“Great News !! Zero Income Taxes Solves Worldwide Economic Crises” “Keep It Simple” AMEND THE FED, NOT END THE FED !!

 

“Great News !! Zero Income Taxes Solves Worldwide Economic Crises” 

 

Summary
To lower taxes,you must raise revenue somewhere.How does a government fund, “a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,…””  at the same time  reduce personal income taxes to zero ?
***** “Believe nothing merely because you have been told it…But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis,you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit,the welfare of all beings – that doctrine believe and cling to,and take it as your guide.”- Buddha[Gautama Siddharta] (563 – 483 BC), Hindu Prince, founder of Buddhism.
Great News!!Zero Income Taxes Solves Worldwide Economic Crises !
The answer lies in not how the most powerful force in the universe is used ,rather how you redistribute what it creates !
albert einstein“The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest”Albert Einstein
Great News!!Zero Income Taxes (2013) Solves Worldwide Economic Crises !

For the solution:”We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”.Albert Einstein

Perhaps the answer lies in how you redistribute the wealth of a nation; not in how you acquire it.

 

 Have you  read the Federal Reserve Act? The authorizing legislation projected a body:
 
“…to provide for the establishment of the Federal Reserve banks…
Where we went wrong- Established Federal Reserve Banks owned by private banks, domestic and foreign.
How we can fix it-Establish Federal Reserve Banks owned “by the people,of the people,for the people
 
… to furnish an elastic currency… 
Where we went wrong-The elastic currency’s quality and quantity can be controlled by private banks using  a legalize counterfeit system called Fractional -Reserve Banking.
How we can fix it- End Fractional Reserve Banking making the correctly established Federal Reserve Bank the ONLY supplier of new currency.
 
… to afford means of rediscounting commercial paper and to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the United States..
Where we went wrong-Allowing private banks to charge compound interest on the paper they create “out of thin air”.
How we can fix it-Private banks will only be allowed to invest, or purchase assets with 100% margin.They will be responsible for all
losses and entitled to all gains.
 
… and for other purposes.”
Where we went wrong-By now can we identify the operative phrase? Of course: “for other purposes.”
 
How to fix it-For the purposes of FUNDING,  ”“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,…””
 
 
 
WHERE WE WENT WRONG:
ONE:Possible $1 quadrillion in “potential currency” was created by the financial institutions leading up to the crisis of 2007-8.
“Hernando de Soto says this credit crisis is all about (a lack of) paper” As stated by Justin Fox (March 25 2009)
If you think about it, everything of value we own travels on property paper. At the beginning of the decade there was about $100 trillion worth of property paper representing tangible goods such as land, buildings, and patents world-wide, and some $170 trillion representing ownership over such semi liquid assets as mortgages, stocks and bonds. Since then, however, aggressive financiers have manufactured what the Bank for International Settlements estimates to be $1 quadrillion worth of new derivatives (mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations, and credit default swaps) that have flooded the market.
These derivatives are the root of the credit crunch. Why? Unlike all other property paper, derivatives are not required by law to be recorded… Nobody knows precisely how many there are, where they are, and who is finally accountable for them. Thus, there is widespread fear that potential borrowers and recipients of capital with too many non performing derivatives will be unable to repay their loans. As trust in property paper breaks down it sets off a chain reaction, paralyzing credit and investment, which shrinks transactions and leads to a catastrophic drop in employment and in the value of everyone’s property.Read more: http://business.time.com/2009/03/25/hernando-de-soto-says-this-credit-crisis-is-all-about-a-lack-of-paper/#ixzz1lCKEaF3w
WHERE WE WENT WRONG.
TWO:Private debt bubble.
The Debtwatch Manifesto by Steve Keen (Jan 3rd, 2012)
“The fundamental cause of the economic and financial crisis that began in late 2007 was lending by the finance sector that primarily financed speculation rather than investment. The private debt bubble this caused is unprecedented, probably in human history and certainly in the last century …. Its unwinding now is the primary cause of the sustained slump in economic growth. The recent growth in sovereign debt is a symptom of this underlying crisis, not the cause, and the current political obsession with reducing sovereign debt will exacerbate the root problem of private sector de leveraging.”
WHERE WE WENT WRONG:
THREE:Financial institutions allowed to create “currency”.
How the Banks Broke the Social Compact, Promoting their Own Special Interests
“The inherently symbiotic relationship between banks and governments recently has been reversed. In medieval times, wealthy bankers lent to kings and princes as their major customers. But now it is the banks that are needy, relying on governments for funding – capped by the post-2008 bailouts to save them from going bankrupt from their bad private-sector loans and gambles.
Yet the banks now browbeat governments – not by having ready cash but by threatening to go bust and drag the economy down with them if they are not given control of public tax policy, spending and planning. The process has gone furthest in the United States. Joseph Stiglitz characterizes the Obama administration’s vast transfer of money and pubic debt to the banks as a “privatizing of gains and the socializing of losses. It is a ‘partnership’ in which one partner robs the other.” Prof. Bill Black describes banks as becoming criminogenic and innovating “control fraud.” High finance has corrupted regulatory agencies, falsified account-keeping by “mark to model” trickery, and financed the campaigns of its supporters to disable public oversight. The effect is to leave banks in control of how the economy’s allocates its credit and resources.
If there is any silver lining to today’s debt crisis, it is that the present situation and trends cannot continue. So this is not only an opportunity to restructure banking; we have little choice. The urgent issue is who will control the economy: governments, or the financial sector and monopolies with which it has made an alliance.
Fortunately, it is not necessary to re-invent the wheel. Already a century ago the outlines of a productive industrial banking system were well understood. But recent bank lobbying has been remarkably successful in distracting attention away from classical analyses of how to shape the financial and tax system to best promote economic growth – by public checks on bank privileges.

Governments can create new credit electronically on their own computer keyboards as easily as commercial banks can. And unlike banks, their spending is expected to serve a broad social purpose, to be determined democratically. When commercial banks gain policy control over governments and central banks, they tend to support their own remunerative policy of creating asset-inflationary credit – leaving the clean-up costs to be solved by a post-bubble austerity. This makes the debt overhead even harder to pay – indeed, impossible.

It is too early to forecast whether banks or governments will emerge victorious from today’s crisis. As economies polarize between debtors and creditors, planning is shifting out of public hands into those of bankers. The easiest way for them to keep this power is to block a true central bank or strong public sector from interfering with their monopoly of credit creation. The counter is for central banks and governments to act as they were intended to, by providing a public option for credit creation.Read more..by Prof. Michael Hudson ; http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28938
 
WHERE WE WENT WRONG:
FOUR:The most powerful force in the universe is being used against mankind,rather than for the benefit of mankind.
“…. The Mathematics of Compound Interest (Michael Hudson)
A syndicate of less than one hundred American capitalists, if allowed to collect interest on their capital at a low rate and re-invest for 150 years or less, would at the end of that time own the earth and all real and personal property thereon. This is a simple mathematical proposition, capable of exact demonstration, and any one who doubts the truth of this statement may set all doubts at rest by computing compound interest on one and one-half billions of dollars for one hundred and fifty years, at five per cent per annum.
…Flürscheim elaborated that “All exertions, all improvements in the methods and tools of labor, the strictest economy, the severest self-denial, are powerless to compete with the rapidity of self-increase possessed by capital placed at compound interest, and they cannot keep up with its demands.” To illustrate the dynamic at work, he composed an allegory (pp. 327ff.). Many ages after man was driven from Paradise and told “to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, mercy began to prevail. A loving angel was sent down by the Great Master, charged with the task of lightening the burden. The angel’s name was Spirit of Invention. He began his work by teaching man to make useful tools” and tame animals, and in time to mobilize water power, air and wind power, fire and steam power to drive machinery.
“It seemed that at last the golden era had come of which men had dreamed for ages past,” but “that envious spirit, that fallen angel, Satan,” was jealous that his own empire would soon be over for ever. Among the follies of man, one little imp, called Interest, managed to attract his attention. “‘What is the matter with you, Interest?’ he asked the saucy imp. ‘You don’t seem to be so dejected as your comrades are?’”
“‘Why should I be dejected, master?’ replied the spirit, ‘Am I not one of your favorite soldiers? Haven’t I always been victorious under your august guidance?’”
But Satan answered sadly, “Alas, You are no match for the Spirit of Invention.” The Interest imp, however, volunteered to demonstrate his prowess in a dual, helped by his son, Compound Interest.
At this point, Flürscheim introduced an image that Napier had suggested at the outset of his second book on logarithms in 1617, the Robdologia, likening the principle of geometric increase to that of a chess-board on which each square doubled the number assigned to the preceding one. An old Persian proverb told of a Shah who wished to reward the inventor of chess, a subject, and asked what he would like. To the Shah’s surprise, the man asked “as his only reward that the Shah would give him a single grain of corn, which was to be put on the first square of the chess-board, and to be doubled on each successive square; which, to the surprise of the king, produced an amount larger than the treasures of his whole kingdom could buy. It is this kind of chess-game which capital is continually playing with labor.” The remarkable growth of compound interest soon swallowed “products, capital, the earth and even the workers.”
This was in essence the ploy that Flürscheim’s Compound Interest demon used. “Look at this chess-board,” he told the angel against whom Satan had pitted him. “It seems just like any other chess-board, with sixty-four squares,” but it “had the peculiar quality of extending the dimensions of the squares, so as always to be large enough” to hold whatever was placed on them. Instead of asking for grains of wheat to be placed on them, the Interest Imp asked for soldiers. “Now, listen well to what I propose,” he said to the angel, pointing to the latter’s huge army.
I enter the first square with my son, and you match one of your warriors against us. We enter the second square doubled in number; you send two more warriors – and so on every succeeding square. . . . When we arrive at the last square, and you have a single soldier left after occupying the same, we shall declare ourselves vanquished, and Satan with all his troops will leave this world for ever. If I win, you and your army are to be at the commands of my master. Are you agreed?
The angel agreed, expecting his horde of soldiers to easily exceed the number that the Interest Imp and his son, Compound Interest, seemed likely to accrue.
In the beginning the angel laughed, for, though twenty squares were passed, no noticeable diminution of his forces was perceptible. Demon Interest said nothing, but attended to business, quietly doubling his army on every succeeding square. At the thirtieth square the angel ceased to laugh, and soon saw he was lost.
‘I despised you, little fellow,’ he signed despairingly, ‘and I am punished for my vanity. I see there is no use fighting against you. Demon Interest is more powerful than the Spirit of Invention. I am your slave. Command your servant!’”
(THIS IS THE TIPPING POINT ! (Where we went wrong)
‘I am the only servant of my great master,’ dryly replied the demon.
“Here I see him coming. He will give you his orders.’
And Satan gave his orders. He commanded that the angel was to continue in his work with all his troops, which were to be increased with all possible exertion, so that humanity – which did not know the nature of the antagonist it had to fight against – would always keep in fresh hope of final success when the new troops were forthcoming. But as fast as they appeared, Demon Interest was to send forth a larger army to capture the new forces, to enslave them, and – instead of their benefiting man – make them increase the slave-chains which weigh him down.
WHAT IF DEMON INTEREST WERE TO ANSWER? (How we can fix it).
I will now be the servant of a new master,one that will pursue happiness for all mankind.”
 
“HOW THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE” COULD BE USED TO PUT MANKIND INTO SERVITUDE OR UTOPIA !
Where we went wrong:
Fractional Reserve Banking,allowing private institutions to “print” our money ,which then allows them to charge compound interest on that potential money.
THEREBY MAKING PRIVATE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS MORE POWERFUL THAN THE SOVEREIGN NATION.
If it were possible to sum up the single greatest flaw to capitalism ,it would be :It allows for the “most powerful force in the universe”… to quote Einstein,” compounding  interest ,” to be used against that society.The lender becomes the owner of all the money based upon the act of compounding at any rate within a long period of time.
A cycle that commands total money control or it must bust. When will we learn and believe that a private bank is allowed to print new money ,Ten,twenty,even fifty times what it has in deposit.If a bank has $1 million to loan it is allowed to lend $900,000 at 10% using the process “Fractional Reserve Banking” The lender makes with that creation a bank asset (loan) of $900,000 which allows another loan of $810,000,on and on,even to 30X and 40X leverage.
THE SOLUTION:
ONE. AMEND THE FEDERAL RESERVE CHARTER; TURN THE FED RESERVE INTO THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF AMERICA (FRBA),RESTORE MONETARY POWER BACK TO THE PEOPLE ,OPERATE THE FRBA WITH ABSOLUTE TRANSPARENCY, (“GLINDA,the Good Witch, owns a Great Book of Records that allows her to track everything that goes on in the world from the instant it happens.”_The Road to Oz)
ESTABLISH THE FRBA AS THE ONLY MEANS FOR MONETARY SUPPLY,ALL OTHER INSTITUTIONS MUST MAINTAIN 100% MARGIN ON ALL INVESTMENTS.
TWO:ESTABLISH A ZERO FEDERAL PERSONAL INCOME TAX.
INTEREST INCOME (REVENUE) WILL REPLACE PERSONAL INCOME TAXES.
The Federal RESERVE Bank of America,make it the melting pot for Federal Reserve.,FDIC,FHFA,and the GSE’s,Fannie,Freddie,Ginnie and Sally, as well as the IRS.These organizations will be needed to service the federal loans.
 
