Reform the Money: Recent Episodes
Reform the Money
A collection of speeches and interviews with Economists, Economic Pundits and Financial Consultants on the topics of Economics, Monetary Reform, Globalisation, Banking, Financial Fraud and the Global Fincancial Crisis.
"Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...." James A. Garfield
L. Randall Wray — L. Randall Wray interviewed by Ian Masters on KPFK FM-90.7 - Los Angeles
Economist Randall Wray joins us for a macro-economic analysis of adverse economic trends at home and abroad amid dire predictions of a double-dip recession in the U.S. and defaults in Europe. We will try to connect the dots to see if we are indeed at a Smoot-Hawley moment where the Congress, instead of reversing economic decline, has accelerated it.
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L. Randall Wray's website is: New Economic Perspectives
Source: New Economic Perspectives
Aired: 8/04/11 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
"Guns, Finance and Butter - Finance Is the New Mode of Warfare" with Michael Hudson on Guns and Butter, for July 13, 2011 - 1:00pm
The jobless recovery; the debt ceiling and default; China; Greece; banks, not countries, receive the bailouts; financial warfare; IMF and EU; European Central Bank; US credit default swaps; US agricultural exports create food dependency; currency devaluation devalues the price of labor; class war of banks against the rest of society.
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: KPFA Guns & Butter
Aired: 7/13/11 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
"Debt Deflation in Europe and America" with Michael Hudson on Guns and Butter, for September 14, 2011 - 1:00pm
European banking crisis causing a constitutional crisis of the European Central Bank; Germany; the myth of Social Security in the US.; bank balance sheet crisis; food, fuel and climate crisis; the super congress; debt deflation; FHA lawsuit against the banks; criminalization of the financial sector; Modern Monetary Theory; the coming lost decade; debt cancellation.
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: KPFA Guns & Butter
Aired: 9/14/11 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Marshall Auerback — “How Japan Will Bounce Back” - Radio Free Dylan (Mar 18, 2011)
Episode 41: How Japan Will Bounce Back with Marshall Auerback
What does the earthquake mean to Japan’s fiscal future? Will one of the possible ripple effects of the disaster in Japan be a period of meaningful economic growth? Is the correct response to an environment of deprived economic activity to cut, or is it to invest and spend?
Whether to cut or whether to spend is a raging debate, not only in Japan, but one that is active in our own country as well. Listen in as Dylan talks with Marshall Auerback about how Japan and the U.S. can begin to allocate capital in a way that solves problems, ultimately bringing advancement in infrastructure, society, and social structure.
You can read Marshall’s most recent post at New Deal 2.0: What Does The Earthquake Mean to Japan’s Fiscal Future?
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Marshall Auerback's website is: New Deal 2.0
BIO: Marshall Auerback is a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. He currently serves as a global portfolio strategist for Madison Street Partners, LLC, a Denver-based hedge fund. From 1983-1987, he was an investment manager at GT Management (Asia) Limited in Hong Kong, where he focused on the markets of Hong Kong, the ASEAN countries, New Zealand and Australia. From 1988-91, Mr. Auerback was based in Tokyo, where his Pacific Rim expertise was broadened to include the Japanese stock market.
Source: Radio Free Dylan
Aired: 3/18/11 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
James K. Galbraith — "The Affluent Society & Other Writings 1952-1967" - Free Library of Philadelphia (Nov 18, 2010)
James K. Galbraith is a professor of economics and the Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., Chair in Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. A regular contributor to The Nation and Mother Jones, Galbraith is the author of The Predator State, Balancing Acts, and Created Unequal, all of which examine different aspects of the distribution of wealth in the United States. His new book collects the notable writings of his father--renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith--including American Capitalism, The Affluent Society, and The New Industrial State into one definitive volume.
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James K. Galbraith's website is: James K. Galbraith
Source: Free Library of Philadelphia
Aired: 11/18/11 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
James K. Galbraith — "A Progressive Economist" - ElectricPolitics (Sep 26, 2006)
The venerable tradition of political economy hasn't died out (yet) but practitioners have become uncommonly hard to find. James K. Galbraith, who penned a wonderfully sharp critique of our economic system earlier this year in Mother Jones, and is at work on a larger version (as well as having another new book about to be published), brings iconoclastic, innovative sensibilities to a wide range of issues. I'm always delighted to hear reasonable solutions—even half-way solutions—that may be less well-known but are eminently bleeding-edge, especially from a committed progressive. My sincere thanks to James for sharing his thoughts. Total runtime an hour and thirty three minutes. Enjoy!
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James K. Galbraith's website is: James K. Galbraith
Source: Electric Politics
Aired: 09/026/06 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
James K. Galbraith — "Keynote at the EPS Bernard Schwartz Symposium" - (Oct 01, 2010)
James K. Galbraith, Keynote at the EPS Bernard Schwartz Symposium October 2010. James K. Galbraith is one of the great economists of our time, and with one of the best outlooks for what can actually work. So we're just going to get out of the way.
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James K. Galbraith's website is: James K. Galbraith
Source: Demand Side Economics
Aired: 5/027/11 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
James K. Galbraith — "James Galbraith Interview" - Alan Minsky (May 27, 2011)
Economist James K Galbraith analyzes today’s economy and contrasts it with a sound, and more just, economy. He also explains why we would need a powerful left to remake the economy in these necessary ways.
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James K. Galbraith's website is: James K. Galbraith
Source: Building a Powerful Left in the United States
Aired: 5/027/11 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Mike Norman — "John Thomas Financial Economist, Mike Norman" - New Captains of Industry (Dec 28, 2010)
Economist Mike Norman talks about the Great Recession, the upcoming year 2011, and our Nation's Debt.
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Mike Norman has worked at Merrill Lynch, was a member of four U.S. futures exchanges (Chicago Mercantile Exchange, New York Mercantile Exchange, Commodity Exchange, and the New York Futures Exchange) and ran the derivatives trading desk for a major Swiss Bank.
Mike Norman's website is: Mike Norman Economics
Source: Blogtalk Radio | New Captains of Industry
Aired: 12/28/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Mike Norman, L. Randall Wray and Warren Mosler — "Economist Round Table. Economics 101 for Politicians and Policy Makers" - New Captains of Industry (Dec 31, 2010)
This economist round table challenges the prevailing thought on the U.S. economy, National Debt, Trade deficits, and Government spending. The panel includes Mike Norman, L. Randall Wray, and Warren Mosler. They propose such ideas as a payroll tax holiday, tax cuts for businesses, capital infusions to the states, major government investment in infrastructure, and eight dollar per hour federal jobs program for anybody who wants to work.
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Mike Norman has worked at Merrill Lynch, was a member of four U.S. futures exchanges (Chicago Mercantile Exchange, New York Mercantile Exchange, Commodity Exchange, and the New York Futures Exchange) and ran the derivatives trading desk for a major Swiss Bank.
Mike Norman's website is: Mike Norman Economics
L. Randall Wray is an economics professor at University of Missouri–Kansas City. He believes the deficit concerns are hysteria, and massive cuts will only worsen the problem. His focus is on growing the economy.
L. Randall Wray's website is: New Economic Perspectives
Economist Warren Mosler - Co-Author Understanding Modern Money. Author "The 7 Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy". Download PDF at http://moslereconomics.com/, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/warren-mosler
Warren Mosler's website is: The Center of the Universe
Source: Blogtalk Radio | New Captains of Industry
Aired: 12/31/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Warren Mosler — "The economic situations in Europe, China, and the United States in 2011" - New Captains of Industry (Dec 29, 2010)
Economist Warren Mosler speaks about the economic situations in Europe, China, and the United States in 2011. He also speaks how the changing political climate will affect our Nation's future. Other talking points are the National Debt, and Modern Monetary Theory (MMT).
Economist Warren Mosler - Co-Author Understanding Modern Money. Author "The 7 Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy". Download PDF at http://moslereconomics.com/, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/warren-mosler
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Warren Mosler's website is: The Center of the Universe
Source: Blogtalk Radio | New Captains of Industry
Aired: 12/29/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Warren Mosler — "Can Taxes and Bonds Finance Government Spending?" - Virtually Speaking (Apr 08, 2011)
Economist Warren Mosler joins Jay... Can Taxes and Bonds Finance Government Spending? Modern Monetary Theory says no. Co-Author Understanding Modern Money. Author "The 7 Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy". Download PDF at http://moslereconomics.com/, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/warren-mosler
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Warren Mosler's website is: The Center of the Universe
Source: Blogtalk Radio | Virtually Speakingwith JayAckroyd
Aired: 4/08/11 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
05 — “Policy Proposals for Fiscal Sustainability”” - L. Randall Wray & Pavlina Tcherneva, Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In
SESSION 5 “Policy Proposals for Fiscal Sustainability”
L. Randall Wray, Professor of Economics, Research Director of CFEPS at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, and Senior Scholar at The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College;
Pavlina Tcherneva, Assistant Professor of Economics at Franklin and Marshall College, Senior Research Associate at CFEPS and Research Associate at The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and bloggers at New Economic Perspectives
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Source: Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In - NetRootsMass
Aired: 4/28/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
04 — “Inflation and Hyper-inflation” - Marshall Auerback, Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In
SESSION 4 “Inflation and Hyper-inflation”
Marshall Auerback, International Consulting Economist, blogger at New Deal 2.0 and New Economic Perspectives
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Source: Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In - NetRootsMass
Aired: 4/28/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
03 — “The Deficit, the Debt, the Debt-To-GDP ratio, the Grandchildren and Government Economic Policy” - Warren Mosler, Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In
SESSION 3 “The Deficit, the Debt, the Debt-To-GDP ratio, the Grandchildren and Government Economic Policy”
Warren Mosler, International Consulting Economist and blogger at The Center of the Universe
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Source: Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In - NetRootsMass
Aired: 4/28/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
02 — “Are There Spending Constraints on Governments Sovereign in their Currency?” - Stephanie Kelton, Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In
SESSION 2 “Are There Spending Constraints on Governments Sovereign in their Currency?”
Stephanie Kelton, Associate Professor of Macroeconomics, Finance, and Money and Banking, Senior Scholar at The Center for Full Employment and Price Stability (CFEPS), University of Missouri – Kansas City, Research Associate at The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, and blogger at New Economics Perspectives
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Source: Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In - NetRootsMass
Aired: 4/28/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
01 — “What Is Fiscal Sustainability?” - Bill Mitchell, Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In
SESSION 1 “What Is Fiscal Sustainability?”
Bill Mitchell, Research Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), at the University of Newcastle, NSW Australia, and blogger at billy blog
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Source: Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In - NetRootsMass
Aired: 4/28/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
00 — “Welcome and Introduction” - William Halal, Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In
William Halal, Professor, Department of Management at George Washington University, Washington DC.
1st Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In and Counter-Conference
George Washington University, Washington DC, April 28, 2010
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Source: Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In - NetRootsMass
Aired: 4/28/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
To come: Pavlina Tcherneva, L. Randall Wray, Marshall Auerback, Warren Mosler, Stephanie Kelton and Bill Mitchell from the April 28, 2010 Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In and Counter Conference, as well as other lectures, debates and interviews from various other sources over the next couple of days. All credit due to Vilhelmo for the recommendation.This podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
L. Randall Wray — The Biggest Drains On The Deficits – 03/02/2011
The Biggest Drains On The Deficit
Ross Reynolds
03/02/2011 at 12:20 p.m.
The national debt is growing. Lawmakers and experts are asking the question — what do we do about the biggest expenses of our government; Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and defense spending? 63 percent of the 2010 federal budget went to these programs. Do we have to start making sacrifices?
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Mike Tanner is senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He deals with domestic issues including budget and debt, and sees the massive deficit as a top federal concern.
L. Randall Wray is an economics professor at University of Missouri–Kansas City. He believes the deficit concerns are hysteria, and massive cuts will only worsen the problem. His focus is on growing the economy.
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L. Randall Wray's website is: New Economic Perspectives
Source: kuow.org
Aired: 3/02/11 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
L. Randall Wray — A Minskian Explanation of the Economic Crisis – 2/24/11
Professor of Economics, University of Missouri–Kansas City
A Minskian Explanation of the Economic Crisis
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.
Relying upon the theories and assumptions of Hyman Minsky, Wray will explore and expound upon the factors that contributed to the current economic and financial crisis.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Economics.
Biography (provided by the speaker)
L. Randall Wray is a professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City as well as research director, the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, and senior scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, NY. A student of Hyman P. Minsky while at Washington University in St. Louis, Wray has focused on monetary theory and policy, macroeconomics, financial instability, and employment policy. He has published widely in journals and is the author of Understanding Modern Money: The Key to Full Employment and Price Stability (Elgar, 1998) and Money and Credit in Capitalist Economies (Elgar 1990). He is the editor of Credit and State Theories of Money (Edward Elgar 2004) and the co-editor of Contemporary Post Keynesian Analysis (Edward Elgar 2005), Money, Financial Instability and Stabilization Policy (Edward Elgar 2006), and Keynes for the Twenty-First Century: The Continuing Relevance of The General Theory, Palgrave, 2008. Wray is also the author of numerous scholarly articles in edited books and academic journals, including the Journal of Economic Issues, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Review of Political Economy, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Economic and Labour Relations Review, Economie Appliquée, and the Eastern Economic Journal. Wray received a B.A. from the University of the Pacific and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Rome, the University of Paris, and UNAM (Mexico City). He was the Bernardin-Haskell Professor, UMKC, Fall 1996, and joined the UMKC faculty as professor of economics, August 1999.
