Reform the Money

GUEST: Michael Hudson has had a long, varied, and distinguished career as a Wall Street insider, leading economist, expert on financial history, and Research Professor at the University of Missouri. He's also an author, consultant, head of a Harvard-based economic and financial history group, and president of the Institute for the Study of Long Term Economic Trends (INSLET). In 1972, Hudson's important book "Super Imperialism" was published. It was updated in a 2003 edition that's every bit as relevant now. His book and mid-June article will be discussed, "De-Dollarization: Dismantling America's Financial-Military Empire." Download Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com Source: Republic Broadcasting Network Aired: 5/8/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

Part 2: David Korten is the author of the 2009 book: "Agenda for a New Economy" and chair of the board of YES Magazine. He is probably best known for his famous anti-globalization book: When Corporations Rule the World. He argues that pouring trillions of dollars in bail-out money into the Wall Street institutions that created the crisis does nothing to repair the failed economic system. In this speech, given in March 2009 at the NW regional conference of Veterans for Peace, he analyzes two major flaws of the current economic system and points to ways to replace them. One is the monetary system, the other the concept of ever increasing growth, measured as GDP. Download David Korten's website is http://www.davidkorten.org Source: TUC Radio Aired: 4/29/09 12:10 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

Part 1: David Korten is the author of the 2009 book: "Agenda for a New Economy" and chair of the board of YES Magazine. He is probably best known for his famous anti-globalization book: When Corporations Rule the World. He argues that pouring trillions of dollars in bail-out money into the Wall Street institutions that created the crisis does nothing to repair the failed economic system. In this speech, given in March 2009 at the NW regional conference of Veterans for Peace, he analyzes two major flaws of the current economic system and points to ways to replace them. One is the monetary system, the other the concept of ever increasing growth, measured as GDP. Download David Korten's website is http://www.davidkorten.org Source: TUC Radio Aired: 4/29/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

Tom Greco is a community and monetary economist, writer, networker, and consultant, who for three decades has been working at the leading edge of transformational restructuring. He is regarded as a leading expert in monetary theory and history, credit clearing systems, community economic development and complementary currencies. He is currently Director of the Community Information Resource Center , a US non-profit networking hub, which provides information access and administrative support for efforts in community improvement, social justice and sustainability. Tom Greco is in New Zealand as the keynote speaker for the Community Currencies Conference being held in Whanganui April 17 - 19. His new book, The End of Money and the Future of Civilization, is to be released this month (Chelsea Books). His previous book, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender, is available from the Living Economies Educational Trust. Out of all the conversations about relocalization and community resilience, the conversations about local currencies and alternative, people-centred economics may well be the most important of all and have the biggest bearing on how communities survive or not as the world financial system implodes. Download Tom Greco's website is http://www.reinventingmoney.com Source: Radio4All Aired: 4/18/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

Interview with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. We discuss the US balance of payments trade deficit which creates US credit to finance the US national debt and war abroad; Russian economic shock therapy as the final stage of the cold war; the real estate bubble; permanent war and the inevitable collapse of the current US dominated global economic system. Download Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com Source: KPFA Guns & Butter Aired: 4/15/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

GUEST: Michael Hudson has had a long, varied, and distinguished career as a Wall Street insider, leading economist, expert on financial history, and Research Professor at the University of Missouri. He's also an author, consultant, head of a Harvard-based economic and financial history group, and president of the Institute for the Study of Long Term Economic Trends (INSLET). In 1972, Hudson's important book "Super Imperialism" was published. It was updated in a 2003 edition that's every bit as relevant now. His book and mid-June article will be discussed, "De-Dollarization: Dismantling America's Financial-Military Empire." Download Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com Source: Republic Broadcasting Network Aired: 4/15/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

GUEST: Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial topics. Her latest book is titled "Web of Debt," a brilliant analysis of the private cartel Federal Reserve and how it usurped money creation power to control its supply and price, then charge the government interest on its own money. She writes often on the global economic crisis. Discussion will focus on her latest article - an open letter to president Obama to "Revive Lincoln's Monetary Policy" (by) restoring the government's power" to control money. Download Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com Source: Republic Broadcasting Network Aired: 4/13/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

Author, advisor and speaker on money who is a guest speaker at the upcoming Community Currencies Conference 2009 in Wanganui. (duration: 32′40″) Download Tom Greco's website is http://www.reinventingmoney.com Source: Radio New Zealand Aired: 4/11/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

The financial industry brought the economy to its knees, but how did they get away with it? With the nation wondering how to hold the bankers accountable, Bill Moyers sits down with Bill Black, the former senior regulator who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. Black offers his analysis of what went wrong and his critique of the bailout. And, Bill Moyers talks with alternative media heavyweights Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman about what can and can't be addressed in big corporate media. Download Bill Moyers' website is http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/ Source: Bill Moyers Journal Aired: 4/03/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

