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HOW THE WORLD’S POOR CAN IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE
AND MEET THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS.
PRACTICAL MONETARY
REFORM.
(Stichting Bakens Verzet has
endorsed the Earth Charter.)
MONETARY REFORM: HOW OUR FINANCIAL SYSTEM ACTUALLY WORKS AND HOW TO
CORRECT IT.
The world's debt problem is that too many people have
been getting something for nothing for too long. Unearned income in the
form of interest paid on bank
deposits doesn’t produce anything. The additional debt needed to support
that unearned income must be serviced by the productive economy but can
never be repaid. Both the unearned income and the debt needed to support
it increase exponentially.
Some nations have also been living beyond their means in their dealings
with others, creating current account deficits that accumulate over time.
Those deficits add more to the debt the debtor nations must service and to
the amount of unearned income the productive economy must pay local and
foreign deposit holders. They also lead to foreign ownership of debtor
economies and greater exchange rate instability.
In some countries the total debt is now so large that the unearned income
being paid for doing nothing exceeds the growth of the productive economy.
Income earners cannot pay all the unearned income that deposit holders
expect without reducing their own disposable incomes. Total economic
output then shrinks, causing worldwide economic collapse.
The solutions are to remove deposit interest from the financial system and
to repay the banks' foreign debt.
To remove deposit interest from the money supply, publicly issued interest-free
money will need to replace private interest-bearing bank debt, and the
amount of money in circulation will need to be carefully managed. Normal
banking operations and bank profits will not be affected by the change
because inflation will be kept close to zero and the financial system will
become almost risk-free.
Foreign debt can be repaid by introducing a tax-neutral Foreign Exchange
Surcharge to raise the cost of foreign transactions in debtor countries so
their current accounts become positive.
Removing deposit interest on bank deposits means that local interest rates will
fall to low levels. Local borrowers will not be paying enough interest on
their loans to enable the banks to service their foreign debt. To fix
the shortfall during the transition period, the agency in charge of
the public money supply will manage and fund the banks' foreign interest costs
until their foreign debt has been repaid.
A. ORIGINAL PAPERS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER.
NEW : Beyond Piketty : The Anatomy
of Inequality.
Beyond Piketty : The Anatomy of
Inequality.
Debt bubbles cannot be popped : Business cycles are policy inventions.
DNA of the debt-based economy.
General summary of all papers published.(Revised edition).
How to create stable financial systems in four
complementary steps. (Revised edition).
How to introduce an e-money financed virtual minimum wage
system in New Zealand. (Revised edition) .
How
to introduce a guaranteed minimum income in New Zealand. (Revised edition).
Interest-bearing debt system and its economic impacts.
(Revised edition).
Manifesto of 95 principles of the debt-based economy.
The Manning plan for permanent debt reduction in the national economy.
Measuring nothing on the road
to nowhere.
Missing links between growth, saving, deposits and
GDP.
Savings Myth. (Revised edition).
Unified text of the manifesto of the debt-based
economy.
Using a foreign transactions surcharge (FTS) to manage the
exchange rate.
(The
following items have not been revised. They show the historic development of
the work. )
Financial system mechanics explained for the first time. “The Ripple
Starts Here.”
Short summary of the paper The Ripple Starts Here.
Financial system mechanics: Power-point presentation.
B. REVIEWS.
Analysis of Jackson, A., Dyson, B., Hodgson, G. The Positive Money
Proposal – Plan for Monetary Reform, Positive Money,
Analysis of the New Zealand Initiative (NZI) paper by B.
Wilkinson : New Zealand’s Global Links : Foreign Ownership and the Status of
New Zealand’s Net International Investment. (Posted 11 May, 2013.)
Chicago Plan Revisited Version II: An insufficient
response to financial system failure. (Posted 11 May, 2013.)
Comments on the original IMF (Benes and Kumhof) paper
“The Chicago Plan Revisited”. (Posted 20 August, 2012.)
C. ARTICLES.
The end of capitalism : Systemic collapse. (24
August, 2013).
Increases in export income from price rises abroad are not
growth. (26 August, 2013).
There’s no such thing as affordable housing. (15 June, 2013).
What about a tax cut for the poor? (16 May,
2013).
D. OTHER.
Carroll,
W.K.; Sapinksi, J.P., The Global Corporate Elite and
the Transnational Policy-Planning Network, 1996-2006 : A Structural Analysis,
International
Sociology, Vol. 25 no. 4 pp. 501-538, Sage Publications,
Vitali
S. et al, The network of global
corporate control. Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH), Zurich, October, 2011.
The Transnational Insitute (TNI),
For the domination of the financial lobby in
European decision making see Wolff, M. and others, The
Fire Power of the Financial Lobby : A Survey of the Size of the Financial Lobby
at EU Level, Corporate European Observatory
(CEO) with the Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour and the Austrian Trade Union Federation
IÖGB), Brussels, April 2014. Understating reality by using
minimal salaries and excluding event organisation, travel costs and taxation, some 1700 financial lobbyists
working for 700 organisations (450 of which are unregistered) spend € 123 million
a year on lobbying EU institutions, 30 times more than NGOs, Trade Unions and
Consumer Associations together. They account for more than 70% of lobby
meetings with EU institutions and have dominated with up to a 94% participation
15 out of the 17 “Expert Groups” on financial topics, the exceptions being the
two “users” groups.
Super-secret negotiations are under way which would
still further expand the almost unlimited dominating power of the finance
industry. See Wikileaks Secret Trade in Services Agreement, under
negotiation, Annex 10. For
preliminary comments on it see Kelsey J, Memorandum on the Leaked
[Secret] TISA [Trade in Services] Financial Services Text which is also published by Wikileaks.
By every measure, the big
banks are [37%] bigger [than in 2008], S.Gandel, fortune.com,
Time Inc, 13 September, 2013.
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Money is not the key that opens the gates of the
market but the bolt that bars them."
Gesell, Silvio, The Natural Economic Order, revised
English edition, Peter Owen,
“You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of
gold.”
William Jennings Bryan, Official Minutes of the National Democratic Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 7-11, 1896, (Logansport, Indiana, 1896), 226–234.
“The
god they serve, the financial system, is a dying god.”
C.
Eisenstein, Occupy Wall Street: No Demand is Big Enough,
Reality Sandwich, 6th October, 2011.
“Poverty is created scarcity”
Wahu Kaara, point 8 of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, 58th
annual NGO Conference, United Nations, New York 7 September 2005.
“Where is the thicket ? Gone.
Where is the eagle? Gone. The end of living and the beginning of survival.”
Speech (as reported 30 years later) attributed to Si’ahl, ‘Chef Seattle’,
Seattle, 1854.
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