem of unpayable debt and scarce resources. By loudly and flagrantly voicing a policy pursuit of inflation, Nominal GDP Targeting (which has been discussed for some time in economic circles) would be the next iteration of behavioral prodding in Western economies.
More importantly, the growing acceptance of NGDP targeting in policy circles simplifies the battle that began a decade ago: the struggle to counter emerging scarcity of natural resources with the provision of greater and greater amounts of cheap credit. Within the contours of this battle lies the answer as to whether oil’s next major move is downward, in a deflationary collapse, as global demand vanishes in a new economic crisis; or whether oil’s next major move is higher, as the five billion people in the developing world pull the OECD along in a new expansion.
Don't Count on Revolution in Oil Supply
Much as all the stakeholders in the energy industry would like to be optimistic, it isn't an oil glut by 2020 that is keeping oil prices as high as they are. It is the reality that the oil sector has been pushed to the limit of its capabilities and that this difficult challenge will dominate energy markets for the rest of the decade.
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/9411
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/9411
Prenumerera på:
Inlägg (Atom)