The Money Matrix, Part 1: The Private Money System
By Sue Peters. Private commercial banks create what we all use as ‘money’. This fundamental fact is not taught in our schools. Why? The answer: because it is the power
Money Truly is Working Against Us
In “Money is working against us” (The Athens Messenger, August 7, 2021), Mat Roberts rightly points out the failure of our money system. It has led to an extreme concentration
Monetary Reform: Simple Spiel
What monetary reform is all about is to promote a bill that has already been drafted in various formulations here in the USA. One in the 1930s and one from
A Bridge – Public Banking on the PBI model: Why?
By Virginia Hammon, author of US Money: What is It? Why We Must Change. How We Can (2018) and with Mark Pash, How We Pay for a Better World (2019);
Public Banking on the PBI Model: Why not?
By Joe Bongiovanni, The Money Apprentice & Howard Switzer, Co-Chair – GPUS Banking and Monetary Reform Committee. Both authors are active Members of the Alliance For Just Money. The following
Subsidies are Built Into the Existing Bank System
Ralph Musgrave. The reason private banks are subsidized stems from the basic nature of the existing and flawed monetary system: “fractional reserve banking” as it is sometimes called. For anyone
Making Money: The Philosophy of Crisis Capitalism by Ole Bjerg—A Review and Recommendation
By Ben Rininger. Ole Bjerg’s 2014 book about the philosophy of money creation is a fantastic work; it is, in my opinion, a must-read for anyone curious about how money
The Transformational Approach to Pay for Huge COVID-19 and Climate Costs
Draft New York Times Op-Ed article. February 9, 2021. By Frans Verhagen. There are three approaches of paying for the enormous costs to combat the coronavirus-19 pandemic and the looming
Public and Safe Money . . . in Spanish
Miguel A. Fernández Ordóñez. An Introduction to Monetary Reform. There are very few books in Spanish that deal with bank money reform. There is a classic, the one entitled “Money,
The Problem with Money
By Howard Switzer. There are many writers today analyzing our dire ecologic and economic circumstances that comprise an existential threat to civilization and perhaps even to life on this planet.