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L. Randall Wray's website is: New Economic Perspectives
Source: The Clarke Forum
Aired: 2/24/11 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Michael Hudson — Michael Hudson on Iceland's "No!" — The Gary Null Show - 4/11/11
1. Health and nutrition news.
2. A great commentary from David Korten about how things really are.
3. Michael Hudson discusses Iceland's rejection of the international bankers' bailout terms, as well as the likely ramifications for Iceland and the global financial system.
Today's guest is Dr. Michael Hudson and he is one of our nation’s important economists and Wall Street financial analysts. He is currently the President of The Institution for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends and was the Chief Economic Policy Advisor for the Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s 2008 presidential campaign. Dr. Hudson has served as an advisor to the White House, State and Defense departments at the Hudson Institute, in addition to the United Nations Institute where he became a specialist in global economics.
Dr. Hudson has written several books and many important papers articles, including “Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of the American Empire” and “Global Fracture: The New International Economic Order”.
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: Progressive Radio Network
Aired: 4/11/11 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Stephen Zarlenga — "The Moral Necessity for Religion to Eradicate Usury" — Cleveland Society of Friends (Quakers) (4/11/11)
Zarlenga's Talk to the Cleveland Society of Friends (Quakers) 4/11/11
I argued the moral necessity for religion to eradicate usury in the real meaning of that term: whereby the strong take advantage of the weak through unfair monetary mechanisms. Chapter 20 of The Lost Science of Money describes how the private Bank of England was nationalized at the urging of the Archbishop of Canterbury; demonstrating the power of the nation's spiritual hierarchy to obtain economic justice. I tested whether the usury concept could help the Quakers join the fight for monetary reform. Listen to it here.
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Stephen Zarlenga's website is http://www.monetary.org/
Source: AMI
Aired: 04/11/11 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Stephen Zarlenga — "How the Economists Facilitated the Crisis" — EEA (2/26/11)
Stephen Zarlenga's talk at the Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting 2/26/11. Dr Paul Krugman massaged this audience of economists. I'll summarize his talk: "Don't worry that you didn't foresee the crisis, neither did the rest of us". My talk took the opposite approach blaming the economists with the title "How the Economists Facilitated the Crisis". I said "Economists and their theories should be held accountable for the disaster".
You can listen to it here or read it here.
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Stephen Zarlenga's website is http://www.monetary.org/
Source: AMI
Aired: 02/26/11 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
"The View From Europe" with Michael Hudson on Guns and Butter, for March 16, 2011 - 1:00pm
Financial and fiscal austerity policies; the appeal of economic austerity to bankers; economic depression and war; post-WWII vs. post-cold war economic policy; government to government grants vs. commercial lending; the euro and dollar; privatization in New Zealand and elsewhere; social unrest; speculation and prices; criminalization of the economy; impoverishment of the US.
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: KPFA Guns & Butter
Aired: 3/16/11 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Michael Hudson — "American Monetary Institute presentation" AMI conference, University Center in downtown Chicago, Sept 30 - Oct 3, 2010
Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (1968 & 2003), Trade, Development and Foreign Debt (1992 & 2009) and of The Myth of Aid (1971).
ISLET engages in research regarding domestic and international finance, national income and balance-sheet accounting with regard to real estate, and the economic history of the ancient Near East.
Michael acts as an economic advisor to governments worldwide including Iceland, Latvia and China on finance and tax law. He gives presentations on various topics at conferences and meetings and can be booked here. Listen to some of his many radio interviews to hear his hyperspeed analysis of the geo-political machinations of global economics. Travel costs and a per diem are appreciated.
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: Politics and Science (Radio4All Network)
Aired: 11/09/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Bill Still — "The Wisdom of Bill Still" on Two Beers with Steve (Sun, 20 December 2009)
Who Profits? — Dec 2009 — An excellent interview with Bill Still, creator of the new documentary The Secret of Oz. His top insight: We must take back from private interest the ability to profit from the "creation of new money."
When I first got confirmation that Bill Still was going to be on 'Two Beers With Steve' I rushed to my wife to tell her the good news... that I would soon be talking with a legend, an icon of mine. I have to thank Nathan Martin for making the meeting possible, Nathan also sat in during the interview and we all had a great conversation.
Bill Still has been beating the drum for monetary reform for decades, long before my 'awakening' Bill was hard at work writing books, articles and had made the film 'The Money Masters'. His latest venture has been another film titled 'The Secret of Oz', which I have seen and highly recommend.
This interview covers many topics but the most facsinating discovery for me was finding out how Bill Still, a journalist, became to be interested in monetary reform. A great interview, thanks Bill.
Buy The Secret of Oz - Buy the film and support the cause.
The Secret of Oz Website
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Bill Still's website is: http://secretofoz.com/
Source: Two Beers with Steve
Aired: 12/20/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Michael Hudson — "World Tired of Paying Bill for US Military" on The Real News Network (December 26, 2010)
Michael Hudson: World Tired of Paying for US Military — 26 Dec 2010 — Hudson explains how the US dollar's status as the global reserve currency extracts extra financial value that America uses to fund its military. But other countries are recognizing this and are slowly moving away from the dollar for their transactions.
Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (1968 & 2003), Trade, Development and Foreign Debt (1992 & 2009) and of The Myth of Aid (1971). ISLET engages in research regarding domestic and international finance, national income and balance-sheet accounting with regard to real estate, and the economic history of the ancient Near East. Michael acts as an economic advisor to governments worldwide including Iceland, Latvia and China on finance and tax law.
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: The Real News Network
Aired: 12/26/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Bill Black — "Reagan Made S&L Crisis Vastly Worse" on The Real News Network (February 7, 2011)
Former S&L regulator Bill Black explains the Reagan administration's role in deepening the Savings & Loan crisis of the 1980s.
William K. Black, associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, teaches White-Collar Crime, Public Finance, Antitrust, Law & Economics. A former financial regulator, he held several senior regulatory positions during the S&L debacle. Black is the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One (2005) which focuses on the role of “control fraud” in financial crises. Black developed the concept of "control fraud" — frauds in which the CEO or head of state uses the entity as a "weapon." Control frauds cause greater financial losses than all other forms of property crime combined.
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Bill Black's website is: University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
Source: The Real News Network
Aired: 02/07/11 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Michael Hudson — "Reaganomics Sucked Wealth up, Did Not Trickle it Down" on The Real News Network (06 Feb 2011)
Reaganomics Sucked Wealth Up; It Did Not 'Trickle Down' — 06 Feb 2011 — Michael Hudson casts a forensic economist's eye on the tax and regulatory changes enacted under Reagan that started the ball rolling for the owners of the FIRE sector (finance, insurance, real estate). The rich-get-richer free-for-all continued through the 1990s and 2000s and culminated in the banking and financial chaos we see today.
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: The Real News Network
Aired: 02/06/11 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Catherine Austin Fitts — "Look Behind the Smokescreen" on The Progressive Radio News Hour - 02/24/11
Fitts talks about the current "reengineering" and political obfuscation that is going on in the US economy, the duplicity of the attempts to slash state-worker salaries and benefits, and why political change in the US does not result in change.
Catherine Austin Fitts is an investment advisor, entrepreneur, and former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner under GHW Bush. She's also a former Managing Director and board member of the Wall Street firm, Dillon Read & Co., Inc.
She's now editor of Solari.com and runs Solari, Inc. - an "online media company focused on ethical investment and preserving family wealth. Long ago, (she) made a promise (never again to) act against the best interest (of her) own people (and to do her best) to leave a better world for generations to come."
Her latest views on world and national issues will be discussed.
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Catherine Austin Fitts' website is http://www.solari.com/
Source: Progressive Radio Network
Aired: 2/24/11 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Jim Puplava — Wall Street Banks and the "Inside Job" on the Financial Sense Newshour (26 Feb 2011)
This week on the Financial Sense Newshour, Jim Puplava is pleased to welcome Daniel Alpert to discuss the 2011 Academy Award winner for best documentary film, Inside Job, which explores the credit crisis of 2008 and who was responsible. Dan is a founding Managing Partner of Westwood Capital, LLC and its affiliates. He has more than 30 years of international merchant banking and investment banking experience, including a wide variety of work-out and bankruptcy related restructuring experience. Dan was featured in the film and is part of a monthly economic group that includes Inside Job director Charles Ferguson.
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Jim Puplava's website is: http://www.financialsense.com/
Source: financialsense.com
Aired: 02/26/11 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Michael Hudson — "this is hell" — WNUR 89.3FM Chicago (Saturday, March 14, 2009)
First Hour: Financial historian and economist Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, and Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. In 2007, Dr. Hudson was Chief Economic Policy Adviser for the Kucinich for President campaign. Michael is now writing a new tax policy for the United States. His most recent writing includes, “The Language of Looting.” In that article, Michael writes what “Nationalize the Banks” and the “Free Market” really mean in today’s looking-glass world.
Also in this episode:
* Acclaimed journalist and renowned analyst Gerard Prunier.
* Patrick Cockburn the author of “The Occupation: War, resistance and daily life in Iraq”.
* Ray McGovern a US Army infantry/intelligence officer and then held senior positions in CIA’s analysis division for the next 27 years.
* Chuck Collin, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good.
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: thisishell.net
Aired: 03/14/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Kevin Barret and Matthias Chang discuss Malaysia's response to the Asian Financial Crisis as well as the causes of the current Financial Crisis.
Matthias Chang is a Malaysian of Chinese descent. He is a Barrister of 32 years standing and once served as the Political Secretary to the Fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad. He is the author of three bestsellers, “Future FastForward”, “Brainwashed for War, Programmed to Kill”, and “The Shadow Money-Lenders and the Global Financial Tsunami”, published in the US and in Malaysia. Since his student days in England in the late 1960s, he was and still is, actively involved in the anti-war movement spanning a period of 41 years. He is a Catholic but enjoins all to promote inter-faith understanding. He resides in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Matthias Chang's website is: http://www.futurefastforward.com/
Source: noliesradio.org
Aired: 02/22/11 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Peace Revolution episode 012: Origins of Money / A Virtual Round-Table Discussion
The Book Discussed: The Lost Science of Money / The Mythology of Money - The Story of Power by Stephen Zarlenga
Stephen Zarlenga is the founder of the American Monetary Institute (AMI) - the leading American monetary think tank for monetary history, theory and reform (and he's also the author of the American Monetary Act, submitted to congress by Dennis Kucinich in March of this year).
Jan Irvin (author and host of the GnosticMedia podcast) conducted four detailed interviews with Zarlenga...
Episode #041: "Money's Dirty Little Secret: an interview with Stephen Zarlenga" part 1
Episode #057: "Why Gold & Silver are NOT the Answer" - an interview with Stephen Zarlenga, part 2
Episode #067: "A Response to the Austrian School: an interview with Stephen Zarle... part 3
Episode #088: "Silver & Gold" - an update with Stephen Zarlenga, part 4
This podcast features:
Brett Veinotte, Host of the School Sucks Podcast
Jan Irvin, Host of the Gnostic Media Podcast
Paul Verge, Writer/Director/Producer, Divergent Films Canada
Richard Grove, Tragedy and Hope dot com
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Stephen Zarlenga's website is http://www.monetary.org/
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Aired: 12/02/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Monetary Reform with monetary experts Dick Distlehorst and Robert Poteat, both are senior advisors to the American Monetary Institute which just held its 6th Annual AMI Monetary Reform Conference in Chicago.
Dick Distlehorst, is in his 90th year, his wife passed away six years ago. He was with the First Marine Division on Guadalcanal in the South Pacific during World War II. He first learned about our problematic, to say the least, monetary system in 1958 and has studied it and fought against it since that time. He has held meetings locally for over 10 years, and he spoke to the conference via video and gave a very powerful, inspiring speech and made suggestions to all of us on how to pressure Congress and educate our friends about money.
Robert Poteat has been studying and working on monetary reform since 1981. His education was electrical engineering. He worked in radio and television broadcasting, manufacturing, and elevator construction. Since his retirement, he has been active with Veterans for Peace as past president and media producer for VfP Chapter 109 in Olympia, WA. Representative Dennis Kucinich also spoke via video and said that he would be introducing a Monetary Reform bill in Congress in November. My report, entitled Money of, by, for the Corporations or Money of, by, for the People? and my presentation- Strategy for the Monetary Reform Movement, Stephen Zarlenga's opening remarks, and videos of the presentations of Professor Michael Hudson, Professor Yamaguchi, and Professor Steve Keen are posted online, along with a report by Keen at his www.debtdeflation.com website.