Part 2: Ellen Hodgson Brown discusses, Web of Debt, her book about the US Federal Reserve, the so called ‘Money Trust’, and global banking. What are derivatives? What went wrong with the global banking industry and how quickly can it be fixed? Ellen Brown’s 2007 book, Web of Debt, outlined the state of global economic and banking systems, and explained that there simply wasn’t enough money to bail out the banks from a massive derivatives default. The book was a warning that when investors finally realized that the “insurance” they purchased in the form of derivatives was worthless, they would jump ship and bring the whole shaky edifice crashing down. We also learn about the little known Bank for International Settlements, in Basil Switzerland, and the rules it has imposed on global markets such as the so-called, ‘mark to market rule.’ Finally we learn how North Dakota is an example for what all US states should do, start a state bank. North Dakota is solvent, well off in fact, while most US states are operating in the red. We could set up state banks in a matter of several months, and save enough on interest to bring all US states back into solvency. Ellen Hodgson Brown blogs about the global economic collapse at webofdebt.com. Her articles on global finance and how to repair America’s banking system can also be found at www.globalresearch.ca. Download Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com Source: talknationradio.com Aired: 4/2/09 12:10 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

Part 1: Ellen Hodgson Brown discusses, Web of Debt, her book about the US Federal Reserve, the so called ‘Money Trust’, and global banking. What are derivatives? What went wrong with the global banking industry and how quickly can it be fixed? Ellen Brown’s 2007 book, Web of Debt, outlined the state of global economic and banking systems, and explained that there simply wasn’t enough money to bail out the banks from a massive derivatives default. The book was a warning that when investors finally realized that the “insurance” they purchased in the form of derivatives was worthless, they would jump ship and bring the whole shaky edifice crashing down. We also learn about the little known Bank for International Settlements, in Basil Switzerland, and the rules it has imposed on global markets such as the so-called, ‘mark to market rule.’ Finally we learn how North Dakota is an example for what all US states should do, start a state bank. North Dakota is solvent, well off in fact, while most US states are operating in the red. We could set up state banks in a matter of several months, and save enough on interest to bring all US states back into solvency. Ellen Hodgson Brown blogs about the global economic collapse at webofdebt.com. Her articles on global finance and how to repair America’s banking system can also be found at www.globalresearch.ca. Download Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com Source: talknationradio.com Aired: 4/2/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

Thinking Big Podcast 2: The Financial Crisis and the Fall of the Middle Class Commonweal Institute Senior Fellow Patrick O'Heffernan interviews Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Director of the Drum Major Institute, about the current economic crisis and the pressure it is placing on America's middle class. From the new book from the Progressive Ideas Network, Thinking Big: Progressive Ideas for a New Era. Download Dean Baker's blog is: http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press The Center for Economic and Policy Research website is: http://cepr.net/ The Drum Major Institute website is: http://drummajorinstitute.org/ Source: Commonweal Institute Aired: 3/12/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

GUEST: Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial topics. Her latest book is titled "Web of Debt." In it, she analyzed the private cartel Federal Reserve and how it usurped money creation power to control its supply and price, then charge the government interest on its own money. Brown writes often on the global economic crisis. Discussion will focus on that topic as well as the Obama administration's bailout and stimulus plans. On July 30, discussion will focus on Brown's latest financial writing. On July 31, conventional v. natural health practices will be covered, given the threat of dangerous, toxic Swine Flu vaccinations being globally mandated. Download Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com Source: Republic Broadcasting Network Aired: 3/9/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

Part 2: An independent movie on the question "Where does money come from?" already has had a huge two year success with well over 2 million viewers on the internet. Now it is seeing another surge of interest because it also explains some of the underpinnings of the current financial crisis. Money as Debt by the Canadian Paul Grignon makes the case that only a small part of our money is created by the government mint that prints or coins it. The vast majority of money is created by banks whenever a loan or mortgage is made. Banks, which are private institutions, are given enormous power to make and manage money and it is well worth today, in light of the crash of so many banks, to look at the monetary system. Download The web site of the film is: http://www.moneyasdebt.net Source: TUC Radio Aired: 3/4/09 12:20 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.

Part 1: An independent movie on the question "Where does money come from?" already has had a huge two year success with well over 2 million viewers on the internet. Now it is seeing another surge of interest because it also explains some of the underpinnings of the current financial crisis. Money as Debt by the Canadian Paul Grignon makes the case that only a small part of our money is created by the government mint that prints or coins it. The vast majority of money is created by banks whenever a loan or mortgage is made. Banks, which are private institutions, are given enormous power to make and manage money and it is well worth today, in light of the crash of so many banks, to look at the monetary system. Download The web site of the film is: http://www.moneyasdebt.net Source: TUC Radio Aired: 3/4/09 12:10 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.