All loans by any financial institution must be backed with 100% reserves.No more Fractional Reserve Banking.No more production by private banks of this Monetary Sovereignty’s currency.All loans may be used as assets for borrowing from The FRBA so that they comply with the 100% reserve. Any loan that is not in compliance must be sold to the FRBA or the financial institution would be placed into receivership.
 Private banks will have to be self-insured. Risk 100% their own investors money for 100% reward.
It will be operated by the people,of the people and for the people”.THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF AMERICA will be the source for the American borrower to acquire funds and the interest paid shall be revenue income to be used as funding of their government agenda,for the general welfare,It will be operated by the people,of the people and for the people”.
THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF AMERICA will be the maker of all loans,not guarantee them for others, they will be the maker of these loans and will retain all profits. Profits which by law will be turned over to the US Treasury,as funds for Congress for government expensive’s.
The Federal Reserve Bank of America:
-Will no longer allow the paying of interest for the use of its own money,rather it will charge interest for the use of its money..
Will take away from others the right to “print” our own currency.
Will stop the stupid practice of paying interest on our own money.
Will wake up and realize that “There is only one fair Income Tax,period; only zero is fair.
-Will not take deposits from anyone other than for the US Treasury.
-Will not be involved in any financial investment services.
The Federal Reserve Bank of America will be the sole lender of legal tender. Any financial institution that wishes to loan American Dollars ,those dollars must be acquired (read borrowed) from the Federal Reserve Bank of America,as all loans must be backed with a 100% reserve from either dollars on hand or borrowed from the FRBA.
FRBA will purchase ALL residential and commercial REAL ESTATE loans outstanding at full balance owed.Any private lender may retain any loan it has by simply showing 100% reserve.
The American people will be the lenders and no longer will they be the victims of private greed of those printing our own money..No longer will they allow the banks that they have entrusted with their money to use that money to make profits for themselves .Profits will be made by the people,of the people, for the people. Taxpayers bailout for Taxpayers by Taxpayers paying compounded interest to Taxpayers . These loans would provide trillions of dollars as TAXPAYER PROFIT (REVENUE)!
Compound interest will cause any amount to double over a certain period of time.This doubling alone will provide an enormous income stream. If loans are made for $100 trillion,the incoming payments would exceed $5 trillion a year for 36 years @2%. What a magnificent way to fund a government.
Since the FRBA will be taking back all currency issued,it would be absolutely necessary to redistribute most if not all over a period of time.(If not ,then the debt would be UN PAYABLE).
As Einstein said,”Make it simple.”
“TERMINATE THE STUPID PRACTICE OF PAYING INTEREST ON OUR OWN MONEY TO PRIVATE BANKS .A PRACTICE THAT CAN ONLY END WITH A FINANCIAL BUST” Ellen Brown (web of Debt), OR SERVITUDE !
The next wave of stuff that will hit the fan may be the “CRISIS in the derivatives market” if you think stuff was “too big to fail” before,join me in sleepless nights knowing the derivatives market is more than $800 trillion ! ! That’s $800,000,000,000,000 !
If $1 quadrillion is needed,better yet,that would produce(2% for 36 years) an income for “We the People” of over $55 trillion a year .WITH NO INFLATION (it would be an asset purchase, not disposable income) and $55 trillion a year would be vacuumed out of the economy each year ($55 trillion) with only needing to use a portion for funding for the general welfare and the remainder for quality and quantity control of the currency. as well as making new loans.No inflation,no new bubbles (with 100% margin, a greater fool would not be able to continue the escalation needed to fuel the bubble,plus who would be willing to take the risk using “just their own money”..
MUST IMPORTANT it will allow the financial institutions to de leverage their now 100% margin assets over 36 years,thereby preventing a ” burst”.
It will prevent a “crack- up-boom” because the “created potential money” will not be available for circulation,it will be needed to payback the loans, since they would be otherwise un payable.
The final collapse,as stated by Ludwig von Mises,
“There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of the voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.” – Ludwig von Mises
Great News;Zero Income Taxes Solves Worldwide Economic Crises !
 
THE MEANS OF AVOIDING THE FINAL COLLAPSE !
Back the credit with 100% of borrowed dollars,allowing the financial institutions to de-leverage at a cost of 2% for 36 years.Prevent collaspe and at the same time serve a new master-”We The People”
Make the potential currency real with an attached means for recovery over a period of time.Make the bubble whole, so that it can be disintergrated slowly over time.
THE PEOPLE’ S CHOICE:
Total catastrophe
or
ZERO Income Taxes.
When will we show our leaders,
(as stated on ” 60 minutes” (12/11/11)”
President Obama said,”You can’t raise revenues by lowering taxes unless you get the money from somewhere else.” ?
YES, JUST COLLECT INTEREST ON OUR OWN MONEY, INSTEAD OF TAXES !
The Federal Reserve Bank of AMERICA will be agency for the Federal Reserve Charter and will be mandated to preserve the quantity and quality of the US Dollar and to provide Congress with funding for the general welfare,life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness
Just like that ,we the people may just have solved our;
financial crisis (read loan the financial institutions the money to unwind their derivatives to 100% asset based with a rate of 2% for 36 years.) ,
housing crisis (read modify all loans that are purchased from the lenders AT FULL REAL BALANCE modify with a rate of 2% for 36 years.Very low and affordable payments (@ $460/month/$100,000) on an assumable mortgage. READ,how this will make a gigantic increase in revenue for the taxpayers, and replace  income taxes.
How can we prove that the purchase of $51 trillion of REAL ESTATE LOANS with a FAIR VALUE of maybe just $30 trillion give the taxpayers a revenue income GREATER than the $51 trillion.
THE ANSWER AS EINSTEIN SAYS, “KEEP IT SIMPLE”,
is in the “magic” of that “most powerful force in the universe”.
It allows for the borrower to be willing to pay off the higher amount in order to gain the asset and eventually actually increase the value of the asset.
E.G., A loan with todays terms and conditions on a home that has a balance of $200,000 on an asset that is valued at $100,000 with a payment of $1,200 per month (6%rate). Why pay it ? If the loan is for 30 years you would have to pay in $560,000. Plus no one would want to get you out of that nightmare mortgage.
But if you take that same loan, $200,000 on that same value $100,000 with a payment of $920 per month (2% rate/36 years)with an assumable mortgage you create an instant “$200,000 ” asset value ,because any one  would be willing to pay $960 a month for that home and more if rates go up because the assumable mortgage guarantees a payment of $960 per month no matter  how high interest  rates go !. Plus if rates increase, they would pay you some added cash for that “mortgaged home” ! PLUS there is the added bonus that “We The People” receive a payback of $400,000 ,double our investment…..!!!!!
  • ….,monetary crisis (read pay off our debt at a rate of 10% or 10 equal payments per year,by using the income generated by The Federal Reserve Bank of America’s interest (revenue) bearing LOANS.This would be a symbolic gesture since really we could pay off the debt with a click of a computer.
  •  
    WE NEED TO CHANGE THE PRESENT SYSTEM AND START ON THE PATH OF A GREATER PROSPERITY.
    SOLUTION TO FINANCIAL,HOUSING, MONETARY CRISIS AND CREATION OF MILLIONS OF JOBS (READ BUSINESS LOANS MADE AT 2% FOR 6 YEARS with no payment due till 1 year anniversary date.) IMMEDIATELY AT NO COST TO THE TAXPAYERS;RATHER AT A PROFIT (READ INCOME) TO THE TAXPAYERS.
    The FRBA shall control the money supply by setting terms and conditions for the loans,thereby fulfilling their mandate to control inflation,deflation,and stagnation. .Affordable loans at low rates and longer terms ( 2012 residential real estate loans would be at 2% for 36 years as rates will be changed depending upon economic conditions .2012 Business loans would be at 2% for 6 (six) years with no payments for the first year.)This would create at least 4 million jobs immediately and may even reduce the unemployment rate to under 4% within that year by creating the jobs and homes and products needed for this new prosperity that would be a result of this new monetary policy.
    The Federal Reserve Bank of AMERICA will replace the Federal Reserve and will be mandated to preserve the quantity and quality of the US Dollar and to provide Congress with funding for the general welfare,life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness
    AMERICAN GOLD.
    The American Dollar will be based upon THE AMERICAN TREASURE (“ITS GOLD”) !
    That is the full faith and credit of the American people backed up by the US Constitution and all assets physical and intellectual…
    Americans ” shall and will pay all debts,foreign and domestic.”
    The American people are BETTER THAN GOLD, and have tremendously more assets then the worlds gold. Why would we limit our future to only a single metal ?We have all the elements as assets that are greater and in more abundance than gold as well as  intellectual assets that are limitless,why trade them for such a finite amount of gold,gold that is already owned by others?
    Ben Franklin,Thomas Jefferson,and many more used this method ,the lending of taxpayers money , to start the colonies on the road to financial success. Then the lender banks took it away from the people by having legislators replace the practice allowing them to make the loans (make our money) and keep the interest for themselves,and at the same time guarantee that they the lenders get paid. We the people will no longer pay interest for the use of our own money,or guarantee lenders that they will be paid interest on our money for making loans.
    To insure the funding of this great society and insure prosperity there would be a great stream of income:
    (INTEREST FROM DOLLAR LOANS.):
    Lets use a start figure of $51 trillion in loans,that which is already in circulation.(guesstimate,hope it is more)It will go on the balance sheet as $51 trillion loan assets. This asset will double every 18 years….1 X 18 = 102 trillion,2 X 18 =204 trillion.
    Private Banks will be the only source for deposits and savings. Private Banks will no longer be allowed to do fractional banking . All loans will require 100% deposit backing. PRIVATE BANKS WILL BE ENTITLED TO THEIR PROFITS SINCE THEY WILL BE RISKING THEIR OWN MONEY AND MONEY THEY ARE INSURING THEMSELVES. Banks may borrow from The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States of America (HOPE THEY NEED ANOTHER $51 TRILLION) and use that borrowed money for their own account for their own investing;at the prevailing rate and terms.(2012 would be 2% for 36 years)  NO MORE FREE RIDE !( Some say they may need over $200 trillion to unwind their derivatives, and yes we could do international lending.)
    Good-bye income taxes as they are known today.
    CAUTION: They will try FEAR tactics to keep US away from our rights. Remember ,”We have nothing to fear but fear itself”
    They will use the fear producing words,”inflation, hyperinflation, stagnation”.
    You can answer with the words,”I will not be enslaved by the most powerful force in the universe because we the people can use that most powerful force for the betterment of mankind and prosperity.”
    We the people can use that “most powerful force in the universe to control inflation,hyperinflation and stagnation “! !
    We the people will deal with the present possible economic tsunami,one tidal wave at a time .
    WE THE PEOPLE MUST TAKE CONTROL OF THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE AND USE IT FOR THE BETTERMENT OF MANKIND, OR WE SHALL PERISH !
    -WE NEED:
    TO CHANGE OUR ELECTED CHOICES!
    TO GET THOSE ELECTED TO OFFICE TO AGREE TO THE ONE MOST IMPORTANT ITEM OF CHANGE;THEY WILL ENDORSE THE “AMEND THE FEDERAL RESERVE CHARTER,THE NEW INCOME TAX OF  ZERO PERCENT, ( 0% )
    May “The Invisible Hand” continue to bless America.

 
 
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Great News!!Zero Income Taxes Solves Worldwide Economic Crises !

 

 
 
 
The answer lies in not how the most powerful force in the universe is used ,rather how you redistribute what it creates !
albert einstein“The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest”Albert Einstein
Great News!!Zero Income Taxes Solves Worldwide Economic Crises ! 
For the solution:”We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”.Albert Einstein
Perhaps the answer lies in how you redistribute the wealth of a nation; not in how you make it. 
 
The problems: 
ONE:Possible $1 quadrillion in “potential currency” was created by the financial institutions leading up to the crisis of 2007-8.
“Hernando de Soto says this credit crisis is all about (a lack of) paper” As stated by Justin Fox (March 25 2009)
If you think about it, everything of value we own travels on property paper. At the beginning of the decade there was about $100 trillion worth of property paper representing tangible goods such as land, buildings, and patents world-wide, and some $170 trillion representing ownership over such semi liquid assets as mortgages, stocks and bonds. Since then, however, aggressive financiers have manufactured what the Bank for International Settlements estimates to be $1 quadrillion worth of new derivatives (mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations, and credit default swaps) that have flooded the market.
These derivatives are the root of the credit crunch. Why? Unlike all other property paper, derivatives are not required by law to be recorded… Nobody knows precisely how many there are, where they are, and who is finally accountable for them. Thus, there is widespread fear that potential borrowers and recipients of capital with too many non performing derivatives will be unable to repay their loans. As trust in property paper breaks down it sets off a chain reaction, paralyzing credit and investment, which shrinks transactions and leads to a catastrophic drop in employment and in the value of everyone’s property.Read more: http://business.time.com/2009/03/25/hernando-de-soto-says-this-credit-crisis-is-all-about-a-lack-of-paper/#ixzz1lCKEaF3w
TWO:Private debt bubble.
The Debtwatch Manifesto by Steve Keen  (Jan 3rd, 2012)
“The fundamental cause of the economic and financial crisis that began in late 2007 was lending by the finance sector that primarily financed speculation rather than investment. The private debt bubble this caused is unprecedented, probably in human history and certainly in the last century …. Its unwinding now is the primary cause of the sustained slump in economic growth. The recent growth in sovereign debt is a symptom of this underlying crisis, not the cause, and the current political obsession with reducing sovereign debt will exacerbate the root problem of private sector de leveraging.”
 