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Note: The AMI‘s Dick Distelhorst wrote a lengthy rebuttal in the comment section of the von Mises blog article: The Dangers of Monetary Reform. The full rebuttal can be found and read HERE.
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Aired: 10/07/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
New $600B Fed Stimulus Fuels Fears of US Currency War– Michael Hudson
The Federal Reserve will pump $600 billion more into the US economy and keep interest rates at historical low levels. The short-term impact of the Fed’s move, known as quantitative easing, has been a jump in stock prices across the globe. Many nations, however, have accused the United States of waging a currency war by devaluing the dollar. We speak to former Wall Street economist and University of Missouri professor Michael Hudson. “The object of warfare is to take over a country’s land, raw materials and assets, and grab them,” Hudson says. “In the past, that used to be done militarily by invading them. But today you can do it financially simply by creating credit, which is what the Federal Reserve has done.” [read transcript here] See his website here. From A Democracy Now Presentation 11-5-2010.
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Mysteries of Neo-Liberalism: From WikiLeaks to 21st Century Potato Famines
Professor Hudson appeared on the Renegade Economists radio show in Melbourne, Australia last Wednesday.
Mysteries of Neo-Liberalism: Professor Michael Hudson delves through the murky world of economics, espionage and Wiki Leaks freedoms.
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PART 3: Steve Keen — Local Future 2010 Conference on Sustainability: Energy, Economy & Environment
Q&A of Steve Keen's Speech
Steve Keen is Associate Professor of Economics & Finance at the University of Western Sydney, Australia and author of the book "Debunking Economics". In 2010, Keen received the Revere Award from the Real World Economics Review for most cogently warned of the crisis, and whose work is most likely to prevent future crises.
Steve Keen was given one and a half hours to present at the Local Future event, which gave him the opportunity to present a comprehensive treatment of the dynamics of credit money and the “Global Financial Crisis” (to use the Australian moniker for it) or “Great Recession” (as economists in the US refer to it).
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Professor Steve Keen's website is Steve Keen’s Debtwatch
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PART 2: Steve Keen — Local Future 2010 Conference on Sustainability: Energy, Economy & Environment
Steve Keen's Speech
Steve Keen is Associate Professor of Economics & Finance at the University of Western Sydney, Australia and author of the book "Debunking Economics". In 2010, Keen received the Revere Award from the Real World Economics Review for most cogently warned of the crisis, and whose work is most likely to prevent future crises.
Steve Keen was given one and a half hours to present at the Local Future event, which gave him the opportunity to present a comprehensive treatment of the dynamics of credit money and the “Global Financial Crisis” (to use the Australian moniker for it) or “Great Recession” (as economists in the US refer to it).
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Professor Steve Keen's website is Steve Keen’s Debtwatch
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PART 1: Steve Keen — Local Future 2010 Conference on Sustainability: Energy, Economy & Environment
Aaron Wissner’s introduction
Steve Keen is Associate Professor of Economics & Finance at the University of Western Sydney, Australia and author of the book "Debunking Economics". In 2010, Keen received the Revere Award from the Real World Economics Review for most cogently warned of the crisis, and whose work is most likely to prevent future crises.
Steve Keen was given one and a half hours to present at the Local Future event, which gave him the opportunity to present a comprehensive treatment of the dynamics of credit money and the “Global Financial Crisis” (to use the Australian moniker for it) or “Great Recession” (as economists in the US refer to it).
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Professor Steve Keen's website is Steve Keen’s Debtwatch
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Jeff Rense with Terry Arnold & Steve Zarlenga – Monetary Reform
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Aired: 10/19/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
WAMC Conversation with... Stephen Zarlinga (American Monetary Institute)
Dr. Alan Chartok, King of Northeastern Public Radio presents an unequalled full hour interview of Stephen Zarlenga
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Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial issues. A new edition of her important book, "Web of Debt," is an essential analysis of the private banking system, how it usurped money creation power, and how we can take it back.
Brown's latest writing will be discussed.
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
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"Monetary Reform" with Stephen Zarlenga, founder of The American Monetary Institute, author of The Lost Science of Money - The Mythology of Money - the Story of Power. Stephen Zarlenga has over three decades of practical experience in the world of finance and spent over twelve years doing the historical research to write his book. The final chapter is the solution he offers based upon his knowledge and understanding of money, and the failures of past attempts at monetary reform. His idea has been written into legislative language which should someday come before Congress. He believes that daunting though the struggle may appear, we must not give up because our future depends on changing our deeply flawed monetary system.
They have organized excellent conferences, where experts, and researchers have pooled their knowledge and expanded awareness on the need for reform. He condemns most economists for obscuring the basic facts about money, how it is created, its structural flaws, which transfer wealth from the many to the few. He believes that governments not banks should create money, that the Federal Reserve should be nationalized, that private banks should not be allowed to create money out of thin air, siphoning wealth from others, and that governments have the right to create money and should spend it into existence on infrastructure projects that benefit people. The Green Party's National Committee working on monetary and economic policy matters have approved an historic, comprehensive Monetary Reform Plank in their 2010 Platform which includes all three of the necessary elements to achieve real reform that the American Monetary Institute has pushed for in its proposed American Monetary Act.
The 6th Annual AMI Monetary Reform Conference will be held Sept. 30 - Oct. 3rd in Chicago. Speakers include- Prof. Michael Hudson, author, Super Imperialism and Global Fracture; editor, Debt and Economic Renewal in the Ancient Near East; distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Missouri, Kansas City, and Chief Economic Advisor to the 2008 Kucinich for President campaign. Dr. Hudson was the first to publicly identify the mechanism of "Dollar Imperialism" through the U.S. balance of payments deficits. His talk will focus on the coming momentous monetary developments in the Icelandic and Latvian crises, and their implication for future crises resolutions. Top Australian monetary economist Steve Keen who just won the inaugural (Paul) Revere Award for giving an early warning (2005) of the present debt-deflation collapse. Dr. Michael Clark, of the United Nations, is the man who earlier this year sparked the recent issue of 240 billion new SDRs by the International Monetary Fund, though they had only issued 21 billion of them since inception in January 1970. Dr. Edward Chambers, President of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) will discuss- Organizing for Power, Action and Justice. Richard C. (Rick) Cook, a former federal government analyst who worked with Stephen Zarlenga on drafting the American Monetary Act while still with the U.S. Treasury. Rick was an adviser to Dennis Kucinich during the 2004 and 2008 Presidential campaigns will speak on democratizing the monetary system. Ben Dyson is a British monetary reformer, specializing in the necessary accounting techniques to achieve monetary reform by allowing banks to make loans without creating money and will address Monetary reform in Great Britain. William Bergman, economist and formerly an official at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, until he became a whistleblower on Fed practices. He will focus on the present condition of banking after the massive bailouts. Who won? At whose expense? Why won't the banks lend? What must be done now to get money into circulation? Carol Brouillet will speak on Strategy for the Monetary Reform Movement (Analyzing it though the Doing Democracy - MAP Model of Social Movements, as she did for the Truth Movement in Chicago in 2006).
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Stephen Zarlenga's website is http://www.monetary.org/
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Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial issues. A new edition of her latest book, "Web of Debt," is an essential analysis of the private banking system, how it usurped money creation power, and how we can take it back.
Brown's latest writing will be discussed.
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
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Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial issues. A new edition of her latest book, "Web of Debt," is an essential analysis of the private banking system, how it usurped money creation power, and how we can take it back.
Brown's latest writing will be discussed.
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
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Aired: 8/14/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Michael Hudson — "THE AMERICAN MONETARY ACT" Solving the Financial Crisis by Monetary Reform at home and abroad
Dr. Michael Hudson addresses the need for monetary reform at home and abroad and gives historical context to this need. See the article mentioned in Dr. Hudson’s speech here. For more information on the American Monetary Act being introduced into Congress visit the American Monetary Institute website, where you also can find information on the monetary conference coming up in Chicago on Sept 30, 2010. A American Monetary Institute Production from 2006, but still extremely relevant today.
The Economic Collapse Teach-in encompases upon some of the most highly controversial an crucial subjects of our day—the collapsing economy, the Federal Reserve, the Banks, Wall Street, financial fraud, forclosures, homelessness, unemployment, workers rights, unions, trade agreements, etc. We scour the world to find and gather debates and presentations that are extremely informative and educational. Related subjects are also discussed. It provides key information for the uninitiated and the initiated alike.
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
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Aired: 9/11/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 4: This episode is titled "An Update Interview with Stephen Zarlenga - pt. 4" and is being released on Tuesday, August 24, 2010. My interview with Stephen Zarlenga was recorded on August 24, 2010.
This is an update (part 4) of our series with Stephen Zarlenga looking deeper into the fundamental concepts of money: What is money and how is it defined? What is the difference between money and credit? What is the history of money? And why is any of this important for YOU to understand, and how could it possibly affect YOUR life?
Stephen Zarlenga is the founder of the American Monetary Institute (AMI) - the leading American monetary think tank for monetary history, theory and reform. An economic historian and author, Zarlenga provides us the clearest picture of how money and monetary systems work in his incredible 2002 tome The Lost Science of Money, and he's also the author of the American Monetary Act, submitted to congress by Dennis Kucinich in March of this year. If you have not already read his book, it is an absolute must read.
So don't attack the messanger, instead go out and buy the book and learn for yourself exactly how and why those who promote the gold standard are lying to you.
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Stephen Zarlenga's website is http://www.monetary.org/
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Aired: 8/24/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Michael Hudson has had a long, varied and distinguished career as a Wall Street insider, leading economist, expert on financial history, and Research Professor at the University of Missouri. He's also an author, consultant, head of a Harvard-based economic and financial history group, and president of the Institute for the Study of Long Term Economic Trends (INSLET).
Hudson's latest economic views will be discussed, including his recent article on Europe's Fiscal Dystopia: The New Austerity Road to Financial Serfdom.
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
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Aired: 7/15/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
"America's Fiscal Collapse - Obama's Budget Will Impoverish America" with economist and author, Michel Chossudovsky. The administration's 2010 budget will entail the most drastic curtailment in public spending in American history, leading to social havoc and the potential impoverishment of millions of people. Defense spending and bank bailouts will consume all government revenue resulting in fiscal collapse that will lead to the privatization of the state.
America's Fiscal Collapse: by Michel Chossudovsky
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Michel Chossudovsky's website is: http://globalresearch.ca
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Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In The Web of Debt- The Shocking Truth About Our Money System And How We Can Break Free, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back.
Brown developed an interest in the developing world and its problems while living abroad for eleven years in Kenya, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. She returned to practicing law when she was asked to join the legal team of a popular Tijuana healer with an innovative cancer therapy, who was targeted by the chemotherapy industry in the 1990s. That experience produced her book Forbidden Medicine, which traces the suppression of natural health treatments to the same corrupting influences that have captured the money system. her recent articles include: The Secret Bailout of J. P. Morgan: How Insider Trading Looted Bear Stearns and the American Taxpayer and Credit Default Swaps: Evolving Financial Meltdown and Derivative Disaster Du Jour.
Ellen also attended and was energized by the Building a New World Conference" and full of ideas on what we could do- including starting our own bank! Her understanding of the Constitution, history, the frauds and crimes committed by the banks and the officials assisting them in their looting activities are enormous and inspiring. There are huge numbers of people that could be educated and organized to stand up for their rights, their homes, at this moment in time. Despite the direness of the situation, reform is long overdue and the situation is bad enough so that people are unlikely to tolerate a blatantly bad system, if introduced to a betterone that would serve (rather than fleece) their communities and their country. More people are waking up and organizing and Ellen remained hopeful and optimistic. Do check out her excellent book, and articles!
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
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Richard Cook is a former federal government analyst who was one of the key figures in the investigation of the space shuttle Challenger disaster.
In 1985, he went to work for NASA as the lead resource analyst for the space shuttle solid rocket boosters, external tank, and Centaur upper stage. Cook’s first assignment led to his writing a memo on engineers’ concerns that flaws with the solid rocket booster O-ring seals could cause the shuttle to blow up. In 1986, after the Challenger disaster, he disrupted a NASA cover-up when he provided his memo, along with other documents on the hazards of the O-rings, to the New York Times. His disclosures paved the way for revelations by engineers from Morton Thiokol, Inc., about how they opposed the launch of Challenger the night before lift-off.
Called to testify before the Presidential Commission at an internationally televised public hearing, Cook stood his ground when his experience and competence were challenged. He continued to contribute to the investigation during interviews with Commission staff and the NASA Office of Inspector General and in meetings with Senator Ernest Hollings, who was trying to raise issues before the Senate on whether there had been White House pressure to launch Challenger.
