THE TOWER OF BASEL: DO WE REALLY WANT THE BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS ISSUING OUR GLOBAL CURRENCY?

Earlier this month, the G20 leaders agreed to inject $250 billion in SDRs or Special Drawing Rights into the world economy. In an April 7 article titled “The G20 Moves the World a Step Closer to a Global Currency,” Ambrose Evans-Pritchard wrote that “In doing so, they are putting a de facto world currency into [...]

REVIVE LINCOLN’S MONETARY POLICY: AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

REVIVE LINCOLN’S MONETARY POLICY: AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
Ellen Brown, April 8th, 2009
http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/lincoln_obama.php
Dear President Obama:
The world was transfixed on that remarkable day in January when, to poetry, song, and dance, you gazed upon Abraham Lincoln’s likeness at the Lincoln Memorial and searched for wisdom to navigate these difficult times. Indeed, [...]

THINKING POSITIVELY ABOUT MONETARY POLICY: HOW ‘QUANTITATIVE EASING’ COULD BE HARNESSED FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD

Nervous pundits are predicting the end of American life as we know it, after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke announced on March 18 that he would be dropping yet another trillion dollars in helicopter money – up to $300 billion to buy long-term government bonds and an additional $750 billion to buy private debt, with the [...]