THREE:Financial institutions allowed to create “currency”. 
How the Banks Broke the Social Compact, Promoting their Own Special Interests
by Prof. Michael Hudson  ;
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28938 
“The inherently symbiotic relationship between banks and governments recently has been reversed. In medieval times, wealthy bankers lent to kings and princes as their major customers. But now it is the banks that are needy, relying on governments for funding – capped by the post-2008 bailouts to save them from going bankrupt from their bad private-sector loans and gambles.
Yet the banks now browbeat governments – not by having ready cash but by threatening to go bust and drag the economy down with them if they are not given control of public tax policy, spending and planning. The process has gone furthest in the United States. Joseph Stiglitz characterizes the Obama administration’s vast transfer of money and pubic debt to the banks as a “privatizing of gains and the socializing of losses. It is a ‘partnership’ in which one partner robs the other.”  Prof. Bill Black describes banks as becoming criminogenic and innovating “control fraud.”  High finance has corrupted regulatory agencies, falsified account-keeping by “mark to model” trickery, and financed the campaigns of its supporters to disable public oversight. The effect is to leave banks in control of how the economy’s allocates its credit and resources.
If there is any silver lining to today’s debt crisis, it is that the present situation and trends cannot continue. So this is not only an opportunity to restructure banking; we have little choice. The urgent issue is who will control the economy: governments, or the financial sector and monopolies with which it has made an alliance.
Fortunately, it is not necessary to re-invent the wheel. Already a century ago the outlines of a productive industrial banking system were well understood. But recent bank lobbying has been remarkably successful in distracting attention away from classical analyses of how to shape the financial and tax system to best promote economic growth – by public checks on bank privileges. 

Governments can create new credit electronically on their own computer keyboards as easily as commercial banks can. And unlike banks, their spending is expected to serve a broad social purpose, to be determined democratically. When commercial banks gain policy control over governments and central banks, they tend to support their own remunerative policy of creating asset-inflationary credit – leaving the clean-up costs to be solved by a post-bubble austerity. This makes the debt overhead even harder to pay – indeed, impossible. 

It is too early to forecast whether banks or governments will emerge victorious from today’s crisis. As economies polarize between debtors and creditors, planning is shifting out of public hands into those of bankers. The easiest way for them to keep this power is to block a true central bank or strong public sector from interfering with their monopoly of credit creation. The counter is for central banks and governments to act as they were intended to, by providing a public option for credit creation. 
FOUR:The most powerful force in the universe is being used against mankind,rather than for the benefit of mankind.
“…. The Mathematics of Compound Interest
A syndicate of less than one hundred American capitalists, if allowed to collect interest on their capital at a low rate and re-invest for 150 years or less, would at the end of that time own the earth and all real and personal property thereon. This is a simple mathematical proposition, capable of exact demonstration, and any one who doubts the truth of this statement may set all doubts at rest by computing compound interest on one and one-half billions of dollars for one hundred and fifty years, at five per cent per annum.
…Flürscheim elaborated that “All exertions, all improvements in the methods and tools of labor, the strictest economy, the severest self-denial, are powerless to compete with the rapidity of self-increase possessed by capital placed at compound interest, and they cannot keep up with its demands.” To illustrate the dynamic at work, he composed an allegory (pp. 327ff.). Many ages after man was driven from Paradise and told “to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, mercy began to prevail. A loving angel was sent down by the Great Master, charged with the task of lightening the burden. The angel’s name was Spirit of Invention. He began his work by teaching man to make useful tools” and tame animals, and in time to mobilize water power, air and wind power, fire and steam power to drive machinery.
“It seemed that at last the golden era had come of which men had dreamed for ages past,” but “that envious spirit, that fallen angel, Satan,” was jealous that his own empire would soon be over for ever. Among the follies of man, one little imp, called Interest, managed to attract his attention. “‘What is the matter with you, Interest?’ he asked the saucy imp. ‘You don’t seem to be so dejected as your comrades are?’”
“‘Why should I be dejected, master?’ replied the spirit, ‘Am I not one of your favorite soldiers? Haven’t I always been victorious under your august guidance?’”
But Satan answered sadly, “Alas, You are no match for the Spirit of Invention.” The Interest imp, however, volunteered to demonstrate his prowess in a dual, helped by his son, Compound Interest.
At this point, Flürscheim introduced an image that Napier had suggested at the outset of his second book on logarithms in 1617, the Robdologia, likening the principle of geometric increase to that of a chess-board on which each square doubled the number assigned to the preceding one. An old Persian proverb told of a Shah who wished to reward the inventor of chess, a subject, and asked what he would like. To the Shah’s surprise, the man asked “as his only reward that the Shah would give him a single grain of corn, which was to be put on the first square of the chess-board, and to be doubled on each successive square; which, to the surprise of the king, produced an amount larger than the treasures of his whole kingdom could buy. It is this kind of chess-game which capital is continually playing with labor.” The remarkable growth of compound interest soon swallowed “products, capital, the earth and even the workers.”
This was in essence the ploy that Flürscheim’s Compound Interest demon used. “Look at this chess-board,” he told the angel against whom Satan had pitted him. “It seems just like any other chess-board, with sixty-four squares,” but it “had the peculiar quality of extending the dimensions of the squares, so as always to be large enough” to hold whatever was placed on them. Instead of asking for grains of wheat to be placed on them, the Interest Imp asked for soldiers. “Now, listen well to what I propose,” he said to the angel, pointing to the latter’s huge army.
I enter the first square with my son, and you match one of your warriors against us. We enter the second square doubled in number; you send two more warriors – and so on every succeeding square. . . . When we arrive at the last square, and you have a single soldier left after occupying the same, we shall declare ourselves vanquished, and Satan with all his troops will leave this world for ever. If I win, you and your army are to be at the commands of my master. Are you agreed?
The angel agreed, expecting his horde of soldiers to easily exceed the number that the Interest Imp and his son, Compound Interest, seemed likely to accrue.
In the beginning the angel laughed, for, though twenty squares were passed, no noticeable diminution of his forces was perceptible. Demon Interest said nothing, but attended to business, quietly doubling his army on every succeeding square. At the thirtieth square the angel ceased to laugh, and soon saw he was lost.
‘I despised you, little fellow,’ he signed despairingly, ‘and I am punished for my vanity. I see there is no use fighting against you. Demon Interest is more powerful than the Spirit of Invention. I am your slave. Command your servant!’”
 
(THIS IS THE TIPPING POINT ! Justaluckyfool’s comment explained  in next paragraph)
‘I am the only servant of my great master,’ dryly replied the demon.
 
“Here I see him coming. He will give you his orders.’
And Satan gave his orders. He commanded that the angel was to continue in his work with all his troops, which were to be increased with all possible exertion, so that humanity – which did not know the nature of the antagonist it had to fight against – would always keep in fresh hope of final success when the new troops were forthcoming. But as fast as they appeared, Demon Interest was to send forth a larger army to capture the new forces, to enslave them, and – instead of their benefiting man – make them increase the slave-chains which weigh him down.
 
WHAT IF DEMON INTEREST WERE TO ANSWER? (Justaluckyfool’s comment explained),
I will now be the servant of a new master,one that will pursue happiness for all mankind.”
The answer lies in how you redistribute the wealth, not in how you make it.
As for the worlds wealth, there is the possibility of total accumulation through compound interest (the most powerful force in the universe) which then begs the question, “How would that wealth be redistributed ? Who will be the master?
 
“HOW THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE” COULD BE USED TO PUT MANKIND INTO SERVITUDE OR UTOPIA ! 
 
Where we went wrong:

Fractional Reserve Banking,allowing private institutions to “print” our money ,which then  allows  them to charge compound interest on that potential money.
 

 

If it were possible to sum up the single greatest flaw to capitalism ,it would be :It allows for the “most powerful force in the universe”… to quote Einstein,” compounding ”  interest  to be used against that society.The lender becomes the owner of all the money based upon the act of compounding at any rate within a long period of time.
 A cycle that commands total money control or it must bust. When will we learn and believe that a private bank is allowed to print new money ,Ten,twenty,even fifty times what it has in deposit.If a bank has $1 million to loan it is allowed to lend $900,000 at 10% using the process “Fractional Reserve Banking” The lender makes with that creation  a bank asset (loan) of $900,000 which allows another loan of $810,000,on and on,even to 30X and 40X leverage.
 
THE SOLUTION: 
ONE. AMEND THE FEDERAL RESERVE CHARTER; TURN THE FED RESERVE INTO THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF AMERICA (FRBA),RESTORE MONETARY POWER BACK TO THE PEOPLE ,OPERATE  THE  FRBA WITH  ABSOLUTE TRANSPARENCY, (“GLINDA,the Good Witch, owns a Great Book of Records that allows her to track everything that goes on in the world from the instant it happens.”_The Road to Oz)
ESTABLISH THE FRBA AS THE ONLY MEANS FOR MONETARY SUPPLY,ALL OTHER INSTITUTIONS MUST MAINTAIN 100% MARGIN ON ALL INVESTMENTS.
TWO:ESTABLISH A ZERO FEDERAL INCOME TAX.
INTEREST INCOME WILL REPLACE PERSONAL  INCOME TAXES.
 
The Federal RESERVE Bank of America,make it the melting pot for Federal Reserve.,FDIC,FHFA,and the GSE’s,Fannie,Freddie,Ginnie and Sally, as well as the IRS.These organizations will be needed to service
the FEDERAL LOANS..
AMEND THE FEDERAL RESERVE CHARTER making it a people’s owned bank.
1a*All loans by any financial institution must be backed with 100% reserves.No more Fractional Reserve Banking.No more production by private banks of this Monetary Sovereignty’s currency.All loans may be used as assets for borrowing from The FRBA so that they comply with the 100% reserve. Any loan that is not in compliance must be sold to the FRBA or the financial institution would be placed into receivership. 
1b*The Federal Reserve will no longer be needed as its mandate (control inflation,deflation and stagnation,as well as unemployment) will be passed on to THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF AMERICA. Also the FDIC and FHFA as their mandates will no longer be required. Private banks will have to be self-insured. Risk 100% their own investors money  for 100% reward.
1c*It will be operated by the people,of the people and for the people”.THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF AMERICA will be the source for the American borrower to acquire funds and the interest paid shall be revenue income to be used as funding of their government agenda,for the general welfare.
THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF AMERICA will be the maker of all loans,not guarantee them for others, they will be the maker of these loans and will retain all profits. Profits which by law will be turned over to the US Treasury,as funds for Congress for government expensive’s.
The Federal Reserve Bank of America:
-Will no longer allow the paying of interest for the use of its own money,rather it will charge interest for the use of its money..
Will take away from others the right to “print” our own currency.
Will stop the stupid practice of paying interest on our own money.
Will wake up and realize that “There is only one fair Income Tax,period; only zero is fair.
-Will not take deposits from anyone other than for the  US Treasury.
-Will not be involved in any financial investment services.
The Federal Reserve Bank of America will be the sole lender of legal tender. Any financial institution that wishes to loan American Dollars ,those dollars must be acquired (read borrowed)  from the Federal Reserve Bank of America,as all loans must be backed with a 100% reserve from either dollars on hand or borrowed from the FRBA.
FRBA will purchase ALL residential and commercial REAL ESTATE loans outstanding at full balance owed.Any private lender may retain any loan it has by simply showing 100% reserve.
 
The American people will be the lenders and no longer will they be the victims of private greed of those printing our own money..No longer will they allow the banks that they have entrusted with their money to use that money to make profits for themselves .Profits will be made by the people,of the people, for the people. Taxpayers bailout for Taxpayers by Taxpayers paying compounded interest to Taxpayers . These loans would provide trillions of dollars as TAXPAYER PROFIT (REVENUE)!
 
Compound interest will cause any amount to double over a certain period of time.This doubling alone will provide an enormous income stream. If loans are made for $100 trillion,the incoming payments would exceed $5 trillion a year for 36 years @2%. What a magnificent way to fund a government. 

Since the FRBA will be taking back all currency issued,it would be absolutely necessary to redistribute most if not all over a period of time.(If not ,then the debt would be UN PAYABLE).

As Einstein said,”Make it simple.”
TERMINATE THE STUPID PRACTICE OF PAYING INTEREST ON OUR OWN MONEY TO PRIVATE BANKS .A PRACTICE THAT CAN ONLY END WITH A FINANCIAL BUST,OR SERVITUDE !

The next wave of stuff that will hit the fan may be the “CRISIS in the derivatives market” if you think stuff was “too big to fail” before,join me in sleepless nights knowing the derivatives market is more than $800 trillion ! ! That’s $800,000,000,000,000 !
If $1 quadrillion is needed,better yet,that would produce(2% for 36 years) an income for “We the People” of over $55 trillion a year .WITH NO INFLATION (it would be an asset purchase, not disposable income) and $55 trillion a year  would be vacuumed out of the economy each year ($55 trillion)  with only needing to use a portion for funding for the general welfare and the remainder for quality and quantity control of the currency. as well as making new loans.No inflation,no new  bubbles (with 100% margin, a greater fool would not be able to continue the escalation needed to fuel the bubble,plus who would be willing to take the risk using “just their own money”..
MUST IMPORTANT it will allow the financial institutions to de leverage their now 100% margin assets  over 36 years,thereby preventing a “ burst”.
It will prevent a “crack- up-boom” because the “created potential money” will not be available for circulation,it will be needed to payback the loans, since they would be otherwise un payable.
“There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of the voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.” – Ludwig von Mises
 
Great News;Zero Income Taxes Solves Worldwide Economic Crises !
THE  MEANS OF AVOIDING THE FINAL COLLAPSE !
 Back the credit with 100% of borrowed dollars,allowing the financial institutions to de-leverage at a cost of 2% for 36 years.Prevent collaspe and at the same time serve a new master-”We The People”
 
THE PEOPLE’ S CHOICE:
Total catastrophe
or
ZERO Income Taxes.
 