In addition to extensive interviews with the media after the disaster, Cook published articles in the Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Space and Security News, and the Houston Post; gave a press conference with the Institute of Space and Security Studies, where he said that the Presidential Commission had been created to cover-up the role of the White House in the launch decision; and wrote a report which he submitted to the U.S. Justice Department with a request for a new investigation. In 1991, he was the recipient of the Cavallo Foundation Award for Moral Courage in Business and Government, sharing the award with Roger Boisjoly of Morton Thiokol.
Before joining NASA, Cook worked as an analyst for the U.S. Civil Service Commission, where he received extensive training in federal government operations. He then worked for the Food and Drug Administration and next served in the Jimmy Carter White House under Esther Peterson, special assistant to the president for consumer affairs. He also taught history at the Field School, a private high school in Washington, D.C.
Cook left NASA to become an analyst with the U.S. Treasury Department in 1986. There he developed and taught training courses on policy analysis and led project teams on financial policy and organizational restructuring. He authored Challenger Revealed- An Insider’s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age in 2006. He retired from the federal government in January 2007 and works today as a writer, lecturer, and consultant. His website is richardccook.com.
Cook graduated with honors from the College of William and Mary, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He resides in College Park, Maryland.
One of his areas of interest has been the monetary system and he has written a series of articles about the current financial crisis including- Extraordinary Times, Intentional Collapse, and Takedown of the U.S.A., Has the Battle for America Begun?, and An Emergency Program of Monetary Reform for the United States.
He spoke recently on Will We See the End of the Empire in Our Time? at the Building a New World Conference". His forthcoming book is entitled We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform and he can be contacted regarding the book at economicsanity@gmail.com.
Richard spoke about the current crisis we're in, particularly what is not reported in the press or widely understood by the public about money creation, debt, and credit and the financial shenanigans that are impoverishing the country. He also oferred his ideas for monetary reform, including the abolition of the Federal Reserve, national control over the creation of credit and a citizen's dividend.
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Richard C. Cook's website is: http://www.richardccook.com
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Hudson – IMF Austerity for Prosperity: How sovereignty has been surrendered, what economics should be looking at and China’s dollar surplus conundrum – isolationism the answer? Music by Lucky Dragon www.earthsharing.org.au
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Aired: 06/23/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Catherine Austin Fitts is an investment advisor, entrepreneur, former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner under GHW Bush, and former Managing Director and board member of the Wall Street firm, Dillon Read & Co., Inc.
She's now editor of Solari.com and runs Solari, Inc. as an "online media company focused on ethical investment and preserving family wealth. Long ago, (she promised never again to) act against the best interests (of her) own people (and do her best) to leave a better world for generations to come."
Her latest economic and global views will be discussed.
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Catherine Austin Fitts' website is http://www.solari.com/
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Aired: 6/21/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial issues. A new edition of her latest book, "Web of Debt," is now out - a vitally important analysis of the private banking cartel Federal Reserve, how it usurped money creation power, and how we can take it back.
The Daily Bell "Compendium of Free-Market Thought" says "in modern economic thought (there are now) Keynsians, Austrians and Brownians."
Brown's latest writing will be discussed.
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
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Aired: 6/20/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
"Europe's Financial Class War Against Labor, Industry and Government" with Dr. Michael Hudson. Economic crisis in Europe created by predatory lending; European Central Bank stranglehold on the Eurozone; the Euro; foreign banks decimate Greece's social structure; Marx's industrial capital versus fictitious capital; Latvia as a model for the rest of Europe; Hudson's financial and fiscal plan for Latvia; the Cold War and its ruinous effect on progressive economic thought.
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: KPFA Guns & Butter
Aired: 6/16/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
"The Financial Hijacking of America" with author, Ellen Brown. Brief history of banking; two ways to create money, either publicly or privately; credit creates money and debt; the Federal Reserve; bubbles and crashes; market manipulation; recent changes in banking and accounting rules; securitization; Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland; the need for state owned banks.
Guns and Butter, for June 9, 2010 - 1:00pm
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
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Land rent, Economic rent: The Earth’s Worth Secretly Supported by Economists: Bryan Kavanagh analyses the Henry Tax Review following Karl’s salvo on global economic issues.
On his death in 1988, Hutchinson was succeeded by Bryan Kavanagh. As a professional property valuer and a student of Georgist economics, Kavanagh knew that the land market is characterized by bubble-burst cycles and that the bursts are followed by recessions in the wider economy. On this basis he had predicted, in an article published in The Valuer in July 1987, that the next recession would be in 1991/2. This was correct to within one year. Seeking a reliable method of diagnosing a land bubble, Kavanagh began aggregating statistics on property turnover in the several Australian States since 1972, and eventually noticed that whenever the turnover exceeded 19% of GDP in a nationwide trend, and then returned below 19% (as it always did), recession followed within 2 years. He concluded that the ratio of property turnover to GDP is a veritable barometer of the economy, and that a ratio exceeding 19% indicates an economically damaging bubble. He is therefore unimpressed by the Greenspan doctrine that one cannot recognize a bubble until it bursts. Australian real estate re-entered bubble territory, according to Kavanagh's criterion, in 1999 or 2000.
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Bryan Kavanagh blogs at the Land Values Research Group: Economics as if location matters (Prosper Australia)
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Land rent, Economic rent, Financial regulation: Debt Saturation: Prof Steve Keen sums up the motivating factors for debt as a free hit for policymakers. He also serves up a few critiques of geonomics. All fun and games – www.earthsharing.org.au
Australian economist Professor Steve Keen (University of Western Sydney) winner of the inaugural Revere Award for Economics (2nd and 3rd place finishers Nouriel Roubini of New York University and Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research) and judged the economist who first and most cogently warned the world of the coming Global Financial Crisis argues that we are in a period of debt deflation and unemployment induced by debt saturation – particularly in the private sector – and deleveraging.
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Professor Steve Keen's website is Steve Keen’s Debtwatch
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Aired: 4/21/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Peace Revolution episode 005: OVERSTOCKED / How Naked Short-Selling and Counterfeiting Stocks Create Cascading Economic Failures / an Interview with Dr. Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock dot com
What happens when you take a doctor of philosophy who's the CEO of an $800 million dollar company- and make him a victim of naked short selling and Wall Street fraud- and put him together with a Wall Street whistle-blower who was on the inside selling the so-called "compliance" software used to hide the evidence of these crimes against humanity?
Sit back and hold on because if you thought discussing Wall Street and finance was boring, you're about to have your mind blown wide open. This is it folks. This is how the whole scam works - from top to bottom.
Beginning in 2005, Byrne become known for his campaign against naked short selling, a practice which he says has been used in violation of securities law to hurt the price of his and other companies' stock. Under his direction, Overstock.com has filed two lawsuits alleging improper acts by Wall Street firms, a hedge fund, and an independent research firm.
As a prerequisite to this interview, it's highly recommended that you visit Gnostic Media’s podcast and listen to episodes 49 and 50 on the Trivium Method of Thinking Critically (the format used to formulate the questions in this interview) with Gene Odening, and episode #62 with Dr. Michael Lobossiere on logical fallacies. The application of the 7 liberal arts is discussed throughout this current interview.
49: http://gnosticmedia.podomatic.com/entry/2009-10-25T22_26_49-07_00
50: http://gnosticmedia.podomatic.com/entry/2009-11-01T23_11_48-08_00
62: http://gnosticmedia.podomatic.com/entry/2010-01-25T09_41_32-08_00
Also referenced in this episode is Jan’s interview via Gnostic Media’s Podcast #16 with Dr. John Loftus - the former top US Justice Dept. Prosecutor under the Carter and Reagan administrations. In that interview we discuss the US creation of al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.
16: http://premium.gnosticmedia.podomatic.com/entry/2009-02-01T23_49_41-08_00
If you would like more information about Dr. Byrne’s research on Wall Street and Naked Short Selling, go to http://www.deepcapture.com, and for more information regarding Dr. Byrne, go to http://www.overstock.com
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Dr. Patrick Byrne's website is http://www.deepcapture.com
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Guns and Butter, for May 5, 2010 - 1:00pm
"From the Greek Tragedy to the Battle of the Bank of England and the U.S. Fed" with French economist, Franck Biancheri. Signs of the coming break-up of Anglo-Saxon financial domination; trends for the second half of 2010; coverage of the Greek problem; the Euro and the Eurozone; bank bailouts; interest rates; money to fund the huge western public debt becoming increasingly difficult to find.
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Franck Biancheri's website is: http://www.franck-biancheri.info
Source: KPFA Guns & Butter
Aired: 5/5/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 5: Jim Rickards: Possible DOJ investigation of JP Morgan — "What Could Be the Largest Fraud in History" — King World News (Saturday, May 1, 2010)
Ted is interviewed each week exclusively on KWN and is followed by many institutions including Sprott Assett Management. In this interview Ted stated, “More important and more serious than what's currently happening with Goldman Sachs, this is a crime in progress, this is an allegation of current market manipulation. This is as serious as you get, you don't get bigger than market manipulation.” Whistleblower Andrew Maguire credited Ted Butler as being the inspiration for coming forward to the CFTC with his complaint against JP Morgan’s alleged metals market manipulation Ted has researched the commodity markets actively for 3 decades. Ted is internationally well known for his writings on silver, gold, commodities and his COT (commitment of traders) report.
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Source: King World News
Aired: 5/1/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 4: Ted Butler: Possible DOJ investigation of JP Morgan — "What Could Be the Largest Fraud in History" — King World News (Saturday, May 1, 2010)
Ted is interviewed each week exclusively on KWN and is followed by many institutions including Sprott Assett Management. In this interview Ted stated, “More important and more serious than what's currently happening with Goldman Sachs, this is a crime in progress, this is an allegation of current market manipulation. This is as serious as you get, you don't get bigger than market manipulation.” Whistleblower Andrew Maguire credited Ted Butler as being the inspiration for coming forward to the CFTC with his complaint against JP Morgan’s alleged metals market manipulation Ted has researched the commodity markets actively for 3 decades. Ted is internationally well known for his writings on silver, gold, commodities and his COT (commitment of traders) report.
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Source: King World News
Aired: 5/1/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 3: Harvey & Lenny Organ & Adrian Douglas: Drop Another Bombshell In What Could End Up Being The Largest Fraud In History - I was contacted again by Adrian Douglas, Board of Director for Gata with another stunning new bombshell involving the man he testified with at the CFTC meeting Harvey Organ. Harvey, who was invited by the CFTC to testify and his son Lenny describe an eyewitness account with another piece of the puzzle in what could turn out to be the largest fraud in history. This time a large international bank with almost 15 million customers in 50 countries around the world becomes part of this unfolding saga. It is so hard to believe and unimaginable so let’s continue our trip down the rabbit hole with another King World News exclusive interview.
To read “Hong Kong Pulls All Gold Reserves From Depositories In London” click here.
To read “Morgan Stanley To Settle Class-Action Lawsuit” click here.
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Source: King World News
Aired: 4/7/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
PART 3: James Ayers discusses Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone exposé of Goldman Sachs in his July 2009 article "The Great American Bubble Machine".
James Ayers is the producer and presenter of the "Plains FM" radio show "Corporate Nemesis", a show dedicated to exposing the greed and lies of corporations, particularly multinational corporations.
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James Ayers' website is: "Corporate Nemesis"
Source: "Corporate Nemesis"
Aired: 12/8/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
PART 2: James Ayers discusses Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone exposé of Goldman Sachs in his July 2009 article "The Great American Bubble Machine".
James Ayers is the producer and presenter of the "Plains FM" radio show "Corporate Nemesis", a show dedicated to exposing the greed and lies of corporations, particularly multinational corporations.
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James Ayers' website is: "Corporate Nemesis"
Source: "Corporate Nemesis"
Aired: 12/1/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
PART 1: James Ayers discusses Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone exposé of Goldman Sachs in his July 2009 article "The Great American Bubble Machine".
James Ayers is the producer and presenter of the "Plains FM" radio show "Corporate Nemesis", a show dedicated to exposing the greed and lies of corporations, particularly multinational corporations.
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James Ayers' website is: "Corporate Nemesis"
Source: "Corporate Nemesis"
Aired: 11/24/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
James Ayers discusses the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) civil lawsuit against Goldman Sachs.
James Ayers is the producer and presenter of the "Plains FM" radio show "Corporate Nemesis", a show dedicated to exposing the greed and lies of corporations, particularly multinational corporations.
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James Ayers' website is: "Corporate Nemesis"
Source: "Corporate Nemesis"
Aired: 4/27/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Ellen Brown discusses the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) civil lawsuit against Goldman Sachs.
Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial issues. A new edition of her extraordinary book, "Web of Deb," is now available. It's a brilliant analysis of the private banking cartel Federal Reserve, how it usurped money creation power, and how we can take it back.
The Daily Bell "Compendium of Free-Market Thought" awarded Brown her own title, saying "in modern economic thought (there are) now Keynsians, Austrians and Brownians.
Brown's latest writing will be discussed.
