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Politics Has Failed, Now Central Banks Are Failing
Politics Has Failed, Now Central Banks Are Failing With each passing day, we get closer to the shift in the tide that will sweep away this self-serving delusion of the ruling elites like a crumbling sand castle. Those living in revolutionary times are rarely aware of the tumult ahead: in 1766, a mere decade before the […]
Chapter 2: Laws That Make Robbery Legal.
CHAPTER 2: LAWS THAT MAKE ROBBERY LEGAL. A law can be anything from an attempt to establish justice on earth to a device for robbery and murder.[1] Nazi race law was an example of the latter. Most people pay lip service to the idea that laws should be just; but in fact, laws are often made […]
Chapter One: The Money Supply: How It Came to be Created by Banks
CHAPTER ONE: THE MONEY SUPPLY: HOW IT CAME TO BE CREATED BY BANKS. The most important fact in economics today goes unmentioned by most economists and bankers: money is created as debt from banks, and it is cancelled when debts are repaid.[1] I have asked many economists and bankers why this is so seldom mentioned, […]
The Fed Relies Indirectly on the Banks & Cannot Stimulate the Economy Directly
The Fed Relies Indirectly on the Banks & Cannot Stimulate the Economy Directly QUESTION: Hello, Since the Fed ‘created’ ‘money’ after 2008 that was then deposited back at the Fed by the recipient banks ( say,75% of it), it is not easy to see why the Fed is to blame for the credit explosion since 2008- […]
Money: the silent killer
Money: the silent killer In Sweden, which is famously on the way to becoming cash-free, you can find signs in shop windows that say ‘we don’t take cash because electronic payments are better for the environment’. Since cash does require a certain amount of resource use for its production process and transportation, and since in […]
The Degrading Facts of a Fake Money Hole in the Head
The Degrading Facts of a Fake Money Hole in the Head Squishy Fact Finding Mission Today we begin with the facts. But not just the facts; the facts of the facts. We want to better understand just what it is that is provoking today’s ludicrous world. To clarify, we are not after the cold hard […]
We’ll Pay All Those Future Obligations by Impoverishing Everyone (How to Destroy Our Currency In One Easy Lesson)
We’ll Pay All Those Future Obligations by Impoverishing Everyone (How to Destroy Our Currency In One Easy Lesson) The only way to pay all these future obligations is by creating new money. I’ve been focusing on inflation, which is more properly understood as the loss of purchasing power of a currency, which when taken to extremes destroys […]
Confronting the money-power elite
Confronting the money-power elite Those who control the creation and allocation of money are able to control every other aspect of society. Shouldn’t that be us? Credit: Flickr/Liz West. CC BY 2.0. The world today is controlled by a small elite group that has been increasingly concentrating power and wealth in their own hands. There […]
Three Crazy Things We Now Accept as “Normal”
Three Crazy Things We Now Accept as “Normal” How can central banks “retrain” participants while maintaining their extreme policies of stimulus? Human habituate very easily to new circumstances, even extreme ones. What we accept as “normal” now may have been considered bizarre, extreme or unstable a few short years ago. Three economic examples come to […]
We Live in Revolutionary Times
We Live in Revolutionary Times Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the sun. The most recent, and perhaps most important, network challenge to hierarchy comes with the advent of virtual currencies and payment systems like Bitcoin. Since ancient times, states have reaped considerable benefits from monopolizing or at least regulating the money created within their […]
ECB v the Federal Reserve – Different Animals Altogether
ECB v the Federal Reserve – Different Animals Altogether QUESTION: Do you you really think Trump would let the Central Banks Default? He said we would write off PoteRicos debt maybe he plans to write everything off can he do that? If this really did happen wouldn’t the dollar be worthless? S ANSWER: It seems […]
Our Economies Run On Housing Bubbles
Our Economies Run On Housing Bubbles Rene Magritte Memory 1948We are witnessing the demise of the world’s two largest economic power blocks, the US and EU. Given deteriorating economic conditions on both sides of the Atlantic, which have been playing out for many years but were so far largely kept hidden from view by unprecedented […]
A Scam Too Far
A Scam Too Far One of the more politically frustrating aspects of the last decade in the West is the unwillingness of the powers-that-be to address the radical dysfunction that underlies Western political economy. As fact, microcosm and metaphor, the ‘scandal’ of Wells Fargo bank creating millions of fake accounts, charging its customers for the […]
Chapter 7: Secrets, Ignorance and Lies: Money, Credit and Debt
CHAPTER 7: SECRETS, IGNORANCE AND LIES: MONEY, CREDIT AND DEBT. “The tyranny of fraud is not less oppressive than that of force.” John Taylor of Caroline, Virginia, 1814. Our system of money-creation was invented and developed during a time when war was seen as glorious, when the strong robbing and managing the weak was admired as […]