 
***** ”Believe nothing merely because you have been told it…But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis,you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit,the welfare of all beings – that doctrine believe and cling to,and take it as your guide.”- Buddha[Gautama Siddharta] (563 – 483 BC), Hindu Prince, founder of Buddhism
When will we show our leaders,
 (as stated on “ 60 minutes” (12/11/11)”
President Obama said,”You can’t raise revenues by lowering taxes unless you get the money from somewhere else.” ?
YES, JUST COLLECT INTEREST ON OUR OWN MONEY, INSTEAD OF TAXES !

The Federal Reserve Bank of AMERICA will be agency for the Federal Reserve Charter and will be mandated to preserve the quantity and quality of the US Dollar and to provide Congress with funding for the general welfare,life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness
Just like that ,we the people may just have solved our;
financial crisis (read loan the financial institutions the money to unwind their derivatives to 100% asset based with a rate of 2% for 36 years.) ,
housing crisis (read modify all  loans that are  purchased from the lenders AT FULL REAL BALANCE  modify with  a rate of 2% for 36 years.Very low and affordable payments on an assumable mortgage. READ,how this will make a gigantic increase in revenue for the taxpayers, instead of income taxes.
How can we prove that the purchase of $51 trillion of REAL ESTATE LOANS with a FAIR VALUE of maybe just $30 trillion give the taxpayers a revenue income GREATER than the $51 trillion.
THE ANSWER AS EINSTEIN SAYS, “KEEP IT SIMPLE”,
is in the “magic” of that “most powerful force in the universe”.
It allows for the borrower to be willing to pay off the higher amount in order to gain the asset and eventually actually increase the value of the asset.
 E.G., A loan with todays terms and conditions on a home that has  a balance of $200,000 on an asset that is valued at $100,000 with a payment of $1,200 per month (6%rate). Why pay it ? If the loan is for 30 years you would have to pay in $360,000. Plus no one would want to get you OUT of that nightmare mortgage.
But if you take that same loan, $200,000 on that same value $100,000 with a payment of $960 per month (2%/36yr).With an ASSUMABLE MORTGAGE you create an instant “$200,000 ” asset value ,because any one out there would be willing to pay $960 a month for that home.Plus if rates increase,they would pay you some added cash for that “mortgaged home” since ,no matter how high rates go that home will only be $960 per month !
 
….,monetary crisis (read pay off our debt at a rate of 10% or 10 equal payments per year,by using the income generated by The Federal Reserve Bank of America’s interest (revenue) bearing loans.This would be a symbolic gesture since really we could pay off the debt with a click of a computer.
 
WE NEED TO CHANGE THE PRESENT SYSTEM AND START ON THE PATH OF A GREATER PROSPERITY.
SOLUTION TO FINANCIAL,HOUSING, MONETARY CRISIS AND CREATION OF MILLIONS OF JOBS (READ BUSINESS LOANS MADE AT 2% FOR 6 YEARS with no payment due till 1 year anniversary date.) IMMEDIATELY AT NO COST TO THE TAXPAYERS;RATHER AT A PROFIT (READ INCOME) TO THE TAXPAYERS.
The FRBA shall control the money supply by setting terms and conditions for the loans,thereby fulfilling their mandate to control inflation,deflation,and stagnation. .Affordable loans at low rates and longer terms ( 2011 Private loans would be at 3% for 72 years as rates will be changed depending upon economic conditions .2011 Business loans would be at 2% for 6 (six) years with no payments for the first year.)This would create at least 4 million jobs immediately and may even reduce the unemployment to under 4% within that year by creating the jobs and homes and products needed for this new prosperity that would be a result of this new monetary policy.
The Federal Reserve Bank of AMERICA will replace the Federal Reserve and will be mandated to preserve the quantity and quality of the US Dollar and to provide Congress with funding for the general welfare,life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness
AMERICAN GOLD.
The American Dollar will be based upon THE AMERICAN TREASURE (“ITS GOLD”) !
That is the full faith and credit of the American people backed up by the US Constitution and all assets physical and intellectual…
Americans “ shall and will pay all debts,foreign and domestic.”
The American people are BETTER THAN GOLD, and  have tremendously more assets then the worlds gold. Why would we limit our future to only a single metal ?We have all the elements as assets that are greater and in more abundance than gold and intellectual assets that are limitless,why trade them for such a finite amount of gold,gold that is already owned by others?
 Ben Franklin,Thomas Jefferson,and many more used this method ,the lending of taxpayers money , to start the colonies on the road to financial success. Then the lender banks took it away from the people by having legislators replace the practice allowing them to make the loans (make our money) and keep the interest for themselves,and at the same time guarantee that they the lenders get paid. We the people will no longer pay interest for the use of our own money,or guarantee lenders that they will be paid interest on our money for making loans.
To insure the funding of this great society and insure prosperity there would be a great stream of income:
(INTEREST FROM DOLLAR LOANS.):
Lets use a start figure of $51 trillion in loans,that which is already in circulation.(guesstimate,hope it is more)It will go on the balance sheet as $51 trillion loan assets. This asset will double every 18 years….1 X 18 = 102 trillion,2 X 18 =204 trillion.
Private Banks will be the only source for deposits and savings. Private Banks will no longer be allowed to do fractional banking . All loans will require 100% deposit backing. PRIVATE BANKS WILL BE ENTITLED TO THEIR PROFITS SINCE THEY WILL BE RISKING THEIR OWN MONEY AND MONEY THEY ARE INSURING THEMSELVES. Banks may borrow from The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States of America (HOPE THEY NEED ANOTHER $51 TRILLION) and use that borrowed money for their own account for their own investing;at the prevailing rate and terms. NO MORE FREE RIDE !( Some say they may need over $200 trillion to unwind their derivatives.)
Good-bye income taxes as they are known today.
CAUTION: They will try FEAR tactics to keep US away from our rights. Remember ,”We have nothing to fear but fear itself”
They will use the fear producing words,”inflation, hyperinflation, stagnation”.
You can answer with the words,”I will not be enslaved by the most powerful force in the universe because we the people can use that most powerful force for the betterment of mankind and prosperity.”
We the people can use that “most powerful force in the universe to control inflation,hyperinflation and stagnation “! !
We the people will deal with the present possible economic tsunami,one tidal wave at a time .
 
WE THE PEOPLE MUST TAKE CONTROL OF THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE AND USE IT FOR THE BETTERMENT OF MANKIND, OR WE SHALL PERISH !
 
 
PERHAPS,WE NEED A MILLION CITIZEN MARCH ON WASHINGTON ORGANIZED FOR AUGUST 2012 .
-WE NEED:
TO CHANGE OUR ELECTED CHOICES!
TO GET THOSE ELECTED TO OFFICE TO AGREE TO THE ONE MOST IMPORTANT ITEM OF CHANGE;THEY WILL ENDORSE THE “AMEND THE FEDERAL RESERVE CHARTER,THE NEW INCOME TAX OF 2012 ,ZERO PERCENT, ( 0% )
 
May  “The Invisible Hand” continue to bless America.
 
justaluckyfool
Here’s something found on the net .Believe it sums up why society or the 99% should not JUDGE AN ENTIRE GROUP IN ITS ENTIRERTY,RATHER JUDGE EACH INDIVIDUALLY.
From ….aish.com :
” Wealth and the Occupy Wall Street Movement”
I wish the Occupy Wall Street movement would be a little clearer about what they’re protesting.
Even as it continues to grow and gain followers outside of New York, with satellite protests in more than 60 American cities as it threatens to go global, the demonstrators still haven’t directly identified their enemy.And before I can make up my mind whether or not I support them, I think they need to tell us whether this is more about money or morality.
What troubles me is that much of the anger of the protesters seems to be fueled by a sentiment about wealth … There have always been people who believed that spirituality demands that we forsake materialism. Rich people are wicked by definition. Accumulating a great deal of money is a sin.
….Wealth is not ignoble; it presents us with precious opportunities. …The philosopher Philo had it right when he summed ..(the) sentiment in these words: “Money is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.”
Wealth may destroy those who possess it but it can also be the source of the greatest blessing. Precisely because it has this quality, it becomes doubly holy. When we choose to use a potentially destructive object in a positive and productive manner, we have learned the secret of true (wealth).
“Show me your checkbook stubs,” said the noted psychologist, Erich Fromm, “and I’ll tell you everything about yourself.” Self-indulgence or selflessness? Wine, women, and song or charitable works? Hedonism or helping others? …
For those whose crusade against Wall Street is synonymous with a vendetta against all those with wealth, there needs to be recognition of the great good accomplished by many of those who’ve been blessed with prosperity. Just because someone has “made it” doesn’t make him a villain. To add the adjective “filthy” to the word rich in signs hoisted by Occupy Wall Street protesters is to unfairly castigate those who … may have rewarded because they’re wise enough to work on … creating a better world.
We could all learn much from Michael Bloomberg, the self-made billionaire founder of the Bloomberg financial information firm and New York Mayor, who for two years in a row was the leading individual living donor in the United States, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy. He recently said he intends to give away most of his fortune, because “the best measure of a philanthropist is that the check he leaves to the undertaker bounces.” And that will insure that he dies a very happy man.
Capitalism isn’t only about accumulating more and more money. Just a few years ago TIME named Bill and Melinda Gates as its “Persons of the Year.” Gates, a Wall Street superstar, was acknowledged as one of the most influential people in the country – not because of how much money he has but because of how much of it he is willing to give away. He came to the conclusion that greed isn’t meant to be our goal in life.
Having made more money than he will ever need, he has one more vision that drives him. He would love to convince world business leaders that being socially responsible isn’t just altruism but sound business practice. Gates says he has learned that greed is self-defeating. It destroys the very people who make it their god.
Today Gates is spearheading a drive to get the super wealthy to publicly commit themselves to giving away most of their fortunes for charitable purposes – and Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and one of the world’s wealthiest men, among others has signed on to this noble endeavor.
When the Occupy Wall Street crowd talks about cleaning up corruption, when it points a finger at all those whose financial recklessness plunged the country into the Great Recession, when it gives voice to the anger we all feel at the perpetrators of highly immoral business practices that hurt millions of innocent victims – for all of these righteous causes they deserve our unqualified thanks.
It’s only when they confuse anyone who is wealthy with the enemy that I think we need to remind them that just as much as the poor don’t deserve to be despised for their poverty, the rich don’t deserve to be hated simply because they have money.
This article originally appeared on www.aish.com.

 
Some banking quotes,
Lord Acton ,UK,”If I am correct, there are even bigger scandals to come when the tide goes out again, although there will be great efforts made to cover them up and excuse them ‘for the sake of public confidence in the system.’ The derivatives market is a scandal-in-process, and is likely to rock the US banking system and the Dollar to their foundations when it topples. “
Lord Acton, Banking quotes:
“The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.”
John Adams, Banking quotes:
“Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquilit­y, prosperity­, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.”
John Adams, Banking quotes:
“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constituti­on or Confederat­ion, nor from want of honor or virtue, so much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulatio­n.”
“There may be even larger losses and anxiety for the unsuspecting who have misplaced their trust in false ideologies, slogans and theories promoted by a self-serving oligarchy.”

 
 
 
 
 

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Can Social Media make the “invisible hand”, visible ?

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There is an Alternative to Neoliberal Monetary Austerity
 