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
Source: Progressive Radio Network
Aired: 4/18/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Land rent, Economic rent: Conflict of Interest: An interview with the wise one Wendell Fitzgerald on the conflict that land owning MP’s and bankers face. Conflict of ‘interest’ has a whole new perspective for BANKERS. A special extra long (podcasters only) edition as we get to the core of the issue.
Wendell Fitzgerald discusses the merits of land tax vs income tax and how a land tax - a tax on unearned income, a free ride - could remove the requirement for income, value added, sales or any other tax on earned income.
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Source: earthsharing.org.au
Aired: 8/27/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
We know what's wrong with the economy: money itself is created out of nothing in the form of debt owed to private bankers. How then to fix the problem? Return money to a gold backing? Let the government print as much debt-free money as it needs? Or something else entirely. We explore the issues in this week's episode of The Corbett Report
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James Corbett's website is: http://www.corbettreport.com/
Source: The Corbett Report
Aired: 2008/09/14 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Whatever one thinks of Andrew Jackson and his legacy, he was surely never one to back down from a fight. So when he took on the Second Bank of the United States it was an unstoppable force against an immovable object. In short, the bank never knew what hit it. Find out how Andrew Jackson killed the bank on this week's episode of The Corbett Report.
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James Corbett's website is: http://www.corbettreport.com/
Source: The Corbett Report
Aired: 2010/04/11 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
"Monetary Reform" with Stephen Zarlenga, author of the book- The Lost Science of Money - The Mythology of Money - The Story of Power. Zarlenga has over three decades of practical experience in the world of finance and spent over twelve years doing the historical research to write his book. The final chapter is the solution he offers based upon his knowledge and understanding of money, and the failures of past attempts at monetary reform. His idea is modelled upon the work of other economists, and has been written into legislative language which should someday come before Congress. He believes that daunting though the struggle may appear, we must not give up because our future depends on changing our deeply flawed monetary system. He founded the American Monetary Institute, which strives to educate the public and Congress about money and the need for reform. They have organized excellent conferences, where experts and researchers have pooled their knowledge and expanded awareness on the need for reform. He condemns most economists for obscuring the basic facts about money, how it is created, its structural flaws, which transfer wealth from the many to the few. He believes that governments not banks should create money, that the Federal Reserve should be nationalized, that private banks should not be allowed to create money out of thin air, siphoning wealth from others, and that governments have the right to create money and should spend it into existence on infrastructure projects that benefit people. The American Monetary Institute's website is www.monetary.org. The next annual Monetary Reform Conference will be held Sept. 30 - Oct. 3rd in Chicago.
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Stephen Zarlenga's website is http://www.monetary.org/
Source: Progressive Radio Network
Aired: 4/08/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
The real story of the last 500 years has been the struggle of humanity to wrest itself from the clutches of the bankers who create our money out of thin air, but you won't read that in the history (or economics) textbooks. Find out what else you're missing as we delve into Economics 101 with John Williams, G. Edward Griffin, F. William Engdahl and Catherine Austin Fitts.
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James Corbett's website is: http://www.corbettreport.com/
Source: The Corbett Report
Aired: 2010/03/07 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
This week we examine the startling fact that the central banking system under which our economy operates is a scam designed to benefit private banking interests. We use clips from "The Money Masters" documentary to outline this claim and examine its implications.
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James Corbett's website is: http://www.corbettreport.com/
Source: The Corbett Report
Aired: 06/29/2007 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Harry M. Markopolos or Harry Markopoulos (born October 22, 1956 in Erie, Pennsylvania) is a former securities industry executive turned independent financial fraud investigator for institutional investors and others seeking forensic accounting expertise. He has risen to prominence as an early and unheeded whistleblower of suspected securities fraud by Bernard Madoff, tipping off the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) repeatedly both orally and in writing starting in 1999, when he argued that it was not legally possible for Madoff to deliver the returns he had claimed to deliver.[1][2]
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1. Douglas, Craig M (December 16, 2008). "Madoff had early skeptic in Boston gumshoe". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved December 22, 2008.
2. Wagner, Daniel; Pete Yost (December 21, 2008). "SEC has been slow to react to fraud claims". Associated Press. Retrieved December 22, 2008.
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Source: King World News
Aired: 3/2/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 2: Whistleblower Exposes JP Morgan's Silver Manipulation Scheme. GATA: Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee - In this interview with GATA we continue the saga after just having interviewed Andrew Maguire, the whistleblower out of London. This gives a short and long-term view down the rabbit hole through the eyes of GATA board members. GATA was so heavily involved not only in breaking the news at the CFTC meeting about metals manipulation but quite possibly uncovered the largest fraud in history. This GATA Roundtable features Bill Murphy, Chris Powell & Adrian Douglas.
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Adrian Douglas's website is: http://gata.org/
Source: King World News
Aired: 3/31/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 1: Whistleblower Exposes JP Morgan's Silver Manipulation Scheme. Andrew Maguire & Adrian Douglas: Discuss What Could Be the Largest Fraud in History - Andrew is an independent metals trader turned whistleblower at the center of a storm for exposing what could be the largest fraud in history involving countries, banks and government leaders. Adrian Douglas Board of Director from GATA, the man who Andrew reached out to joins in this interview where they discuss a fraud so extraordinary and so unimaginable that it is the kind of thing that only happens in hollywood thrillers. They also discuss the CFTC sponsored meeting on metals which was an unmitigated disaster because it additionally exposed the fraud on a grander scale.
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Adrian Douglas's website is: http://gata.org/
Source: King World Newsk
Aired: 3/30/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial issues. A new addition of her latest book, Web of Debt, is a brilliant analysis of the private banking cartel Federal Reserve, how it usurped money creation power, and how we can take it back.
The Daily Bell "Compendium of Free-Market Thought" awarded Brown her own title, saying "in modern economic thought, (there are) now Keynsians, Austrians and Brownians.
Brown's latest writing will be discussed.
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
Source: Progressive Radio Network
Aired: 3/28/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
“The aim of all social reform is to bring prices in line with the cost of production”
Dr. Hudson discusses the current Global Economic Collapse with the perspective of the last 100 years, classical economics, and the failure of global social democratic movements to devise a feasible economic alternative. Dr. Hudson gave this address in Australia in late 2009.
Dr. Hudson was the Chief Economic Policy Advisor for the Kucinich for President campaign, and is writing a new tax policy for the United States. He is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trend, a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and author of “Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire”.
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: noliesradio.org 3cr
Aired: 03/27/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
"The Gift Economy" with Charles Eisenstein, author of the book- The Ascent of Humanity- The Age of Separation, the Age of Reunion, and the convergence of crises that is birthing the transition. Charles is currently writing an expansion of the hopeful ideas of Humanity's reunion with nature and a rediscovery of the "gift economy." He sees humanity making the transition from adolescence towards adulthood, overcoming the crises which currently threaten us ans seem somewhat insurmountable. While noting the increasing problems caused by technology, he also sees how approriate technology can help us move towards a genuine healing phase where much of the damage humanity has caused can be remediated. He will be conducting "Seeding Gift Culture" workshops and retreats in April and speaking at the upcoming http://futureofmoney.com/moneyconference/ Future of Money and Technology Summit in San Francisco on April 26th.
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Charles Eisenstein's website is: http://www.ascentofhumanity.com
Source: Progressive Radio Network
Aired: 3/25/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Today's guest is Dr. Michael Hudson and he is one of our nation's important economists and Wall Street financial analysts.
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: Progressive Radio Network
Aired: 3/23/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
"Money, Money, Money" with Mike Nickerson, author of the book- Life, Money and Illusion- Living on Earth as if we want to stay. Mike is a visionary activist who was a co-director of the Institute for the Study of Cultural Evolution back in the 70's. His book and this show are an exploration of the human nature, our civilization, illusions and new indicators to help us navigate through the growth/evolutionary process. Mike Nickerson is a longtime environmental activist, popular educator and the author of three books on sustainability including Bakavi: Change the World I Want to Stay On and Planning For Seven Generations: Guideposts for a Sustainable Future. He is a founding member of the Green Party of Canada and helped draft the Canada Well-Being Measurement Act. His website is http://www.SustainWellBeing.net.
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Mike Nickerson's website is: http://www.sustainwellbeing.net/
Source: Progressive Radio Network
Aired: 3/18/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
The Possibility of Creating a State Bank in California with Ellen Brown, author of The Web of Debt- The Shocking Truth About Our Monetary System and How We Can Break Free, and Laura Wells, running for the nomination of the Green Party for Governor of California. Ellen wrote an article entitled 'CALIFORNIA DREAMIN': HOW THE STATE CAN BEAT ITS BUDGET WOES citing the successful example of North Dakota's State Bank to help California steer a new path through its economic crisis. Her article has inspired others to begin drafting legislation to create a state bank for California. Laura Wells, with her background in finance, management and political innovation, has garnered more votes than any other Green Party candidate for state office, when she ran for State Controller on a "Follow the Money" platform. She embraces the idea of a state bank and reshifting taxes from people to corporations.
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
Source: Progressive Radio Network
Aired: 3/18/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
A new report by a group of prominent economists this week warned that banks are still engaged in high-risk investing activity that is making another, potentially bigger financial crisis not only likely, but inevitable. The group includes Rob Johnson of the United Nations Commission of Experts on Finance, plus Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel to oversee the bank bailout. The report, commissioned by the Roosevelt Institute, points out how banks are using borrowed funds to take risks similar to the ones that crashed the economy in 2007 in order to continue to pay big dividends to share-holders and obscenely large bonuses to executives. The economists also urge the President and Congress to strengthen proposed financial regulations to stem the new crisis-in-making, and called out Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke and Treasure Secretary Timothy Geithner for overseeing “policy as the bubble was inflating.” The report said, now “these same men now designing our ‘rescue.’” The report used unusually strong language to warn could happen if no action was taken: “What will happen when the next shock hits? We may be nearing the stage where the answer will be — just as it was in the Great Depression — a calamitous global collapse.”
Read the Roosevelt Institute’s report at http://www.makemarketsbemarkets.org/report/MakeMarketsBeMarkets.pdf
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GUEST: Max Fraad-Wolff, an instructor at the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School University who regularly writes on the economy
Max Fraad-Wolff's website is The New School
Source: Uprising Radio
Aired: 3/4/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 3: This show is being released on Monday, March 01, 2010. My interview with Steve Zarlenga was recorded on February 23, 2010.
Stephen Zarlenga of the American Monetary Institute has become a regular guest on the Gnostic Media program, and we love having him on. After our series that we completed a few months ago, some people from the Austrian school of economics were upset about the interviews with Stephen, and one of them wrote a long article that was posted to the Ludwig von Mises Institute website (http://mises.org/daily/4102) of the Austrian school attacking Stephen and the interview.
Stephen returns for our 3rd interview together for his critical rejoinder to the Ludwig von Mises Institute website article by Kaj Grüssner. Whether your an economist or not, this is another interview you that won't want to miss.
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Stephen Zarlenga's website is http://www.monetary.org/
Source: Gnostic Media
Aired: 3/1/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
GUEST: Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial issues. Her latest book, "Web of Debt," is a brilliant analysis of the private banking cartel Federal Reserve, how it usurped money creation power, and how we can take it back.
A new "Web of Debt" edition is due out in March.
The Daily Bell "Compendium of Free-Market Thought" awarded Brown a title of her own, saying "There are in (their) opinion, in modern economic thought, now Keynsians, Austrians and Brownians."
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 2/22/10 12:00 AM
Source: Progressive Radio Network
Aired: 2/23/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Guns and Butter - The New Junk Economics: From Democracy to Neoliberal Oligarchy
"The New Junk Economics: From Democracy to Neoliberal Oligarchy" with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. We discuss the Federal Reserve; money as debt; Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's misconception of the causes of the great depression of the 1930's; classical political economy versus anti-classical, so-called "neoclassical", economics; the labor theory of value; the dollar carry trade; government deficit spending; Greece.
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: KPFA Guns & Butter
Aired: 2/10/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
GUEST: Catherine Austin Fitts is an investment advisor, entrepreneur, former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner under GHW Bush, and former Managing Director and board member of the Wall Street firm, Dillon Read & Co., Inc.
She's now editor of Solari.com and runs Solari, Inc. as an "online media company focused on ethical investment and preserving family wealth. Long ago, (she) made a promise (never again to) act against the best interests (of her) own people (and to do her best) to leave a better world for generations to come."
Fitts' latest views on the economy, corporate pillaging, and overall conditions in the country will be discussed, especially now that Democrats have lost their Senate supermajority.
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Catherine Austin Fitts' website is http://www.solari.com/
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 2/5/10 12:00 AM
Source: Progressive Radio Network
Aired: 2/8/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Guns and Butter - Obama's Republican Class War Presidency
"Obama's Republican Class War Presidency" with financial economist, Michael Hudson, on Obama's State of the Union Speech and its economic consequences. The reappointment Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke.
