Central Bank Digital Currency: Friend or Foe?
By Ben Rininger. CBDC is not a well-defined term. It is used to refer to a number of concepts. However, it is envisioned by most to be a new form
Will Just Money Reform Cause Inflation?
When we change our money system from debt-money created by private bankers to government-created asset money, will that lead to inflation? No. It will establish steady-value currency that will eliminate
How Monetary Reform Solves Climate Change and Environmental Contamination
[This document was sent to the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry on February 25, 2021, accompanied with this cover letter] By Mark Pash. Introduction. The biggest crisis
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
Money Creation is A Form of Violence
By Dorothy Van Soest PhD, MSW and Mary Sanderson Poverty is the worst form of violence.Mahatma Gandhi Imagine having to choose between paying for necessary health care and paying for
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,