By Prof. Michael Hudson
Global Research, March 4, 2012
2,181 Italians pack a Sports Arena to learn Modern Monetary Theory:
The Economy doesn’t Need to suffer Neoliberal Austerity
Michael Hudson
I have just returned from Rimini, Italy, where I experienced one of the most amazing spectacles of my academic life. Four of us associated with the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC) were invited to lecture for three days on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and explain why Europe is in such monetary trouble today – and to show that there is an alternative, that the enforced austerity for the 99% and vast wealth grab by the 1% is not a force of nature.
Stephanie Kelton (incoming UMKC Economics Dept. chair and editor of its economic blog, New Economic Perspectives), criminologist and law professor Bill Black, investment banker Marshall Auerback and me (along with a French economist, Alain Parguez) stepped into the basketball auditorium on Friday night. We walked down, and down, and further down the central aisle, past a packed audience reported at over 2,100. It was like entering the Oscars as People called out our first names. Some told us they had read all of our economics blogs. Stephanie joked that now she understood how the Beatles felt. There was prolonged applause – all for an intellectual rather than a physical sporting event.
With one difference, of course: Our adversaries were not there. There was much press, but the prevailing Euro-technocrats (the bank lobbyists who determine European economic policy) hoped that the less discussion of possible alternatives to austerity, the easier it would be to force their brutal financial grab through.
All the audience members had contributed to raise the funds to fly us over from the United States (and from France for Professor Alain Parguez), and treat us to Federico Fellini’s Grand Hotel on the Rimini beach. The conference was organized by reporter Paolo Barnard, who had studied MMT with Randall Wray and realized that there was plenty of demand in Italian mass culture for a discussion of what actually was determining the living conditions of Europe. His aim was to show that the emerging financial elite hopes to use this crisis as their opportunity to carve out personal fiefdoms by privatizing the public domain of the governments they have seduced, bribed or coerced into unnecessary debt. Instead of using a central bank to finance their deficits, governments are told to dump these assets under distress conditions at fire sale prices. So governments end up beholden to bondholders and Eurocrats drawn from neoliberal ranks.
Paolo and his enormous support staff of translators and interns provided us an opportunity to give an approach to monetary and tax theory and policy that until recently was almost unheard of in the United States. Just one week earlier the Washington Post published a review of MMT (followed by a long discussion in the Financial Times . But the theory remains grounded primarily at the UMKC’s economics department and the Levy Institute at Bard College, with which most of us are associated.
The basic thrust of our argument is that just as commercial banks now create credit electronically on their computer keyboards (creating a bank account credit for borrowers in exchange for their signing an IOU at interest), so governments can create their own money. They can reclaim this proper function without incurring needless interest-bearing debt to private bondholders or from banks that create credit by electronic fiat. Government computer keyboards can provide nearly free credit creation to finance spending.
Once the money is created by government, the crucial difference is that governments spend it (at least in principle) to promote long-term growth and employment, invest in public infrastructure, research and development, provide health care and other basic economic functions. Banks have a more short-term time frame and narrowly self-interested motivation. Some 80% of their loans are mortgages against real estate. Banks lend against collateral in place, and the economy’s largest assets are land and buildings. Although banks loans also are used to finance leveraged buyouts and corporate takeovers, most new fixed capital investment by corporations is financed out of retained earnings, not bank credit.
And contrary to popular belief, the stock market has ceased to be a source of such financing. Textbook diagrams still depict it as raising money for new capital investment. Unfortunately, it has been turned into a vehicle to buy out companies on credit (e.g., with high interest junk bonds), replacing equity with debt (“taking a company private” from its stockholders). Inasmuch as interest payments are tax-deductible – on the pretense that they are a necessary cost of doing business – corporate income-tax payments are lowered. And what the tax collector relinquishes is available to be paid out to the bankers and bondholders who get rich by loading the economy down with debt.
The upshot is that the flow of corporate earnings is not used for productive investment, but is diverted to the financial sector – not only to pay interest and penalties to banks, but for stock buybacks intended to support stock prices and hence the value of stock options that managers of today’s financialized companies give themselves.
Welcome to the post-industrial economy, financial style. Industrial capitalism has passed through a series of stages of finance capitalism, from Pension-Fund capitalism via Globalized Dollarization and the Bubble Economy to the Negative Equity stage, foreclosure time, debt deflation, and austerity – and now what looks like debt peonage in Europe, above all for the PIIGS: Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain. (The Baltic countries of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania have been plunged so deeply into debt that their populations are emigrating to find work and flee debt-burdened real estate. The same has plagued Iceland since its bank rip-offs collapsed in 2008.)
Why aren’t economists describing these phenomena? The answer is a combination of political ideology and analytic blinders. As soon as the Rimini conference ended on Sunday evening, for instance, Paul Krugman’s Monday, February 27 New York Times column, “What Ails Europe?” blamed the euro’s problems simply on the inability of countries to devalue their currencies. He rightly criticized the Republican Party line that blames social welfare spending for the Eurozone’s problems, and also criticized putting the blame on budget deficits.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/opinion/krugman-what-ails-europe.html?hp  
But he left out of account the straitjacket of the European Central Bank (ECB) inability to monetize the deficits by issuing currency or more typically, simply writing checks on the central bank’s own account. This prohibition is a result of the junk economic theology written into the EU constitution. Krugman’s rejection of MMT leads him to ignore this option:
“If the peripheral nations still had their own currencies, they could and would use devaluation to quickly restore competitiveness. But they don’t, which means that they are in for a long period of mass unemployment and slow, grinding deflation. Their debt crises are mainly a byproduct of this sad prospect, because depressed economies lead to budget deficits and deflation magnifies the burden of debt.”
 
There are two problems with this neoclassical trade analysis. First, currency depreciation lowers the price of labor, while raising the price of imports. The burden of debts denominated in foreign currencies increases in keeping with the devaluation. This creates problems unless governments pass a law re-denominating all debts in their own domestic currency. This will satisfy the Prime Directive of international financing: always denominate debts in your own currency, as the United States does.
Fortunately, sovereign nations can do this ex post facto. In 1933, for instance, Franklin Roosevelt nullified the Gold Clause in U.S. loan contracts, enabling banks and other creditors to be paid in the equivalent gold value. But any sovereign government can rule how debts are to be paid (or not paid, for that matter). In his usual neoclassical fashion, Mr. Krugman ignores this debt issue:
“The afflicted nations [the PIIGs], in particular, have nothing but bad choices: either they suffer the pains of deflation or they take the drastic step of leaving the euro, which won’t be politically feasible until or unless all else fails (a point Greece seems to be approaching). Germany could help by reversing its own austerity policies and accepting higher inflation, but it won’t.”
 
So the existing system could work, he contends, if only Germany would inflate its economy and more German tourists spend more in Greece – assuming that the Greek government would tax enough of this spending to balance its budget. If Germany does not bail out the failed and dysfunctional economic structure, Greece will have to withdraw – but devaluation will restore equilibrium.
This is typical neoclassical over-simplification. Leaving the euro is not sufficient to avert austerity, foreclosure and debt deflation if Greece and other countries that withdraw retain the neoliberal anti-government, post-industrial policy that plagues the Eurozone. If the post-euro economy has a central bank that still refuses to finance public budget deficits, forcing the government to borrow from commercial banks and bondholders. What if the government still believes that it should balance the budget rather than provide the economy with spending power to increase its growth? In this case the post-euro government will tie itself in the same policy straitjacket that the Eurozone now imposes.
Suppose further that the Greek government slashes public welfare spending, and bails out banks for their losses, or takes losing bank gambles onto the public balance sheet, as Ireland has done. For that matter, what if the governments do what the neoliberal Obama Administration in the United States has done, and refrain from writing down real estate mortgages and other debts to the debtors’ ability to pay, as Iceland and Latvia have failed to do? The result will be debt deflation, forfeiture of property, rising unemployment – and a rising tide of emigration as the domestic economy and employment opportunities shrink. The budget deficit and balance-of-payments deficit both will worsen, not improve.
Mr. Krugman’s second error of omission is his assumption that government budgets need to be balanced. He misses the MMT point that governments can finance deficits rather than relying on bondholders. The monetary effect is identical: credit-financed spending. The difference – and it is essential – is that the government is not constrained by having to tax the economy to finance its operations, and it does not go further in debt to banks and bondholders. But despite his counter-cyclical Keynesianism, Mr. Krugman shares in principle the neoliberal mythology that demonizes the public option for credit creation, while approving private sector debt financing (even in foreign currencies!). The upshot is to make economies behave as if they still were on the gold standard, needing to borrow savings (in “hard” assets), when in fact the banks have simply sold the illusion that their electronic balance-sheet entries are “as good as gold.” That world ended in 1971 when the United States went off gold. Since then, all currencies are state currencies – often backed by U.S. Treasury IOUs rather than their own money, to be sure.
So what then is the key? It is to have a central bank that does what central banks were founded to do: monetize government budget deficits so as to spend money into the economy, in a way best intended to promote economic growth and full employment.
This is the MMT message that the five of us were invited to explain to the audience in Rimini. Some attendees came up and explained that they had come all the way from Spain, others from France and cities across Italy. And although we gave many press, radio and TV interviews, we were told that the major media were directed to ignore us as not politically correct.
Such is the censorial spirit of neoliberal monetary austerity. Its motto is TINA: There Is No Alternative, and it wants to keep matters this way. As long as it can suppress discussion of how many better alternatives there are, the hope is that the public will remain quiescent as their living standards shrink and wealth is sucked up to the top of the economic pyramid to the 1%.
The audience was vocally against remaining in the eurozone – to the extent that continued adherence to it meant submission to neoliberal pro-financial policies. (The proceedings were videotaped and will be transcribed and placed on the web. Pacifica KPFA broadcaster Bonnie Faulkner attended and is compiling a series of programs and will re-interview the speakers for her “Guns and Butter” program.) They had no naivety that withdrawal by itself would cure the problems that they originally hoped EU membership would solve: Italian political corruption, tax evasion by the rich, insider dealings, and most of all, the power of banks to siphon off the surplus and control the government, the mass media and even the universities in an attempt to brainwash the population to believe that financial control of resource allocation, tax policy and wealth distribution was all for the best to make the economy more efficient.
The audience requested above all more monetary and fiscal theory from Stephanie Kelton, who gave the clearest lecture on economics I have ever heard – a Euclidean presentation of MMT logic.
The size of the audience filling the sports stadium to hear our economic explanation of how a real central bank should operate to avoid austerity and promote rather than discourage employment showed that the government’s attempt to brainwash the population was not working. (For a visual of the magnitude, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP60tpwu5cs .)

The attempt to force TINA logic on the population is not working any better than it did in Harvard’s Economics 101 class, from which students recently walked out in protest against the unrealistic parallel universe thinking. Its appeal is mainly to intelligent but ungrounded individuals (not yet post-autistic). They are selected as useful idiots and trained to draw pictures of the economy that exclude analysis of the debt overhead, rentier free lunches and financial parasitism. One needs to be very clever, after all, to imagine a system that “saves the appearances” of an unrealistic Ptolemaic system. Any positive role for government and a real central bank not oppressed under the thumb of private-sector bankers and financial engineers seeking to suck the economic surplus out of nations much as military conquerors did in past centuries.

There is a growing sense that Western civilization itself is at a critical juncture. It must choose between needless austerity and progress – but progress is blocked by the reluctance to write down the debt overhead. So as Prof. Kelton noted, economies face two different types of growth policy. Neoliberal policy promises to help the body politick grow by draining the blood from the body, ostensibly to help it grow more healthy and restore its balance (with all power to the wealthy 1%). The MMT policy is feed the body to help it grow healthy. This requires liberating the brain – the government and policy makers that implement an economic philosophy – from the financial sector’s control.
 
Epilogue
Now that summary videos have begun to be placed on the web, a Norwegian economist wrote to me
 
I do not understand what is new about this:
governments can create money … to promote long-term growth …
What IS new is that somebody finally listens.
There seems to a hunger out there for somebody (with the “right background”) to tell people plain simple common sense.
 
What MMT teaches today is indeed long-established knowledge and practice. The degree to which its logic and message have been excluded from the academic curriculum is testament to the neoliberal version of free markets: their policy only appears to work if they can excluded discussion of any alternatives – and indeed, exclude economic history itself.

 

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Some really good articles. Must reading.Plus comments by justaluckyfool

 

Who wants Jamie Dimon’s job?

May 14, 2012 at 6:39 pm | #3
 
Now we will try this reply in English.
Place all the market Gurus and Economist in a room and ask, “Who is willing to pay a percentage of their salary to cover losses or only accept a equal percentage of the winnings ?”
Who among those would also admit that they would have to be “Justaluckyfool”.That is,
“Anyone that attemps to predict a future event (price) is a fool, if by chance correctly
then they are just a lucky fool, yet still a fool.”
And please ask if they would be willing to give back to the “people” the sole right to issue their own currency and also give up the right to charge compound interest on that newly created money.
Read: Where we went wrong and How we can fix it.Read ..”Great News !!Zero Income Taxes Solves Worldwide Ecnomic Crises” by justaluckyfool
THEN:
For the solution:”We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”.Albert Einstein
Perhaps the answer lies in how you redistribute the wealth of a nation; not in how you acquire it.
***** “Believe nothing merely because you have been told it…But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis,you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit,the welfare of all beings – that doctrine believe and cling to,and take it as your guide.”- Buddha[Gautama Siddharta] (563 – 483 BC), Hindu Prince, founder of Buddhism
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Saturday, May 12 2012   At long last, are we ready to end private banking?
 
Why not cure the disease instead of killing the patient?
End Fractional Reserve Banking,enforce 100% reserve.(This may also be the solution to “bubbles and inflation” ??)
End FDIC,enforce self insurance (Fed may use this opportunity to gain revenue instead of taxes by leanding the banks $2 trillion @ 2% for 36 years
to fund their insurance pool Giving taxpayers an tncome of $110 billion per annum.)What a great way to fund “the general welfare..
All part of the “Great News !! Zero Income Taxes…” program.
JPM had a 2% loss on its position, should make you wonder,
“What are the other positions?”
But then again ask,”Who made the $2 billion profit ?”
Banks should be allowed to invest for themselves as a function of private banking BUT they must also pay their own losses since they also keep their gains.
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A new group: Brake the Banks
  1. BRAVO,well said.
    NOTE:” In the Obama America, banks and their officers are immune from the law.”
    (read In America Banks are the law and believe the law makers are not subject to their own laws.)
    But they are allowed to do this and more because they are allowed to “ELECTRONICALLY PRINT OUR CURRENCY”
    This allows them to make loans for 9,or ten times the amount of currency on hand.This is based on the principle of RESERVE BANKING, this allows banks to profit on their interest TEN FOLD without any of their own “skin” in the game.They have made the most powerful force in the universe even more powerful.And POWER CORRUPTS.
    BRAKE THE BANKS PARTY should have as two candidates for office,SHEILA BLAIR (former FDIC) and BROOKSLEY BORN (former CFTC).(read AMAZON PARTY,they surely were giants working for the people.)
    *****PLEASE CHANGE<CHALLENGE< OR ENDORSE!****
    Posted on November 24, 2011 by justaluckyfool
    “Bank Of America Warned By U.S. Regulators It Must Get Stronger ““That could be especially true now that the Federal Reserve said late Tuesday that BofA, along with five other large U.S. banks, will need to give the Fed loss estimates early next year that accounts for a “hypothetical global market shock.”
    huffingtonpost
    A DREAM COME TRUE ? read justalucky­fool.wordp­ress.com “The All Inclusive Solution.T­he Federal Bank of America”Please allow me one more dream…Sh­eila Blair(former FDIC) and Brooksly Born (former CFTC),our next President and Sect of Treas ! !
    …Adam Smith,plea­se show how “the invisible hand” could get this done.
    justaluckyfool@aol
    As Thomas Jefferson said,“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around (these banks) will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power (of currency) should be taken from the banks and restored to the people,to whom it properly belongs,”
    “THE ALL INCLUSIVE SOLUTION.THE FEDERAL BANK OF AMERICA” justaluckyfool.wordpress.com
    ********THREE STEPS TO A SOLUTION*************
    Bernanke and Geithner:
    Meet with JPMChase,CITICORP,Deutsche Bank
    THROW Bank of America” under the bus” !
    SAVE AMERICA
    ^Allow JP,Citi,Deutsche to purchase all assets EXCLUDING LOANS AND OFFICES at fair market value,even lend them the money to do it,(2% for 6 years).
    ^Notify all financial institution that fractional reserve lending will
    no longer be allowed,that all loans must be 100% asset backed,changing the 10% present system with a 10% increase every 30 days untill 100% is reached.
    Financial institutions could sell any loan to the FBA at fair market value
    if needed.
    ^Make a FEDERAL BANK !
    Challenge,Change,and then Endorse “The All Inclusive Solution.The Federal Bank of America”
    http://www.justaluckyfool.wordpress.com
     