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: KPFA Guns & Butter
Aired: 2/3/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Stephen Zarlenga is Director of the American Monetary Institute (AMI), a publicly supported charity involved in conducting research on the nature of money, its role in controlling societies, and the importance of reforming a broken system to achieve economic justice.
Zarlenga is a noted expert on issues related to finance, securities, insurance, mutual funds, real estate, and futures trading. He's written 20 books on money, banking, politics and philosophy, including "The Lost Science of Money" that "exposes the mythology created to protect those who are embezzling from society" by controlling the nation's money.
The result is a structurally corrupted political economy with elected officials the handmaidens of Wall Street, an unprecedented wealth disparity between the rich and most others, and a society in decay heading for ruin and tyranny unless stopped.
That topic will be discussed and Zarlenga's prescription for change.
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Stephen Zarlenga's website is http://www.monetary.org/
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 1/22/10 12:00 AM
Source: Progressive Radio Network
Aired: 1/25/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
GUEST: Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial issues. He latest book, "Web of Debt," is a brilliant analysis of the private banking cartel Federal Reserve, how it usurped money creation power, and how we can take it back.
The Daily Bell "Compendium of Free-Market Thought" recently awarded her a title of her own, saying "There are in (their) opinion, in modern economic thought, now Keynsians, Austrians and Brownians."
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 1/19/10 12:00 AM
Source: Progressive Radio Network
Aired: 1/20/10 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
GUEST: Michael Hudson has had a long, varied and distinguished career as a Wall Street insider, leading economist, expert on financial history, and Research Professor at the University of Missouri. He's also an author, consultant, head of a Harvard-based economic and financial history group, and president of the Institute for the Study of Long Term Economic Trends (INSLET).
Hudson's important book, "Super Imperialism" was updated in 2003, and is extremely relevant given today's economic situation.
Discussion will focus on Hudson's economic views heading into 2010.
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 12/29/09 12:00 AM
Source: Progressive Radio Network
Aired: 12/30/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
GUEST: Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial issues. He latest book, "Web of Debt," is a brilliant analysis of the private banking cartel Federal Reserve, how it usurped money creation power, and how we can take it back.
The Daily Bell "Compendium of Free-Market Thought" recently awarded her a title of her own, saying "There are in (their) opinion, in modern economic thought, now Keynsians, Austrians and Brownians."
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 1/19/10 12:00 AM
Source: Progressive Radio Network
Aired: 12/24/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 2: This show is being released on Monday, the Solstice, December 21, 2009. My interview with Stephen Zarlenga was recorded on Dec. 15, 2009.
This is part 2 of our series with Stephen Zarlenga where we look deep into the fundamental concepts of money: What is money and how is it defined? What is the difference between money and credit? What is the history of money? How does it tie to religion, government and private business? Is nationalizing the money system socialist, and does this concept of money ignore "the libertarian issue"? What is FIAT money? Is there a difference between private versus nationalized banks and how they operate? Has there ever been a society on the gold standard that did not fall to slavery or serfdom? And why is any of this important for YOU to understand, and how could it possibly affect YOUR life?
Stephen Zarlenga is the founder of the American Monetary Institute (AMI) - the leading American monetary think tank for monetary history, theory and reform. An economic historian and author, Zarlenga provides us the clearest picture of how money and monetary systems work in his incredible 2002 tome The Lost Science of Money, and he's also the author of the American Monetary Act, submitted to congress by Dennis Kucinich in March of this year. If you have not already read his book, it is an absolute must read.
So don't attack the messanger, instead go out and buy the book and learn for yourself exactly how and why those who promote the gold standard are lying to you.
Frontline: The Warning http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/view/
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Stephen Zarlenga's website is http://www.monetary.org/
Source: Gnostic Media
Aired: 12/20/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
“As broadcast on the mighty www.3cr.org.au – Professor Michael Hudson excels in describing globalisation from a financial snipers perspective, analysing how real estate (land) is used in the game of currency siphoning out of Latvia, Eastern Europe and Russia. What does neo-liberalism deliver? Who is behind the controls? Also gold, white collar sub-prime crime and GW’s departing deception.”
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: noliesradio.org 3cr
Aired: 12/19/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Amidst fading hopes for real reform on issues ranging from high finance to health care, economist Robert Kuttner and journalist Matt Taibbi join Bill Moyers to discuss Wall Street's power over the federal government. And, The JOURNAL profiles Steve Meacham, a Massachusetts community organizer fighting to keep working people in their homes. Plus, Bill Moyers picks his favorite books from 2009.
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Bill Moyers' website is http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/
Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Aired: 12/18/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
GUEST: Bill Still is a former newspaper editor and publisher. He's written for major publications, produced the syndicated radio program, Health News, authored 22 books, and made three feature-length documentary videos.
His latest, titled "The Secret of Oz," features well-known "Wizard of Oz" symbols that provide solutions to today's economic problems. The film and its importance will be discussed.
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Bill Still's website is: http://secretofoz.com/
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 12/16/09 12:00 AM
Source: Progressive Radio Network
Aired: 12/17/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
GUEST: Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial matters. Her latest book, Web of Debt, is a brilliant analysis of the private banking cartel Federal Reserve, how it usurped money creation power, and how we can take it back.
The Daily Bell, "A Compendium of Free-Market Thought," recently "awarded her a title all her own....Their are in (their) opinion, in modern economic thought, now Keynesians, Austrians and Brownians."
Brown's latest writing will be discussed.
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 11/23/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 8 (FINAL): Anatomy of a Financial Coup D'Etat: Wall Street, Banksters, Feds and Fascism.
Dennis Bernstein and Catherine Austin Fitts discuss the "Anatomy of a Financial Coup D'Etat", how a Washington-Wall Street partnership had:
* Engineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble;
* Illegally shifted vast amounts of capital out of the U.S.;
* Used “privitization” as a form of piracy - a pretext to move government assets to private investors at below-market prices and then shift private liabilities back to government at no cost to the private liability holder.
Dennis Bernstein is the producer and co-host of the radio news program, Flashpoints Radio on Pacifica Radio.
Catherine Austin Fitts is the president of Solari, Inc., the publisher of The Solari Report, managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC. Fitts served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration, and was the president of Hamilton Securities Group, Inc., an investment bank and financial software developer.
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Catherine Austin Fitts' website is http://www.solari.com/
Aired: (M/DD/YY) 11/10/09 12:00 AM
Source: Grinning Planet KPFA Flashpoints
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GUEST: Catherine Austin Fitts is an investment advisor, entrepreneur, former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner under GHW Bush, and former Managing Director and board member of the Wall Street firm, Dillon Read & Co., Inc.
She's now editor of Solari.com and runs Solari, Inc. as an "online media company focused on ethical investment and preserving family wealth.
Discussion will focus on www.Solari.com, Fitts' latest views on the economy, plus some background on the genesis of today's crisis.
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Catherine Austin Fitts' website is http://www.solari.com/
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 11/6/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 7: Anatomy of a Financial Coup D'Etat: Wall Street, Banksters, Feds and Fascism.
Dennis Bernstein and Catherine Austin Fitts discuss the "Anatomy of a Financial Coup D'Etat", how a Washington-Wall Street partnership had:
* Engineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble;
* Illegally shifted vast amounts of capital out of the U.S.;
* Used “privitization” as a form of piracy - a pretext to move government assets to private investors at below-market prices and then shift private liabilities back to government at no cost to the private liability holder.
Dennis Bernstein is the producer and co-host of the radio news program, Flashpoints Radio on Pacifica Radio.
Catherine Austin Fitts is the president of Solari, Inc., the publisher of The Solari Report, managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC. Fitts served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration, and was the president of Hamilton Securities Group, Inc., an investment bank and financial software developer.
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Catherine Austin Fitts' website is http://www.solari.com/
Aired: (M/DD/YY) 11/04/09 12:00 AM
Source: Grinning Planet KPFA Flashpoints
Source: KPFAThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 6: Anatomy of a Financial Coup D'Etat: Wall Street, Banksters, Feds and Fascism.
Dennis Bernstein and Catherine Austin Fitts discuss the "Anatomy of a Financial Coup D'Etat", how a Washington-Wall Street partnership had:
* Engineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble;
* Illegally shifted vast amounts of capital out of the U.S.;
* Used “privitization” as a form of piracy - a pretext to move government assets to private investors at below-market prices and then shift private liabilities back to government at no cost to the private liability holder.
Dennis Bernstein is the producer and co-host of the radio news program, Flashpoints Radio on Pacifica Radio.
Catherine Austin Fitts is the president of Solari, Inc., the publisher of The Solari Report, managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC. Fitts served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration, and was the president of Hamilton Securities Group, Inc., an investment bank and financial software developer.
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Catherine Austin Fitts' website is http://www.solari.com/
Aired: (M/DD/YY) 11/02/09 12:00 AM
Source: Grinning Planet KPFA Flashpoints
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GUEST: Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial matters. Her latest book, Web of Debt, is a brilliant analysis of the private banking cartel Federal Reserve, how it usurped money creation power, and how we can take it back.
The Daily Bell, "A Compendium of Free-Market Thought," recently "awarded her a title all her own....Their are in (their) opinion, in modern economic thought, now Keynesians, Austrians and Brownians."
Brown's latest writing will be discussed.
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 10/28/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 5: Anatomy of a Financial Coup D'Etat: Wall Street, Banksters, Feds and Fascism.
Dennis Bernstein and Catherine Austin Fitts discuss the "Anatomy of a Financial Coup D'Etat", how a Washington-Wall Street partnership had:
* Engineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble;
* Illegally shifted vast amounts of capital out of the U.S.;
* Used “privitization” as a form of piracy - a pretext to move government assets to private investors at below-market prices and then shift private liabilities back to government at no cost to the private liability holder.
Dennis Bernstein is the producer and co-host of the radio news program, Flashpoints Radio on Pacifica Radio.
Catherine Austin Fitts is the president of Solari, Inc., the publisher of The Solari Report, managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC. Fitts served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration, and was the president of Hamilton Securities Group, Inc., an investment bank and financial software developer.
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Catherine Austin Fitts' website is http://www.solari.com/
Aired: (M/DD/YY) 10/28/09 12:00 AM
Source: Grinning Planet KPFA Flashpoints
Source: KPFAThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 4: Anatomy of a Financial Coup D'Etat: Wall Street, Banksters, Feds and Fascism.
Dennis Bernstein and Catherine Austin Fitts discuss the "Anatomy of a Financial Coup D'Etat", how a Washington-Wall Street partnership had:
* Engineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble;
* Illegally shifted vast amounts of capital out of the U.S.;
* Used “privitization” as a form of piracy - a pretext to move government assets to private investors at below-market prices and then shift private liabilities back to government at no cost to the private liability holder.
Dennis Bernstein is the producer and co-host of the radio news program, Flashpoints Radio on Pacifica Radio.
Catherine Austin Fitts is the president of Solari, Inc., the publisher of The Solari Report, managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC. Fitts served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration, and was the president of Hamilton Securities Group, Inc., an investment bank and financial software developer.
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Catherine Austin Fitts' website is http://www.solari.com/
Aired: (M/DD/YY) 10/26/09 12:00 AM
Source: Grinning Planet KPFA Flashpoints
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On October 24th, 2009, Richard Wolff shared his analysis and solutions at a public forum and film screening of "Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What Can be Done About It" in Hamden, CT, sponsored by Between The Lines Radio and Squeaky Wheel Productions.
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Richard Wolff's website is: http://www.rdwolff.com/
Source: Professor Richard D. Wolff
Aired: 10/24/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 3: Anatomy of a Financial Coup D'Etat: Wall Street, Banksters, Feds and Fascism.
Dennis Bernstein and Catherine Austin Fitts discuss the "Anatomy of a Financial Coup D'Etat", how a Washington-Wall Street partnership had:
* Engineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble;
* Illegally shifted vast amounts of capital out of the U.S.;
* Used “privitization” as a form of piracy - a pretext to move government assets to private investors at below-market prices and then shift private liabilities back to government at no cost to the private liability holder.
Dennis Bernstein is the producer and co-host of the radio news program, Flashpoints Radio on Pacifica Radio.
Catherine Austin Fitts is the president of Solari, Inc., the publisher of The Solari Report, managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC. Fitts served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration, and was the president of Hamilton Securities Group, Inc., an investment bank and financial software developer.
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Catherine Austin Fitts' website is http://www.solari.com/
Aired: (M/DD/YY) 10/21/09 12:00 AM
Source: Grinning Planet KPFA Flashpoints
Source: KPFAThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 2: Anatomy of a Financial Coup D'Etat: Wall Street, Banksters, Feds and Fascism.
Dennis Bernstein and Catherine Austin Fitts discuss the "Anatomy of a Financial Coup D'Etat", how a Washington-Wall Street partnership had:
* Engineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble;
* Illegally shifted vast amounts of capital out of the U.S.;
* Used “privitization” as a form of piracy - a pretext to move government assets to private investors at below-market prices and then shift private liabilities back to government at no cost to the private liability holder.
