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Democratize the money system to root the power to create and allocate money in people and democratically governed communities of place.

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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-...

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    The Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free
    Book by Ellen Hodgson Brown

    This book exposes important, often obscured truths about our money system and our economic past and future. Our money is not what we have been led to believe. The creation of money has been "privatized," or taken over by a private money cartel. It is all done by sleight of hand, concealed by...

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    The Conscience of a Liberal
    Book by Paul Krugman

    This wholly original new work by the best-selling author of The Great Unraveling challenges America to reclaim the values that made it great. With this major new volume, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, studies the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that...

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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...