  1. “hypothetical global market shock.”
    What is so hypothetical about $800,000,000,000,000,(read EIGHT HUNDRED TRILLION,OR 80% of a QUADRILLION) in a world that only has ,what around $80,$85 trillion.
    That’s what is out there in derivatives.
    You want to talk LEVERAGE?
    What if they are at a 20% loss on these bets?
    How do you pay off a $16 trillion loss?
    Depends on whose loss it is. The U.S. government, being Monetarily Sovereign, could pay such a bill by pressing a few computer keys, and marking up the checking accounts of the creditors.
    In fact current U.S. “debt” (i.e. outstanding T-securities) is about $15 trillion, and I suggest the U.S. liquidate them by debiting all T-security accounts and crediting the checking accounts of T-security holders. This would eliminate all worries about our so-called “debt.”
    This would not create any new money (T-bills are a form of money); it would be a simple asset transfer from one bank account to another.
    As for the euro government . . . being monetarily non-sovereign, they can’t even pay their current debts.
    Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
     
    • Rodger,
      It is time to start “street level education”. Our current set of leaders are useless at this point:
      Educate, Educate, Educate….your wife, your kids, your neighbors, your co-workers, your friends, your fellow church attenders, etc(street level education is needed).
      And once they get it ask THEM to do the same.
      Mansoor H. Khan
       
      • Yes.
        How can we start with with Khan Academy?
        “I teach the way that I wish I was taught. The lectures are coming from me, an actual human being who is fascinated by the world around him.”
        —Sal
        RMM start with the defininsion of Monetary Sovereign.
         
         
      • justluckfool,
        We need to start with a model of how the real economy works and teach that first. Specially how currency relates to the production process.
        MMT and MS only make sense in context of a Keynesian like mental model of the economy.
        Please see the first comment on this thread.
         
         
    • *Depends on whose loss it is. The U.S. government, being Monetarily Sovereign, could pay such a bill by pressing a few computer keys, and marking up the checking accounts of the creditors.”
      Absolutely correct,but they need only pay out that part of the debt that is FDIC insured ( because the banks would go into receivership) and since most of the crap was deliberately “off the books” they would simply default,or better yet,if this concept is understood;LEND THEM THE CURRENCY NEEDED AT COMPOUND INTEREST.
      This would be one hellafa “hat trick”.-The 1% paying the taxes of the 99%.
       
  2.  

  3. How The Fed can Stop Spending, Raise Revenue, Lower Taxes, Increase Employment, and lead US to prosperity !!
    Have you ever read the Federal Reserve Act? The authorizing legislation projected a body “to provide for…
  4.  the establishment of the Federal Reserve banks…
    Where they went wrong-they established Federal Reserve Banks owned by private banks, domestic and foreign.
    How we can fix it-establish Federal Reserve Banks owned “by the people,of the people,for the people
  5.  
    … to furnish an elastic currency…
    Where we went wrong-the elastic currency’s quality and quantity can be controlled by private banks using a legalize counterfeit system called Fractional -Reserve Banking.
    How we can fix it- end Fractional Reserve Banking making the correctly established Federal Reserve Bank the ONLY supplier of new currency.
  6.  
    … to afford means of rediscounting commercial paper and to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the United States..
    .
    Where we went wrong-allowing private banks to charge compound interest on the paper they create “out of thin air”.
    How we can fix it-private banks will only be allowed to invest, or purchase assets with 100% margin.They will be responsible for all
    losses and entitled to all gains.
  7.  
    … and for other purposes…”
    Where we went wrong- By now can we identify the operative phrase? Of course: “for other purposes.”
    How we can fix it-For the purpose of funding, ““We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,…””
    *******The Bill Of Rights******MUST AMEND THE FED*****
    *******
    READ……”Great News !! Zero Income Taxes Solves Worldwide Economic Crises” by justaluckyfool
    Challenge It or,
    ***** “Believe nothing merely because you have been told it…But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis,you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit,the welfare of all beings – that doctrine believe and cling to,and take it as your guide.”- Buddha[Gautama Siddharta] (563 – 483 BC), Hindu Prince, founder of Buddhism
     

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“Bailing Out Banks is inflationary”Justaluckyfool says, “Yes, BUT.No problem.

 
…..”
This development led major central banks around the world to take coordinated action…announced that they would provide unlimited amounts of base money via liquidity swap agreements “to support to the global financial system…By such action, central banks are signaling that they stand ready to take over banks’ refinancing in whatever currency: should investor demand for bank obligations fail to “return to normality,” central banks will fill banks’ funding gaps with newly created base-money balances.”
 
 
…”

The increase in the base-money stock is far from being neutral. First and foremost, an increase in the (fiat) base-money supply is inflationary: it lowers the purchasing power of a money unit (below the level that would prevail had the money supply remained unchanged)….
While a policy of increasing the base-money supply might avoid immediate output and employment losses by keeping banks afloat, preventing them from defaulting on their liabilities, the important question is whether such a policy will help restoring the economies back to health.
From the viewpoint of the Austrian School of economics, the answer is no. Ludwig von Mises showed that a boom-induced fiat money — and today all major currencies represent fiat money — can only be kept going by further and further increases in fiat money (or fiduciary media), created through bank circulation credit expansion, leading to artificially lowered market interest rates. He wrote,
A credit-expansion boom must unavoidably lead to a process which everyday speech calls the depression.… The depression is in fact the process of readjustment, of putting production activities anew in agreement with the given state of the market data.
 
At some point,
The crack-up boom appears. Everybody is anxious to swap his money against “real” goods, no matter whether he needs them or not, no matter how much money he has to pay for them. Within a very short time, within a few weeks or even days, the things which were used as money are no longer used as media of exchange. They become scrap paper. Nobody wants to give away anything against them.
 
Also Justaluckyfool would quote, 
There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of the voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. – Ludwig von Mises
 

This seems to me to be in agreement with this article. 

Justaluckyfool,however  prefers  as Einstein said,“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”.
and  “Believe nothing merely because you have been told it…But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis,you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit,the welfare of all beings – that doctrine believe and cling to,and take it as your guide.”- Buddha[Gautama Siddharta] (563 – 483 BC), Hindu Prince, founder of Buddhism
What created the problem.
1. Private banks being allowed to issue currency,using Fraction Reserve Banking.
2. These same institutions being allowed to charge interest on that currency.
 
The Solution; Make them take their own poison. No longer allow them to do it, namely,Fractional Reserve Banking and charge interest on that potential currency.
There is a means to avoid serious inflation and avoid the collapse.
LEND THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ALL THE CURRENCY THEY NEED, CHARGE THEM COMPOUND INTEREST.
Make $1 quadrillion available at 2% interest for 36 years.
They will have 36 years to deleverage,this surely will prevent a burst, and little actual inflation
because the currency would be replacing an asset.An asset they will return (take out of supply)
$55 trillion as revenue to the US Treasury.
 
CLARIFICATION OF CAUSES.
 
 
One….

“Hernando de Soto says this credit crisis is all about (a lack of) paper”

If you think about it, everything of value we own travels on property paper. At the beginning of the decade there was about $100 trillion worth of property paper representing tangible goods such as land, buildings, and patents world-wide, and some $170 trillion representing ownership over such semiliquid assets as mortgages, stocks and bonds. Since then, however, aggressive financiers have manufactured what the Bank for International Settlements estimates to be $1 quadrillion worth of new derivatives (mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations, and credit default swaps) that have flooded the market.
These derivatives are the root of the credit crunch. Why? Unlike all other property paper, derivatives are not required by law to be recorded, continually tracked and tied to the assets they represent. Nobody knows precisely how many there are, where they are, and who is finally accountable for them. Thus, there is widespread fear that potential borrowers and recipients of capital with too many nonperforming derivatives will be unable to repay their loans. As trust in property paper breaks down it sets off a chain reaction, paralyzing credit and investment, which shrinks transactions and leads to a catastrophic drop in employment and in the value of everyone’s property.Read more: http://business.time.com/2009/03/25/hernando-de-soto-says-this-credit-crisis-is-all-about-a-lack-of-paper/#ixzz1lCKEaF3w
Posted In: Debtwatch

The fundamental cause of the economic and financial crisis that began in late 2007 was lending by the finance sector that primarily financed speculation rather than investment. The private debt bubble this caused is unprecedented, probably in human history and certainly in the last century …. Its unwinding now is the primary cause of the sustained slump in economic growth. The recent growth in sovereign debt is a symptom of this underlying crisis, not the cause, and the current political obsession with reducing sovereign debt will exacerbate the root problem of private sector deleveraging.
 
 
THREE. 
How the Banks Broke the Social Compact, Promoting their Own Special Interests
by Prof. Michael Hudson
READ ALL ; http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28938
 
 
How the Banks Broke the Social Compact, Promoting their Own Special Interests
by Prof. Michael Hudson
“The inherently symbiotic relationship between banks and governments recently has been reversed. In medieval times, wealthy bankers lent to kings and princes as their major customers. But now it is the banks that are needy, relying on governments for funding – capped by the post-2008 bailouts to save them from going bankrupt from their bad private-sector loans and gambles.
Yet the banks now browbeat governments – not by having ready cash but by threatening to go bust and drag the economy down with them if they are not given control of public tax policy, spending and planning. The process has gone furthest in the United States. Joseph Stiglitz characterizes the Obama administration’s vast transfer of money and pubic debt to the banks as a “privatizing of gains and the socializing of losses. It is a ‘partnership’ in which one partner robs the other.”2 Prof. Bill Black describes banks as becoming criminogenic and innovating “control fraud.”3 High finance has corrupted regulatory agencies, falsified account-keeping by “mark to model” trickery, and financed the campaigns of its supporters to disable public oversight. The effect is to leave banks in control of how the economy’s allocates its credit and resources.
If there is any silver lining to today’s debt crisis, it is that the present situation and trends cannot continue. So this is not only an opportunity to restructure banking; we have little choice. The urgent issue is who will control the economy: governments, or the financial sector and monopolies with which it has made an alliance.
Fortunately, it is not necessary to re-invent the wheel. Already a century ago the outlines of a productive industrial banking system were well understood. But recent bank lobbying has been remarkably successful in distracting attention away from classical analyses of how to shape the financial and tax system to best promote economic growth – by public checks on bank privileges.
 

Governments can create new credit electronically on their own computer keyboards as easily as commercial banks can. And unlike banks, their spending is expected to serve a broad social purpose, to be determined democratically. When commercial banks gain policy control over governments and central banks, they tend to support their own remunerative policy of creating asset-inflationary credit – leaving the clean-up costs to be solved by a post-bubble austerity. This makes the debt overhead even harder to pay – indeed, impossible.
 

It is too early to forecast whether banks or governments will emerge victorious from today’s crisis. As economies polarize between debtors and creditors, planning is shifting out of public hands into those of bankers. The easiest way for them to keep this power is to block a true central bank or strong public sector from interfering with their monopoly of credit creation. The counter is for central banks and governments to act as they were intended to, by providing a public option for credit creation.
 
