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Richard C. Cook is a former U.S. federal government analyst, whose career included service with the U.S. Civil Service Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury Department. His articles on economics, politics, and space policy have appeared in numerous websites and print magazines. His book on monetary reform, entitled We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform, will soon be published. He is the author of Challenger Revealed: An Insider's Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age, called by one reviewer, "the most important spaceflight book of the last twenty years."
Monday, March 30, 2009 "Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis": A Video in Six Parts (1 comments)
This six-part video explains that the cause of the economic crisis is the bank-centered debt-based monetary system. The concept of credit as a public utility is described as the solution to the disaster and the pathway to economic democracy.
Sunday, March 29, 2009 "Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis": A Video in Six Parts (1 comments)
This six-part video explains that the cause of the economic crisis is the bank-centered debt-based monetary system. The concept of credit as a public utility is described as the solution to the disaster and the pathway to economic democracy.
Thursday, October 23, 2008 They Did It on Purpose: The Housing Bubble and Its Crash (4 comments)
The housing bubble and its crash were engineered from the highest levels of the U.S. government, the Federal Reserve, and the Financial Industry.
Sunday, October 12, 2008 How to Save the U.S. Economy (1 comments)
The "Cook Plan" for saving the U.S. economy is based on dividend-economics to build a grassroots economic and financial system to parallel the Federal Reserve System.
Monday, September 15, 2008 "Change" Part I: Has the West Reached Its Limits? (2 comments)
Has the civilization of the West reached its limits through the financial crisis, onrushing depression, and collapse of the Bush war policy?
Friday, September 12, 2008 The Real Reasons for the Fannie Mae/Freddi Mac Takeover (2 comments)
This article explains the underlying reasons the federal government is taking over the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 Democrats Should Skip a Party and Read the American Monetary Act (1 comments)
Democrats in Denver should skip one of their parties to read the American Monetary Act. With continued compound growth of debt and a slow- or no-growth state of the economy as we head into a recession, we are starting to see what Dr. Robert Blain called an "acceleration to meltdown."