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Living Wealth Money System

For decades, poor countries spent more money repaying old debts than they did on health and education combined.

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    The Future of Money: Creating New Wealth, Work and a Wiser World
    Book by Bernard A. Lietaer

    Good historical critique of the official money system followed by recommendation to break the banking system’s monopoly control of money creation by encouraging free issuance of independent complementary currencies.

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    Future Wealth: A New Economics for the 21st Century
    Book by James Robertson

    Presents a classic new economy framing on the money system. His current papers and proposals are available for free download on the author's website.

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    For the Common Good
    Book by Herman Daly and John Cobb, Jr.

    For the Common Good outlines a new economics based upon community as an alternative to capitalism and socialism.

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    The Money Masters
    Video by Patrick Carmack (Producer)

    The Money Masters explains the history behind the current world depression and the bankers’ goal of world economic control by a very small coterie of private bankers, above all governments.

    The Money Masters documentary video provides a compelling historical treatment with archival...

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    The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity
    Book by Les Leopold

    How could the best and brightest (and most highly paid) in finance crash the global economy and then get us to bail them out as well? What caused this mess in the first place? Housing? Greed? Dumb politicians? What can Main Street do about it?

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    Money As Debt
    Video by Paul Grignon

    Provides an accessible animated presentation on bank credit money creation and its dysfunctions.

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    A Policy Prescription for Structural Reform
    Website by A New Way Forward

    The policy prescription: BREAK UP THE TOO BIG TO FAIL BANKS. The too big, too complicated banks must be broken up with strong, new regulatory and antitrust rules in place. No financial institution should be allowed to grow so complicated that they can continue to dominate our politics and and...

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    The Lost Science of Money: The Mythology of Money, The Story of Power
    Book by Stephen Zarlenga

    Unheard of wealth concentrates into very few, largely undeserving hands. Americans work harder and produce more than ever but increasingly fall into debt and bankruptcy while corruption rules, and predators plunder society by merely shuffling papers. Less than 1% of the population now owns about...

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    Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
    Book by Kevin Phillips

    How Wall Street morphed into a criminal syndicate.

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    Kevin Phillips on Bill Moyers - Economic crash 2008
    Video by Kevin Phillips

    Bill Moyers sits down with former Nixon White House strategist and political and economic critic Kevin Phillips, whose latest book BAD MONEY: RECKLESS FINANCE, FAILED POLITICS, AND THE GLOBAL CRISIS OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM explores the role that the crumbling financial sector played in the now-...