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(24 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 3, 2016
Brexit and the Derivatives Time Bomb Brexit could trigger a $500 trillion derivatives meltdown, by forcing the EU to allow insolvent member governments and banks to write down debt. Italy is in financial crisis and is already petitioning for that concession. How to avoid collapse of the massive derivatives house of cards? Alternatives are considered.

SHARE        Saturday, June 25, 2016
As the War on Weed Winds Down, Will Monsanto Be the Big Winner? The war on cannabis that began in the 1930s seems to be coming to an end. Research shows that this natural plant, rather than posing a deadly danger to health, has a wide range of therapeutic benefits. But skeptics question the sudden push for legalization, which is largely funded by wealthy investors linked to Big Ag and Big Pharma.

(21 comments) SHARE        Saturday, May 14, 2016
"Print the Money": Trump's "Reckless" Proposal Echoes Franklin and Lincoln "Print the money" has been called crazy talk, but it may be the only sane solution to a $19 trillion federal debt that has doubled in the last 10 years. The solution of Abraham Lincoln and the American colonists can still work today.

(6 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Bank of North Dakota Soars Despite Oil Bust: A Blueprint for California? Despite North Dakota's collapsing oil market, its state-owned bank continues to report record profits. This article looks at what California, with fifty times North Dakota's population, could do following that state's lead.

(12 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 11, 2016
The War on Savings: The Panama Papers, Bail-Ins, and the Push to Go Cashless Exposing tax dodgers is a worthy endeavor, but the "limited hangout" of the Panama Papers may have less noble ends, dovetailing with the War on Cash and the imminent threat of massive bail-ins of depositor funds.

(41 comments) SHARE        Sunday, March 13, 2016
Exposing the Libyan Agenda: A Closer Look at Hillary's Emails Critics have long questioned why violent intervention was necessary in Libya. Hillary Clinton's recently published emails confirm that it was less about protecting the people from a dictator than about money, banking, and preventing African economic sovereignty.

(24 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, January 27, 2016
The Populist Revolution: Bernie and Beyond Contenders with their fingers on the popular pulse are surging ahead of their establishment rivals. Sanders has picked up the baton where Occupy Wall Street left off, forcing his opponent Hillary Clinton to respond . . .

(31 comments) SHARE        Monday, January 18, 2016
The Citadel Is Breached: Congress Taps the Fed for Infrastructure Funding In a landmark infrastructure bill passed in December, Congress finally penetrated the Fed's "independence" by tapping its reserves and bank dividends for infrastructure funding. The bill was a start. But some experts, including Congressional candidate Tim Canova, say Congress should go further and authorize funds to be issued for infrastructure directly.

(28 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, December 30, 2015
A Crisis Worse than ISIS? Bail-Ins Begin While the mainstream media focus on ISIS extremists, a threat that has gone virtually unreported is that your life savings could be wiped out in a massive derivatives collapse. Bank bail-ins have begun in Europe, and the infrastructure is in place in the US.

(20 comments) SHARE        Saturday, December 12, 2015
Reinventing Banking: From Russia to Iceland to Ecuador Global developments in finance and geopolitics are prompting a rethinking of the structure of banking and of the nature of money itself. Among other interesting developments are those in Russia, Iceland, Ireland, the UK and Ecuador.

(61 comments) SHARE        Saturday, November 21, 2015
Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash, and the $10 Trillion Bail-in In uncertain times, "cash is king," but central bankers are systematically moving to eliminate that option. Is it really about stimulating the economy? Or is there some deeper, darker threat afoot?

(12 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 28, 2015
How Obama Could Beat the Debt Ceiling and Go Out a Hero One good gimmick deserves another. The debt ceiling could be eliminated for good, by restoring to the government its constitutional authority to create money. Article 1, Section 8, provides: "The Congress shall have the power to coin money [and] regulate the value thereof . . . ." The president could pay the government's bills by issuing some large denomination coins by executive order.

(7 comments) SHARE        Thursday, October 22, 2015
Killing Off Community Banks -- Intended Consequence of Dodd-Frank? The Dodd-Frank regulations are so lethal to community banks that some say the intent was to force them to sell out to the megabanks. Community banks are rapidly disappearing -- except in North Dakota, where they are thriving.

(23 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Time for the Nuclear Option: Raining Money on Main Street Predictions are that we will soon be seeing the "nuclear option" -- central bank-created money injected directly into the real economy. All other options having failed, governments will be reduced to issuing money outright to cover budget deficits.

(44 comments) SHARE        Thursday, September 3, 2015
Quantitative Easing for People: The UK Labour Frontrunner's Controversial Proposal Jeremy Corbyn, who is currently leading in the polls for UK Labour Party leadership, has included in his platform "quantitative easing for people." The proposal has critics crying hyperinflation and supporters saying it's about time.

(13 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Trumping the Federal Debt Without Playing the Default Card The government can reduce the debt by buying it -- and ripping it up. The debt can be bought either with debt-free U.S. Notes of the sort issued during the Civil War, or with U.S. dollars issued by the Federal Reserve--a kind of "quantitative easing" for the people.

(15 comments) SHARE        Friday, July 31, 2015
The Greek Coup: Liquidity as a Weapon of Coercion In the modern global banking system, all banks need a credit line with the central bank in order to be part of the payments system. Choking off that credit line was a form of blackmail the Greek government couldn't refuse.

(50 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Grexit or Jubilee? How Greek Debt Can Be Annulled The crushing Greek debt could be canceled the way it was made -- by sleight of hand. But saving the Greek people and their economy is evidently not in the game plan of the Eurocrats.

(11 comments) SHARE        Thursday, July 9, 2015
"Guerrilla Warfare Against a Hegemonic Power": The Challenge and Promise of Greece Banks create money when they make loans. Greece could restore the liquidity desperately needed by its banks and its economy by nationalizing the banks and issuing digital loans backed by government guarantees to its ailing businesses. Greece could provide an inspiring model of sustainable prosperity for the world. But it is being strangled by a hegemonic power in a financial war that is being waged against us all.

(18 comments) SHARE        Saturday, July 4, 2015
A Revolutionary Pope Calls for Rethinking the Outdated Criteria That Rule the World Pope Francis' revolutionary encyclical addresses not just climate change but the banking crisis. Interestingly, the solution to that crisis may have been modeled in the Middle Ages by Franciscan monks following the Saint from whom the Pope took his name.

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