Dennis Bernstein is the producer and co-host of the radio news program, Flashpoints Radio on Pacifica Radio.
Catherine Austin Fitts is the president of Solari, Inc., the publisher of The Solari Report, managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC. Fitts served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration, and was the president of Hamilton Securities Group, Inc., an investment bank and financial software developer.
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Catherine Austin Fitts' website is http://www.solari.com/
Aired: (M/DD/YY) 10/20/09 12:00 AM
Source: Grinning Planet KPFA Flashpoints
Source: KPFAThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 1: Anatomy of a Financial Coup D'Etat: Wall Street, Banksters, Feds and Fascism.
Dennis Bernstein and Catherine Austin Fitts discuss the "Anatomy of a Financial Coup D'Etat", how a Washington-Wall Street partnership had:
* Engineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble;
* Illegally shifted vast amounts of capital out of the U.S.;
* Used “privitization” as a form of piracy - a pretext to move government assets to private investors at below-market prices and then shift private liabilities back to government at no cost to the private liability holder.
Dennis Bernstein is the producer and co-host of the radio news program, Flashpoints Radio on Pacifica Radio.
Catherine Austin Fitts is the president of Solari, Inc., the publisher of The Solari Report, managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC. Fitts served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration, and was the president of Hamilton Securities Group, Inc., an investment bank and financial software developer.
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Catherine Austin Fitts' website is http://www.solari.com/
Aired: (M/DD/YY) 10/19/09 12:00 AM
Source: Grinning Planet KPFA Flashpoints
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Professor Michael Hudson features as he takes us through the evolution of neo liberalism and into the tollbooth economy. Hudson gives us perspectives on the Oz economy and banking dominance.
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: 3CR Renegade Economists
Aired: 091014This podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Just over a year after economic calamity brought promises of reform to Washington, many now say that the recession is nearing an end. But is it business as usual for Wall Street, and have future financial crises been averted? Former International Monetary Fund chief economist Simon Johnson and US Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) join Bill Moyers for a report card on the bailouts, an update on the state of the U.S. economy, and to find out whether efforts of reform have been derailed. And, Bill Moyers remembers his friend, renowned physician and mountaineer Charlie Houston.
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Bill Moyers' website is http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/
Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Aired: 10/09/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
GUEST: Catherine Austin Fitts is an investment advisor, entrepreneur, former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner under GHW Bush, and former Managing Director and board member of the Wall Street firm, Dillon Read & Co., Inc.
She's now editor of Solari.com and runs Solari, Inc. as an "online media company focused on ethical investment and preserving family wealth.
Discussion will focus on www.Solari.com, Fitts' latest views on the economy, plus some background on the genesis of today's crisis.
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Catherine Austin Fitts' website is http://www.solari.com/
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 10/2/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
GUEST: Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on key financial topics. Her latest book is titled "Web of Debt," a vital analysis of the private banking cartel Federal Reserve, how it usurped money creation power, how we can get it back, and much more.
The global economic crisis and Brown's latest writing will be discussed.
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 9/18/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
In this episode we continue our investigation into monetary systems and the inner workings of privatized banking.
Our money system is not what we have been led to believe. The creation of money has been "privatized," or taken over by a private money cartel. Except for coins, all of our money is now created as loans advanced by private banking institutions — including the private Federal Reserve. Banks create the principal but not the interest to service their loans. To find the interest, new loans must continually be taken out, expanding the money supply, inflating prices — and robbing you of the value of your money.
Not only is virtually the entire money supply created privately by banks, but a mere handful of very big banks is responsible for a massive investment scheme known as "derivatives," which now tallies in at hundreds of trillions of dollars. The banking system has been contrived so that these big banks always get bailed out by the taxpayers from their risky ventures, but the scheme has reached its mathematical limits. There isn't enough money in the entire global economy to bail out the banks from a massive derivatives default today. When the investors realize that the "insurance" against catastrophe that they have purchased in the form of derivatives is worthless, they are liable to jump ship and bring the whole shaky edifice crashing down.
Web of Debt unravels the deceptions in our money scheme and presents a crystal clear picture of the financial abyss towards which we are heading. Then it explores a workable alternative, one that was tested in colonial America and is grounded in the best of American economic thought, including the writings of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. If you care about financial security, your own or the nation's, you should read this book.
Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Brown developed an interest in the developing world and its problems while living abroad for eleven years in Kenya, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. She returned to practicing law when she was asked to join the legal team of a popular Tijuana healer with an innovative cancer therapy, who was targeted by the chemotherapy industry in the 1990s. That experience produced her book Forbidden Medicine, which traces the suppression of natural health treatments to the same corrupting influences that have captured the money system. Brown's eleven books include the bestselling Nature's Pharmacy, co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker, which has sold 285,000 copies.
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
Source: Gnostic Media
Aired: 9/7/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 1: One of the factions that controls nearly every moment of our lives is hardly understood by the large majority of the population. To gain an understanding of today's topic deepens our understanding of the world and how it works and exactly what we can do to effect change when and where needed.
Our deepening investigation into the freedom of consciousness cannot go without a deeper understanding of what we all use for exchange or trade - money.
Exactly how we define the word 'money' defines our very society and affects nearly every facet of our lives. It also tells us exactly what we can expect from our political representatives. All we need is to understand the language of money.
Beginning today in this detailed two part series we begin to look into the fundamental concepts of money: What is money and how is it defined? What is the history of money? How does it tie to religion, government and private business? What is the difference between credit and money? What is FIAT money? Is there a difference between private versus nationalized banks and how they operate? And why is any of this important to YOU? And how could it possibly affect YOUR life?
Stephen Zarlenga is the founder of the American Monetary Institute (AMI) - the leading American monetary think tank for monetary history, theory and reform. An economic historian and author, Zarlenga provides us the clearest picture of how money and monetary systems work in his incredible 2002 tome The Lost Science of Money, and he's also the author of the American Monetary Act, submitted to congress by Dennis Kucinich in March of this year.
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Stephen Zarlenga's website is http://www.monetary.org/
Source: Gnostic Media
Aired: 08/30/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
"Dress Rehearsal For Debt Peonage" with economist Dr. Michael Hudson on why the banks are returning the bailout money; bank fees and penalties; banks prefer default to foreclosure; debt as wealth; Obama's Financial Regulatory Reform Proposal and its six major flaws; the deregulation-by centralization ploy; failure to reform the economy will lead to debt peonage.
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: KPFA Guns & Butter
Aired: 8/26/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
"Iceland Recovering From Neoliberal Disaster" with Dr. Michael Hudson on Iceland's banking crisis and foreign debt; it's decision to push back against IMF and World Bank austerity; Gordon Brown's role in the Icesave scandal; the capacity to pay principle; similarities with Germany's foreign debt reparations from the 1920s; European Union disarray; media omissions.
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: KPFA Guns & Butter
Aired: 8/19/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
GUEST :Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial topics. Her latest book is titled "Web of Debt," a vital analysis of the private banking cartel Federal Reserve, how it usurped money creation power, how we can get it back, and much more.
She also wrote 10 books on natural health, forbidden medicine, and her bestselling "Nature's Pharmacy," co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker.
On July 30, discussion will focus on Brown's latest financial writing. On July 31, conventional v. natural health practices will be covered, given the threat of dangerous, toxic Swine Flu vaccinations being globally mandated.
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 7/30/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
GUEST:Richard Wolff is Economics Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, now teaching in Manhattan at the New School University and Brecht Forum. He also writes, lectures, and makes documentaries on the global economic crisis with a new film just out.
For over 40 years, Wolff has been well known for his work on Marxian economics, economic methodology, and class analysis. His new film and views on the current economic crisis will be discussed.
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Richard Wolff's website is: http://www.rdwolff.com/
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 7/7/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
GUEST: Michael Hudson has had a long, varied, and distinguished career as a Wall Street insider, leading economist, expert on financial history, and Research Professor at the University of Missouri. He's also an author, consultant, head of a Harvard-based economic and financial history group, and president of the Institute for the Study of Long Term Economic Trends (INSLET).
In 1972, Hudson's important book "Super Imperialism" was published. It was updated in a 2003 edition that's every bit as relevant now. His book and mid-June article will be discussed, "De-Dollarization: Dismantling America's Financial-Military Empire."
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 7/1/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Tom Greco demystifies money and banking and explains the destructive power of the current financial system. He challenges us to recognize that our dreams of a sane, just and ecologically sound future can become reality only if we change the way in which money is created and used.
Tom Greco was recorded at the beginning of his lecture tour for his most recent book: THE END OF MONEY AND THE FUTURE OF CIVILIZATION. A former engineer and college professor, Greco has written on monetary and financial innovation for over 30 years. Earlier books include: New Money for Healthy Communities and Money and Debt, A Solution to the Global Crisis. His
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Tom Greco's website is http://www.reinventingmoney.com
Source: TUC Radio
Aired: 7/1/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
GUEST: Thomas Greco, Jr. is a community and monetary economist, educator, writer, and consultant. He's also a former tenured college teacher with over 30 years of experience studying and writing about ways to achieve greater harmony, equity, and sustainability through business and economics. His special expertise is monetary and financial structures.
Greco's new book on the subject will be discussed in connection with the global economic crisis - "The End of Money and the Future of Civilization."
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Tom Greco's website is http://www.reinventingmoney.com
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network Global Research News Hour (mp3)
Aired: 6/29/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 2: GUEST: Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial topics. Her latest book is titled "Web of Debt," a brilliant analysis of the private banking cartel Federal Reserve, how it usurped money creation power, how we can get it back, and much more.
Brown's latest writing and the global economic crisis will be discussed.
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 6/26/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 1: GUEST: Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial topics. Her latest book is titled "Web of Debt," a brilliant analysis of the private banking cartel Federal Reserve, how it usurped money creation power, how we can get it back, and much more.
Brown's latest writing and the global economic crisis will be discussed.
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 6/25/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 2: Congressman Dennis Kucinich has posted the following on his web site: “The U.S. monetary reform is urgently needed: It is long past time we look at the implications of . . . the privatization of money created by the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, the bank fractional reserve system and our debt-based economic system. Unless we have dramatic reform of monetary policy, the entire economic system will continue to accelerate wealth upwards. I am currently working on drafting legislation for an ‘American Monetary Act’ to address these and other issues in order to protect the economic well being of America.” Observers believe that this single measure has the potential of bringing together tens of millions of people who have realized that our bank-run debt-based monetary system lies at the center of the financial crisis. The question is of course - how are these tens of millions going to find out that there is such legislation being developed?
Kucinich is working closely with Stephen Zarlenga, director of the American Monetary Institute and author of: The Lost Science of Money. Zarlenga was interviewd in May 2009 after his return from Washington, DC, where he had briefed members of Congress. A report on the briefing was done by Richard Cook
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Stephen Zarlenga's website is http://www.monetary.org/
Source: TUC Radio
Aired: 6/17/09 12:10 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 1: Congressman Dennis Kucinich has posted the following on his web site: “The U.S. monetary reform is urgently needed: It is long past time we look at the implications of . . . the privatization of money created by the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, the bank fractional reserve system and our debt-based economic system. Unless we have dramatic reform of monetary policy, the entire economic system will continue to accelerate wealth upwards. I am currently working on drafting legislation for an ‘American Monetary Act’ to address these and other issues in order to protect the economic well being of America.” Observers believe that this single measure has the potential of bringing together tens of millions of people who have realized that our bank-run debt-based monetary system lies at the center of the financial crisis. The question is of course - how are these tens of millions going to find out that there is such legislation being developed?
Kucinich is working closely with Stephen Zarlenga, director of the American Monetary Institute and author of: The Lost Science of Money. Zarlenga was interviewd in May 2009 after his return from Washington, DC, where he had briefed members of Congress. A report on the briefing was done by Richard Cook
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Stephen Zarlenga's website is http://www.monetary.org/
Source: TUC Radio
Aired: 6/17/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
GUEST:Catherine Austin Fitts is an investment advisor, entrepreneur, former Assistant HUD Commissioner under GHW Bush, and former Managing Director and board member of the Wall Street firm, Dillon Read & Co., Inc.
She's now the editor of Solari.com and runs Solari, Inc - an "online company focused on ethical investment and preservation of family wealth."
She also hosts the 3-times a month Solari Report - a one-hour conference call by subscription that exposes how we're being "tricked" and what to do to protect ourselves. Fitts explains the game, how it affects our money, health and safety, and what actions to take.
The Solari Report will be discussed - its purpose, specific issues focused on, and how subscribers can direct questions to Fitts for answers.
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Catherine Austin Fitts' website is http://www.solari.com/
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 6/12/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
GUEST:Henry C.K. Liu developed an interest in economics and international relations when he participated in interdisciplinary work on urban and regional development as a Professor at UCLA, Harvard and Columbia. He's now chairman of a private New York-based investment group.