READ MORE : http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28938 
 

Where we went wrong:

Allowing private financial institutions to charge compound interest
on our own money,money we are allowing them to issue (print).
 .
If it were possible to sum up the single greatest flaw to the American form of its democratic capitalism ,it would be :It allows for the “most powerful force in the universe”… to quote Einstein,” compounding ”  interest  to be used against that democracy.
This “most powerful force” is being used only for the enrichment of a few (1%) and the servitude of all others (99%).
The lender becomes the owner of all the money based upon the act of compounding at any rate within a long period of time.The present system has to change .
Private banks are lenders to the taxpayers who become borrowers. They are allowed to charge interest to taxpayers.
Private banks are allowed to “create money” by fractionation of money on hand and use that
newly created money to gain more money. A cycle that commands total money control or it must bust. The real kicker is that the borrower by todays system guarantees the lender,  they the lenders will not lose their money because the borrowers ( taxpayers)  are guarantors of their own servitude !When will we learn and believe that a private bank is allowed to print new money ,TEN times what it has in deposit.If a bank has $1 million to loan it is allowed to lend $900,000 at 10% Reserve banking. But with that creation is a bank asset (loan) of $900,000 which allows another loan of $810,000, an asset that allows another loan of $729,000,etc., etc,. Does this help explain,
“The Best Way to Rob a Bank, is to Own One” (William Black).It also explains how the world could have $1 Quadrillion in assets comprised of potential currency demands.
This process with compound interest could have only one final result;ownership of all the worlds money by a select group.What they then do with the money determines prosperity or serfdom.
“…. The Mathematics of Compound Interest
A syndicate of less than one hundred American capitalists, if allowed to collect interest on their capital at a low rate and re-invest for 150 years or less, would at the end of that time own the earth and all real and personal property thereon. This is a simple mathematical proposition, capable of exact demonstration, and any one who doubts the truth of this statement may set all doubts at rest by computing compound interest on one and one-half billions of dollars for one hundred and fifty years, at five per cent per annum.
…Flürscheim elaborated that “All exertions, all improvements in the methods and tools of labor, the strictest economy, the severest self-denial, are powerless to compete with the rapidity of self-increase possessed by capital placed at compound interest, and they cannot keep up with its demands.” To illustrate the dynamic at work, he composed an allegory (pp. 327ff.). Many ages after man was driven from Paradise and told “to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, mercy began to prevail. A loving angel was sent down by the Great Master, charged with the task of lightening the burden. The angel’s name was Spirit of Invention. He began his work by teaching man to make useful tools” and tame animals, and in time to mobilize water power, air and wind power, fire and steam power to drive machinery.
“It seemed that at last the golden era had come of which men had dreamed for ages past,” but “that envious spirit, that fallen angel, Satan,” was jealous that his own empire would soon be over for ever. Among the follies of man, one little imp, called Interest, managed to attract his attention. “‘What is the matter with you, Interest?’ he asked the saucy imp. ‘You don’t seem to be so dejected as your comrades are?’”
“‘Why should I be dejected, master?’ replied the spirit, ‘Am I not one of your favorite soldiers? Haven’t I always been victorious under your august guidance?’”
But Satan answered sadly, “Alas, You are no match for the Spirit of Invention.” The Interest imp, however, volunteered to demonstrate his prowess in a dual, helped by his son, Compound Interest.
At this point, Flürscheim introduced an image that Napier had suggested at the outset of his second book on logarithms in 1617, the Robdologia, likening the principle of geometric increase to that of a chess-board on which each square doubled the number assigned to the preceding one. An old Persian proverb told of a Shah who wished to reward the inventor of chess, a subject, and asked what he would like. To the Shah’s surprise, the man asked “as his only reward that the Shah would give him a single grain of corn, which was to be put on the first square of the chess-board, and to be doubled on each successive square; which, to the surprise of the king, produced an amount larger than the treasures of his whole kingdom could buy. It is this kind of chess-game which capital is continually playing with labor.” The remarkable growth of compound interest soon swallowed “products, capital, the earth and even the workers.”
This was in essence the ploy that Flürscheim’s Compound Interest demon used. “Look at this chess-board,” he told the angel against whom Satan had pitted him. “It seems just like any other chess-board, with sixty-four squares,” but it “had the peculiar quality of extending the dimensions of the squares, so as always to be large enough” to hold whatever was placed on them. Instead of asking for grains of wheat to be placed on them, the Interest Imp asked for soldiers. “Now, listen well to what I propose,” he said to the angel, pointing to the latter’s huge army.
I enter the first square with my son, and you match one of your warriors against us. We enter the second square doubled in number; you send two more warriors – and so on every succeeding square. . . . When we arrive at the last square, and you have a single soldier left after occupying the same, we shall declare ourselves vanquished, and Satan with all his troops will leave this world for ever. If I win, you and your army are to be at the commands of my master. Are you agreed?
The angel agreed, expecting his horde of soldiers to easily exceed the number that the Interest Imp and his son, Compound Interest, seemed likely to accrue.
In the beginning the angel laughed, for, though twenty squares were passed, no noticeable diminution of his forces was perceptible. Demon Interest said nothing, but attended to business, quietly doubling his army on every succeeding square. At the thirtieth square the angel ceased to laugh, and soon saw he was lost.
‘I despised you, little fellow,’ he signed despairingly, ‘and I am punished for my vanity. I see there is no use fighting against you. Demon Interest is more powerful than the Spirit of Invention. I am your slave. Command your servant!’”
(THIS IS THE TIPPING POINT ! Justaluckyfool’s comment explained  in next paragraph)
‘I am the only servant of my great master,’ dryly replied the demon.
“Here I see him coming. He will give you his orders.’
And Satan gave his orders. He commanded that the angel was to continue in his work with all his troops, which were to be increased with all possible exertion, so that humanity – which did not know the nature of the antagonist it had to fight against – would always keep in fresh hope of final success when the new troops were forthcoming. But as fast as they appeared, Demon Interest was to send forth a larger army to capture the new forces, to enslave them, and – instead of their benefiting man – make them increase the slave-chains which weigh him down.
WHAT IF DEMON INTEREST WERE TO ANSWER? (Justaluckyfool’s comment explained),
I will now be the servant of a new master,one that will pursue happiness for all mankind.”
 
**Please this is a little lengthy,but worth one bite at a time**
 
THE FIRST TWO BITES TO THE SOLUTION:
1. AMEND THE FEDERAL RESERVE CHARTER; TURN THE FED RESERVE INTO THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF AMERICA (FRBA),RESTORE MONETARY POWER BACK TO THE PEOPLE ,OPERATE  THE  FRBA WITH  ABSOLUTE TRANSPARENCY, (“GLINDA,the Good Witch, owns a Great Book of Records that allows her to track everything that goes on in the world from the instant it happens.”_The Road to Oz) ESTABLISH THE FRBA AS THE ONLY MEANS FOR MONETARY SUPPLY,ALL OTHER INSTITUTIONS MUST MAINTAIN 100% MARGIN ON ALL INVESTMENTS.
2. ESTABLISH A ONE PAGE INCOME TAX FORM,AN INCOME TAX THAT STARTS WITH 0% AND FICA 0%.INTEREST INCOME WILL REPLACE PERSONAL AND CORPORATE INCOME TAXES.
FORM is needed only to help control the quality and quantity of the monetary system.
The Federal RESERVE Bank of America,the melting pot for Federal Reserve.,FDIC,FHFA,and the GSE’s.
AMEND THE FEDERAL RESERVE CHARTER making it a people’s owned bank.
1a*All loans by any financial institution must be backed with 100% reserves.No more fractional reserve banking.No more production by private banks of this Monetary Sovereignty’s currency.All loans may be used as assets for borrowing from The FRBA so that they compley with the 100% reserve. Any loan that is not in compliance Must be sold to the FRBA os the financial institution will be placed into receivership. 
1b*The Federal Reserve will no longer be needed as its mandate (control inflation,deflation and stagnation,as well as unemployment) will be passed on to THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF AMERICA. Also the FDIC and FHFA as their mandates will no longer be required. Private banks will have to be self-insured. Risk 100% there own investors money  for 100% reward.
1c*THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF AMERICA (FRBA) will be a fully taxpayer owned bank and by law must be FULLY TRANSPARENT. (“GLINDA,the Good Witch, owns a Great Book of Records that allows her to track everything that goes on in the world from the instant it happens.”_The Road to Oz)
1d*It will be operated by the people,of the people and for the people”.THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF AMERICA will be the source for the American borrower to acquire funds and the interest paid shall be revenue income to be used as funding of their government agenda,for the general welfare.
The Federal Reserve Bank of America:
-Will no longer allow the paying of interest for the use of its own money,rather it will charge interest for the use of its money..
-Will not take deposits from anyone other than the US Treasury.
-Will not be involved in any financial investment services.
The Federal Reserve Bank of America will be the sole lender of legal tender. Any financial institution that wishes to loan American Dollars must acquire(read borrow) any legal tender that it may need from the Federal Reserve Bank of America,as all loans must be backed with a 100% reserve from either dollars on hand or borrowed from the FRBA.
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FRBA will purchase ALL residential and commercial loans outstanding at full balance owed.Any private lender may retain any loan it has by simply showing 100% reserve.Since most banks are leveraged at over thirty times (30X) full margin,the FRBA loan window would be open 24/7 for a special period of time untill the private institutions reach full margin requirements. The American people will be the lenders and no longer will they be the victims of private greed.No longer will they allow the banks that they have entrusted with their money to use that money to make profits for themselves .Profits will be made by the people,of the people, for the people. Taxpayers bailout for Taxpayers by Taxpayers paying compounded interest to Taxpayers . These loans would provide trillions of dollars as TAXPAYER PROFIT (REVENUE)!
Compound interest will cause any amount to double over a certain period of time.(Rule of 72). A 4% compound yearly interest rate will double the base amount in 18 years. The taxpayers will be the direct lender and make the profit (interest).This doubling alone will provide an enormous income stream. If loans are made for $100 trillion,the incoming payments would exceed $5 trillion a year. What a magnificent way to fund a government. Pay off all old debt and never need to go in debt again because we the people would demand that there be a reserve, as the income (payments )will be greater than the redistribution.(Not really needed as The USA is a Monetary Sorvereignty)(http://www.rodgermmitchell.wordpress.com/.
As Einstein said,”Make it simple.”
TERMINATE THE STUPID PRACTICE OF PAYING INTEREST ON OUR OWN MONEY TO PRIVATE BANKS .A PRACTICE THAT CAN ONLY END WITH A FINANCIAL BUST,OR SERVITUDE !
The Federal Reserve Charter as it stands now is a bank that is owned (shareholders) by other banks. This is the greatest banker fraud of all,and we know how Freddie and Fannie turned out.No more GSE’s. And because the present Federal Reserve Charter is the bankers bank,they are using taxpayers dollars to HELP THEIR BANKS more than to help people. When the banks made federal guaranteed loans,the FEDS guaranteed the loans with taxpayer dollars. Now they are supplying the banks with almost free money. This is exactly what we the people should do-become the owners of our money,the owners of the fruits of our labors.
Even now there is a plan (QE3) to purchase “toxic MBS’s”,$545 billion worth as starters. A good thing for the people and the economy,helping to save our homes and the housing industry.BUT BEING DONE IN A MANOR THAT IS AGAINST OUR RIGHTS FOR THE “PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS”. THE FEDERAL RESERVE AS IT IS CHARTERED NOW ,WILL GIVE THE MONEY TO THE BANKS(OUR MONEY) AND ALLOW THEM TO CHARGE US INTEREST TO USE IT !!!This should be done by the new Federal Reserve Bank of America buying these Mortgage backed securities ,modify them,make them affordable with reasonable interest terms and conditions,allowing the borrowers to pay interest instead of taxes.
(Read: michael-hudson.com/2001/04/the-mathemati…/
The next wave of stuff that will hit the fan may be the “CRISIS in the derivatives market” if you think stuff was “too big to fail” before,join me in sleepless nights knowing the derivatives market is more than $800 trillion ! ! That’s $800,000,000,000,000 !
If $1 quadrillion is needed,better yet,that would produce(2% for 36 years) an income for “We the People” of over $55 trillion a year .WITH NO INFLATION because that is the amount that would be vacuumed out of the economy each year ($55 trillion)  with only needing to use a portion for funding for the general welfare and the remainder for quality and quantity control of the currency. as well as making new loans.Moderated inflation,no bubbles burst,just a very small leak.
Lord Acton ,UK,”If I am correct, there are even bigger scandals to come when the tide goes out again, although there will be great efforts made to cover them up and excuse them ‘for the sake of public confidence in the system.’ The derivatives market is a scandal-in-process, and is likely to rock the US banking system and the Dollar to their foundations when it topples. “
Lord Acton, Banking quotes:
“The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.”
John Adams, Banking quotes:
“Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquilit­y, prosperity­, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.”
John Adams, Banking quotes:
“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constituti­on or Confederat­ion, nor from want of honor or virtue, so much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulatio­n.”
“There may be even larger losses and anxiety for the unsuspecting who have misplaced their trust in false ideologies, slogans and theories promoted by a self-serving oligarchy.”
BUT WE CANNOT SAY “We were not warned” read Brooksley Born,
“WARNING”
Read: “Web of Debt” written by Ellen Brown ( Ellen Brown ,she turns her 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).
Could you imagine the profit (read income revenue) The Federal Reserve Bank of America would make? Taxpayers paying interest as revenue income for the taxpayers government.
 
The Federal Reserve Bank of AMERICA will replace the Federal Reserve and will be mandated to preserve the quantity and quality of the US Dollar and to provide Congress with funding for the general welfare,life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness
Just like that ,we the people may just have solved our
… financial crisis (read loan the financial institutions the money to unwind their derivatives to 100% asset based with a rate of 3% for 36 years.) ,
… housing crisis (read modify all  loans that are  purchased from the lenders AT FULL REAL BALANCE  moditfy with  a rate of 3% for 72 years.Very low and affordable payments.) READ,how this will make a gigantic increase in revenue for the taxpayers, instead of income taxes.
….,monetary crisis (read pay off our debt at a rate of 10% or 10 equal payments per year,by using the income generated by The Federal Reserve Bank of America’s interest (revenue) bearing loans.This would be a symbolic gesture since really we could pay off the debt with a click of a computer.
 
