My Journey
By Richard C. Cook. Written for Presentation at the August 24, 2020, Alliance for Just Money (AJFM) Coffeehouse. I set out to write a commentary on current economic events for
Talk about Borders
Often maps can convey ideas better than words. One example is this terrific map I recently found illustrating the geographical dimension of the ‘Trilateral West’ or ‘North-Western Triad’, which is
Money and Banking: Assessing overlaps and differences between SMR and MMT
On April 4, 2020 the AFJM Coffee House hosted Maurice Höfgen. He holds a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Maastricht (Netherlands) and took the steering group lead
The Pandemic and the Economy: A Statement of the AFJM Board of Directors, April 15, 2020
The stock market has collapsed. Unemployment is soaring. State and local revenues are plummeting. Covid-19 cases are overloading the healthcare system. Government leaders have shut down non-essential segments of the
Covid-19 Capitalism, Neoliberal Debt & the Need for Sovereign Money
Commentary. Tim Di Muzio [1], Associate Professor of International Relations and Political Economy, University of Wollongong, Australia, April 1, 2020. This is a similar tale to the one experienced by British engineer
Shadow Banking and Its Implications for Monetary Reform
What are Shadow Banks? Shadow banks are financial entities which do things much like banks do. Under a variety of names, they borrow and they lend. The difference is that