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Henry C. K. Liu's website is http://www.henryckliu.com/
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network Global Research News Hour
Aired: (M/DD/YY) 6/09/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
What force do bankers have on our society and government? Do the banks really control the world? Do global conspiracies really exist, or are these just traps of weak-minded, tin-hat wearing fools? If the conspiracies really do exist, then who benefits? Is the US Federal Reserve really a branch of the U.S. government? How is money created? What does the future hold for our economy and global politics?
Today I thought that I'd do a show that's entirely different than the usual format. This is very pertinent information to understanding what's going on right now in the U.S. (and the world) with Bush and Obama's bailouts, and how the entire thing is a scam to protect the bankers and milk the public through the hidden tax of inflation.
Today's guest is G. Edward Griffin, the author of The Creature from Jekyll Island.
This is a fantastic, detailed interview at 1 hour and 40 minutes, and I thank Edward for offering this show a longer and more detailed interview than he normally provides. So make sure you listen to the entire show.
G. Edward Griffin is a writer and documentary film producer with many successful titles to his credit. Listed in Who’s Who in America, he is well known because of his talent for researching difficult topics and presenting them in clear terms that all can understand. He has dealt with such diverse subjects as archaeology and ancient Earth history, the Federal Reserve System and international banking, terrorism, internal subversion, the history of taxation, U.S. foreign policy, the science and politics of cancer therapy, the Supreme Court, and the United Nations. His better-known works include The Creature from Jekyll Island, World without Cancer, The Discovery of Noah’s Ark, Moles in High Places, The Open Gates of Troy, No Place to Hide, The Capitalist Conspiracy, More Deadly than War, The Grand Design, The Great Prison Break, and The Fearful Master.
Mr. Griffin is a graduate of the University of Michigan where he majored in speech and communications. In preparation for writing his book on the Federal Reserve System, he enrolled in the College for Financial Planning located in Denver, Colorado. His goal was not to become a professional financial planner but to better understand the real world of investments and money markets. He obtained his CFP designation (Certified Financial Planner) in 1989.
Mr. Griffin is a recipient of the coveted Telly Award for excellence in television production, a Contributing Editor of The New American magazine, the creator of the Reality Zone Audio Archives, and is President of American Media, a publishing and video production company in Southern California. He has served on the board of directors of The National Health Federation and The International Association of Cancer Victors and Friends and is Founder and President of The Cancer Cure Foundation http://www.cancure.org. He is also the founder and president of Freedom Force International. www.freedom-force.org
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G. Edward Griffin's website is: http://www.freedomforceinternational.org/
Source: Gnostic Media
Aired: 5/31/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 2: GUEST: Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial issues. Her latest book is titled Web of Debt, a brilliant analysis of the private banking cartel Federal Reserve, how it usurped money creation power, and how we can take it back.
Her book and related topics will be discussed in a two-part program.
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 5/29/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 1: GUEST: Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial issues. Her latest book is titled Web of Debt, a brilliant analysis of the private banking cartel Federal Reserve, how it usurped money creation power, and how we can take it back.
Her book and related topics will be discussed in a two-part program.
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 5/28/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Interview with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. AAA rating of subprime junk; inflation; mishandling of crookedness; change in world order; privatization of banking system through the Federal Reserve; Alan Greenspan, Social Security and junk economics; windfall profits; the law of fraudulent conveyance.
Dr. Hudson has been appointed Chief Economic Policy Advisor for the Kucinich for President campaign, and is writing a new tax policy for the United States. He is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trend, a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and author of "Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire".
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: KPFA Guns & Butter
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Aired: 5/18/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Live interview with attorney Ellen Hodgsen Brown, author of The Web of Debt.
EXPLODING THE MYTHS ABOUT MONEY
Our money system is not what we have been led to believe. The creation of money has been “privatized,” or taken over by a private money cartel. Except for coins, all of our money is now created as loans advanced by private banking institutions — including the private Federal Reserve. Banks create the principal but not the interest to service their loans. To find the interest, new loans must continually be taken out, expanding the money supply, inflating prices — and robbing you of the value of your money.
Read Stephen Lendman’s excellent summary and review here
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
Source: noliesradio.org Fair & Balanced
Aired: 5/12/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
GUEST: Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial topics. Her latest book is titled "Web of Debt," a brilliant analysis of the private banking cartel Federal Reserve, how it usurped money creation power, and much more.
Her book is must reading and will be discussed on the program.
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 5/11/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
GUEST: Michael Hudson has had a long, varied, and distinguished career as a Wall Street insider, leading economist, expert on financial history, and Research Professor at the University of Missouri. He's also an author, consultant, head of a Harvard-based economic and financial history group, and president of the Institute for the Study of Long Term Economic Trends (INSLET).
In 1972, Hudson's important book "Super Imperialism" was published. It was updated in a 2003 edition that's every bit as relevant now. His book and mid-June article will be discussed, "De-Dollarization: Dismantling America's Financial-Military Empire."
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 5/8/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 2: David Korten is the author of the 2009 book: "Agenda for a New Economy" and chair of the board of YES Magazine. He is probably best known for his famous anti-globalization book: When Corporations Rule the World. He argues that pouring trillions of dollars in bail-out money into the Wall Street institutions that created the crisis does nothing to repair the failed economic system.
In this speech, given in March 2009 at the NW regional conference of Veterans for Peace, he analyzes two major flaws of the current economic system and points to ways to replace them. One is the monetary system, the other the concept of ever increasing growth, measured as GDP.
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David Korten's website is http://www.davidkorten.org
Source: TUC Radio
Aired: 4/29/09 12:10 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 1: David Korten is the author of the 2009 book: "Agenda for a New Economy" and chair of the board of YES Magazine. He is probably best known for his famous anti-globalization book: When Corporations Rule the World. He argues that pouring trillions of dollars in bail-out money into the Wall Street institutions that created the crisis does nothing to repair the failed economic system.
In this speech, given in March 2009 at the NW regional conference of Veterans for Peace, he analyzes two major flaws of the current economic system and points to ways to replace them. One is the monetary system, the other the concept of ever increasing growth, measured as GDP.
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David Korten's website is http://www.davidkorten.org
Source: TUC Radio
Aired: 4/29/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Tom Greco is a community and monetary economist, writer, networker, and consultant, who for three decades has been working at the leading edge of transformational restructuring. He is regarded as a leading expert in monetary theory and history, credit clearing systems, community economic development and complementary currencies.
He is currently Director of the Community Information Resource Center , a US non-profit networking hub, which provides information access and administrative support for efforts in community improvement, social justice and sustainability.
Tom Greco is in New Zealand as the keynote speaker for the Community Currencies Conference being held in Whanganui April 17 - 19.
His new book, The End of Money and the Future of Civilization, is to be released this month (Chelsea Books). His previous book, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender, is available from the Living Economies Educational Trust.
Out of all the conversations about relocalization and community resilience, the conversations about local currencies and alternative, people-centred economics may well be the most important of all and have the biggest bearing on how communities survive or not as the world financial system implodes.
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Tom Greco's website is http://www.reinventingmoney.com
Source: Radio4All
Aired: 4/18/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
GUEST: Michael Hudson has had a long, varied, and distinguished career as a Wall Street insider, leading economist, expert on financial history, and Research Professor at the University of Missouri. He's also an author, consultant, head of a Harvard-based economic and financial history group, and president of the Institute for the Study of Long Term Economic Trends (INSLET).
In 1972, Hudson's important book "Super Imperialism" was published. It was updated in a 2003 edition that's every bit as relevant now. His book and mid-June article will be discussed, "De-Dollarization: Dismantling America's Financial-Military Empire."
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 4/15/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Interview with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. We discuss the US balance of payments trade deficit which creates US credit to finance the US national debt and war abroad; Russian economic shock therapy as the final stage of the cold war; the real estate bubble; permanent war and the inevitable collapse of the current US dominated global economic system.
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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com
Source: KPFA Guns & Butter
Aired: 4/15/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
GUEST: Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial topics. Her latest book is titled "Web of Debt," a brilliant analysis of the private cartel Federal Reserve and how it usurped money creation power to control its supply and price, then charge the government interest on its own money.
She writes often on the global economic crisis. Discussion will focus on her latest article - an open letter to president Obama to "Revive Lincoln's Monetary Policy" (by) restoring the government's power" to control money.
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 4/13/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Author, advisor and speaker on money who is a guest speaker at the upcoming Community Currencies Conference 2009 in Wanganui. (duration: 32′40″)
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Tom Greco's website is http://www.reinventingmoney.com
Source: Radio New Zealand
Aired: 4/11/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
The financial industry brought the economy to its knees, but how did they get away with it? With the nation wondering how to hold the bankers accountable, Bill Moyers sits down with Bill Black, the former senior regulator who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. Black offers his analysis of what went wrong and his critique of the bailout. And, Bill Moyers talks with alternative media heavyweights Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman about what can and can't be addressed in big corporate media.
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Bill Moyers' website is http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/
Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Aired: 4/03/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 2: Ellen Hodgson Brown discusses, Web of Debt, her book about the US Federal Reserve, the so called ‘Money Trust’, and global banking. What are derivatives? What went wrong with the global banking industry and how quickly can it be fixed? Ellen Brown’s 2007 book, Web of Debt, outlined the state of global economic and banking systems, and explained that there simply wasn’t enough money to bail out the banks from a massive derivatives default. The book was a warning that when investors finally realized that the “insurance” they purchased in the form of derivatives was worthless, they would jump ship and bring the whole shaky edifice crashing down.
We also learn about the little known Bank for International Settlements, in Basil Switzerland, and the rules it has imposed on global markets such as the so-called, ‘mark to market rule.’ Finally we learn how North Dakota is an example for what all US states should do, start a state bank. North Dakota is solvent, well off in fact, while most US states are operating in the red. We could set up state banks in a matter of several months, and save enough on interest to bring all US states back into solvency. Ellen Hodgson Brown blogs about the global economic collapse at webofdebt.com. Her articles on global finance and how to repair America’s banking system can also be found at www.globalresearch.ca.
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
Source: talknationradio.com
Aired: 4/2/09 12:10 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 1: Ellen Hodgson Brown discusses, Web of Debt, her book about the US Federal Reserve, the so called ‘Money Trust’, and global banking. What are derivatives? What went wrong with the global banking industry and how quickly can it be fixed? Ellen Brown’s 2007 book, Web of Debt, outlined the state of global economic and banking systems, and explained that there simply wasn’t enough money to bail out the banks from a massive derivatives default. The book was a warning that when investors finally realized that the “insurance” they purchased in the form of derivatives was worthless, they would jump ship and bring the whole shaky edifice crashing down.
We also learn about the little known Bank for International Settlements, in Basil Switzerland, and the rules it has imposed on global markets such as the so-called, ‘mark to market rule.’ Finally we learn how North Dakota is an example for what all US states should do, start a state bank. North Dakota is solvent, well off in fact, while most US states are operating in the red. We could set up state banks in a matter of several months, and save enough on interest to bring all US states back into solvency. Ellen Hodgson Brown blogs about the global economic collapse at webofdebt.com. Her articles on global finance and how to repair America’s banking system can also be found at www.globalresearch.ca.
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
Source: talknationradio.com
Aired: 4/2/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Thinking Big Podcast 2: The Financial Crisis and the Fall of the Middle Class
Commonweal Institute Senior Fellow Patrick O'Heffernan interviews Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Director of the Drum Major Institute, about the current economic crisis and the pressure it is placing on America's middle class. From the new book from the Progressive Ideas Network, Thinking Big: Progressive Ideas for a New Era.
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Dean Baker's blog is: http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press
The Center for Economic and Policy Research website is: http://cepr.net/
The Drum Major Institute website is: http://drummajorinstitute.org/
Source: Commonweal Institute
Aired: 3/12/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
GUEST: Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial topics. Her latest book is titled "Web of Debt." In it, she analyzed the private cartel Federal Reserve and how it usurped money creation power to control its supply and price, then charge the government interest on its own money.
Brown writes often on the global economic crisis. Discussion will focus on that topic as well as the Obama administration's bailout and stimulus plans.
On July 30, discussion will focus on Brown's latest financial writing. On July 31, conventional v. natural health practices will be covered, given the threat of dangerous, toxic Swine Flu vaccinations being globally mandated.
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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com
Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 3/9/09 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
Part 2: An independent movie on the question "Where does money come from?" already has had a huge two year success with well over 2 million viewers on the internet. Now it is seeing another surge of interest because it also explains some of the underpinnings of the current financial crisis.
Money as Debt by the Canadian Paul Grignon makes the case that only a small part of our money is created by the government mint that prints or coins it. The vast majority of money is created by banks whenever a loan or mortgage is made. Banks, which are private institutions, are given enormous power to make and manage money and it is well worth today, in light of the crash of so many banks, to look at the monetary system.
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The web site of the film is: http://www.moneyasdebt.net
Source: TUC Radio
Aired: 3/4/09 12:20 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.