WE NEED TO CHANGE THE PRESENT SYSTEM AND START ON THE PATH OF A GREATER PROSPERITY.
SOLUTION TO FINANCIAL,HOUSING, MONETARY CRISIS AND CREATION OF MILLIONS OF JOBS (READ BUSINESS LOANS MADE AT 2% FOR 6 YEARS with no payment due till 1 year anniversary date.) IMMEDIATELY AT NO COST TO THE TAXPAYERS;RATHER AT A PROFIT (READ INCOME) TO THE TAXPAYERS.
THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF AMERICA would be the only legal tender provider for all residential and commercial real estate loans,private personal and business loans.It would have branches in every state and territory.The FRBA shall control the money supply by setting terms and conditions for the loans,thereby fulfilling their mandate to control inflation,deflation,and stagnation. .Affordable loans at low rates and longer terms ( 2011 Private loans would be at 3% for 72 years as rates will be changed depending upon economic conditions .2011 Business loans would be at 2% for 6 (six) years with no payments for the first year.)This would create at least 4 million jobs immediately and may even reduce the unemployment to under 4% within that year by creating the jobs and homes and products needed for this new prosperity that would be a result of this new monetary policy.
The Federal Reserve Bank of AMERICA will replace the Federal Reserve and will be mandated to preserve the quantity and quality of the US Dollar and to provide Congress with funding for the general welfare,life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness
AMERICAN GOLD.
The American Dollar will be based upon THE AMERICAN TREASURE (“ITS GOLD”) !
That is the full faith and credit of the American people backed up by the US Constitution and all assets physical and intellectual…
Americans “ shall and will pay all debts,foreign and domestic.”
The American people are BETTER THAN GOLD, and  have tremendously more assets then the worlds gold. Why would we limit our future to only a single metal ?We have all the elements as assets that are greater and in more abundance than gold and intellectual assets that are limitless,why trade them for such a finite amount of gold,gold that is already owned by others?
We the people will create millions of jobs with commercial loans that will insure positive growth and employment.
We the people will have special terms and conditions for student loans that will insure the educational growth of all Americans .Extremely low rates, the rate is only used to cover losses. (read Ellen Brown”QE4- Jubelee”‘ ).
Ben Franklin,Thomas Jefferson,and many more used this method ,the lending of taxpayers money , to start the colonies on the road to financial success. Then the lender banks took it away from the people by having legislators replace the practice allowing them to make the loans (make our money) and keep the interest for themselves,and at the same time guarantee that they the lenders get paid. We the people will no longer pay interest for the use of our own money,or guarantee lenders that they will be paid interest on our money for making loans.
PART OF THE SOLUTION:
To insure the funding of this great society and insure prosperity there would be only one stream of income.
THE ONLY INCOME STREAM:
1. REVENUE (INTEREST) FROM DOLLAR LOANS.
Lets use a start figure of $51 trillion in loans,that which is already in circulation.(guesstimate,hope it is more)It will go on the balance sheet as $51 trillion loan assets. This asset will double every 18 years….1 X 18 = 102 trillion,2 X 18 =204 trillion. Private Banks will be the only source for deposits and savings. Private Banks will no longer be allowed to do fractional banking . All loans will require 100% deposit backing. PRIVATE BANKS WILL BE ENTITLED TO THEIR PROFITS SINCE THEY WILL BE RISKING THEIR OWN MONEY AND MONEY THEY ARE INSURING THEMSELVES. Banks may borrow from The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States of America (HOPE THEY NEED ANOTHER $51 TRILLION) and use that borrowed money for their own account for their own investing;at the prevailing rate and terms. NO MORE FREE RIDE !( Some say they may need over $200 trillion to unwind their derivatives.)
Good-bye income taxes as they are known today.
The Return on Investment could be $3 to $5 trillion a year. US TREASURY INCOME to be used to pay off debt,promote the general welfare .
Good-bye income taxes as they are known today.
THIS INCOME STREAM WOULD AVERAGE OVER $5 TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.
We the people would demand the debt be paid off ,end the possible servitude of our heirs.
We the people would demand a balanced budget.
We the people would demand a real monetary reserve be left in THE FRBA.
We the people would demand the general welfare,life,liberty,pursuit of happiness,for all the people
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CAUTION: They will try FEAR tactics to keep US away from our rights. Remember ,”We have nothing to fear but fear itself”
They will use the fear producing words,”inflation, hyperinflation, stagnation”.
You can answer with the words,”I will not be enslaved by the most powerful force in the universe because we the people can use that most powerful force for the betterment of mankind and prosperity.”
We the people can use that “most powerful force in the universe to control inflation,hyperinflation and stagnation “! !
We the people will deal with the present possible economic tsunami,one tidal wave at a time .
 
How can we prove that the purchase of $51 trillion of REAL ESTATE LOANS with a FAIR VALUE of maybe just $30 trillion give the taxpayers a revenue income GREATER than the $51 trillion.
THE ANSWER AS EINSTEIN SAYS, “KEEP IT SIMPLE”,
is in the “magic” of that most powerful force in the universe.
It allows for the borrower to be willing to pay off the higher amount in order to gain the asset and eventually actually increase the value of the asset.
 E.G., A loan with todays terms and conditions on a home that has a balance of $200,000 on an asset that is valued at $100,000 with a payment of $1,000 per month (6%rate). Why pay it ? If the loan is for 30 years you would have to pay in $360,000. Plus no one would want to get you OUT of that nightmare mortgage.
But if you take that same loan, $200,000 on that same value $100,000 with a payment of $500 per month (3% rate)
with an assumable mortgage you create an instant “$200,000 ” asset value ,because any one out there would be willing to pay $500 a month for that home.Plus if rates increase,they would pay you some added cash for that “mortgaged home” !
WE THE PEOPLE MUST TAKE CONTROL OF THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE AND USE IT FOR THE BETTERMENT OF MANKIND, OR WE SHALL PERISH !
 
We the people will deal with the present possible economic tsunami,one tidal wave at a time .
NO INFLATION ? Why,because by replacing  the “potential money” with currency we have created an asset that will produce a revenue income that will over a period of time (2% for 36 years) double.
As a matter of fact if payments are not partially redistributed, the note CAN NOT be paid as too much money would be pulled out of the economy..
 
 
QUOTE MISES…”

There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of the voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. – Ludwig von Mises
 
But yet there may be a means.Make the financial institution shallow their own poison pill.
LEND THEM THE MONEY AT COMPOUND INTEREST, AND NO MORE FACTIONAL RESERVE BANKING !

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MUST READ:The Global Debt Crisis: How We Got in It and How to Get Out by Ellen Brown

The Global Debt Crisis: How We Got in It and How to Get Out

Countries everywhere are facing debt crises today, precipitated by the credit collapse of 2008.  Public services are being slashed and public assets are being sold off, in a futile attempt to balance budgets that can’t be balanced because the money supply itself has shrunk.  Governments usually get the blame for excessive spending, but governments did not initiate the crisis.  The collapse was in the banking system, and in the credit that it is responsible for creating and sustaining.

Contrary to popular belief, most of our money today is not created by governments.  It is created by private banks as loans.  The private system of money creation has grown so powerful over the centuries that it has come to dominate governments globally.  But the system contains the seeds of its own destruction.  The source of its power is also a fatal design flaw.

The flaw is that banks advance “bank credit” that must be paid back with interest, while having no obligation to spend the interest they collect so that borrowers can earn it again and again, as they must in order to retire the debt.  Instead, this money is invested in various casinos beyond the borrowers’ reach. This leads to a continual systemic need for more new bank credit money, more debt with more interest attached, to prevent widespread defaults and deflationary collapse.

Today this problem is particularly evident in the EU.  The Euro is a fixed currency system that does not allow for expansion to meet the demands of the private lending casino.  The result is that EU member nations collectively are being crippled by debt.

There are more sustainable ways to run a banking and credit system, as will be shown.

How Banks Create Money

The process by which banks create money was explained by the Chicago Federal Reserve in a booklet called “Modern Money Mechanics.”  It states:

“The actual process of money creation takes place primarily in banks.” [p3]

“[Banks] do not really pay out loans from the money they receive as deposits.  If they did this, no additional money would be created.  What they do when they make loans is to accept promissory notes in exchange for credits to the borrowers’ transaction accounts.  Loans (assets) and deposits (liabilities) both rise [by the same amount].” [p6]   

“With a uniform 10 percent reserve requirement, a $1 increase in reserves would support $10 of additional transaction accounts.”  [p49]

 A $100 deposit supports a $90 loan, which becomes a $90 deposit in another bank, which supports an $81 loan, etc.

That’s the conventional model, but banks actually create the loans FIRST.  (Picture how a credit card works.)  Banks need deposits to clear their outgoing checks, but they find the deposits later.  Banks create money as loans, which become checks, which go into other banks.  Then, if needed to clear the checks, they borrow the money back from the other banks.  In effect, they borrow back the money they just created, pocketing the spread between the interest rates as their profit.  The rate at which banks can borrow from each other in the U.S. today (the Fed funds rate) is an extremely low 0.2%.

How the System Evolved

The current system of privately-issued money is traced in “Modern Money Mechanics” to the 17th century goldsmiths.  People who left gold with the goldsmiths for safekeeping would be issued paper receipts for it called “banknotes.”  Other people who wanted to borrow money were also happy to accept paper banknotes in place of gold, since the notes were safer and more convenient to carry around.  The sleight of hand came in when the goldsmiths discovered that people would come for their gold only about 10% of the time.  That meant that up to ten times as many notes could be printed and lent as the goldsmiths had gold.  Ninety percent of the notes were basically counterfeited.

This system was called “fractional reserve” banking and was institutionalized when the Bank of England was founded in 1694.  The bank was allowed to lend its own banknotes to the government, forming the national money supply. Only the interest on the loans had to be paid. The debt was rolled over indefinitely.

That is still true today. The U.S. federal debt is never paid off but just continues to grow, forming the basis of the U.S. money supply.   

The Public Banking Alternative

There are other ways to create a banking system, ways that would eliminate its ponzi-scheme elements and make the system sustainable.  One solution is to make the loans interest-free; but for Western economies today, that transition could be difficult. 

Another alternative is for banks to be publicly-owned.  If the people collectively own the bank, the interest and profits go back to the government and the people, who benefit from decreased taxes, increased public services, and cheaper public infrastructure.  Cutting out interest has been shown to reduce the cost of public projects by 30-50%.

In the United States, this system of publicly-owned banks goes back to the American colonists.  The best of the colonial models was in Benjamin Franklin’s colony of Pennsylvania, where the government operated a “land bank.”  Money was printed and lent into the community.  It recycled back to the government and could be lent and relent.  The system was mathematically sound because the interest and profits were returned to the government, which then spent the money back into the economy in place of taxes.  Private banks, by contrast, generally lend their profits back into the economy, or invest in private money-making ventures in which more is always expected back than was originally invested. 

During the period that the Pennsylvania system was in place, the colonists paid no taxes except excise taxes, prices did not inflate, and there was no government debt.

How Private Banknotes Became the National U.S. Currency

The Pennsylvania system was sustainable, but some early American colonial governments just printed and spent, inflating the money supply and devaluing the currency.  The British merchants complained, prompting King George II to forbid the colonists to issue their own money.  Taxes had to be paid to England in gold.  That meant going into debt to the English bankers.  The result was a massive depression.  The colonists finally rebelled and went back to issuing their own money, precipitating the American Revolution. 

In an international first, the colonists funded a war against a major power with mere paper receipts, and won.  But the British counterattacked by waging a currency war.  They massively counterfeited the colonists’ paper money, at a time when this was easy to do.  By the end of the war, the paper scrip was virtually worthless.  After it lost its value, the colonists were so disillusioned with paper money that they left the power to issue it out of the U.S. Constitution.

Meanwhile, Alexander Hamilton, the first U.S. Treasury Secretary, was faced with huge war debts, and he had no money to pay them.  He therefore resorted to the ruse used in England known as fractional reserve banking.  In 1791, Hamilton set up the First U.S. Bank, a largely private bank that would print banknotes “backed” by gold and lend them to the government. 

The ruse worked: the paper banknotes expanded the money supply, the debts were paid, and the economy thrived.  But it was the beginning of a system of government funded by debt to private bankers, who lent banknotes only nominally backed by gold. 

During the American Civil War, President Lincoln avoided a crippling war debt by returning to the system of government-issued money of the American colonists.  He issued U.S. Notes from the Treasury called “Greenbacks” rather than borrowing at usurious interest rates.  But Lincoln was assassinated, and Greenback issuance was halted.

In 1913, the privately-owned Federal Reserve was authorized to issue its own Federal Reserve Notes as the national currency. These notes were then lent to the government, eliminating the government’s own power to issue money (except for coins).  The Federal Reserve was set up to prevent bank runs, but twenty years later we had the Great Depression, the greatest bank run in history.  Robert H. Hemphill, Credit Manager of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, wrote in 1934:

“We are completely dependent on the commercial Banks.  Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit.  If the Banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve.”

For the bankers, however, it was a good system.  It put them in control. 

Setting the Global Debt Trap

Prof. Carroll Quigley was an insider groomed by the international bankers.  He wrote in Tragedy and Hope in 1966:

“The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.  

“The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements [BIS] in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations.  Each central bank… sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans….”   

The debt trap was set in stages.  In 1971, the dollar went off the gold standard internationally. Currencies were unpegged from gold and allowed to “float” in currency markets, competing with other currencies, making them vulnerable to speculation and manipulation.

In 1973, a secret agreement was entered into in which the OPEC countries would sell oil only in dollars, and the price of oil would be dramatically increased.  By 1974, oil prices had increased by 400% from 1971 levels.  Countries lacking oil had to borrow dollars from U.S. banks.

In 1981, the Fed funds rate was raised to 20%.  At 20% compound interest, debt doubles in under four years.  As a result, most of the world became crippled by debt.  By 2001, developing nations had repaid the principal originally owed on their debts six times over; but their total debt had quadrupled because of interest payments.

When debtor nations could not pay the banks, the International Monetary Fund stepped in with loans — with strings attached.  The debtors had to agree to “austerity measures,” including:

  • cutting social services
  • privatizing banks and public utilities
  • opening markets to foreign investors
  • letting currencies “float.”

Today, austerity measures are being imposed not just in developing countries but in the European Union and on U.S. States. 

The BIS: Apex of the Private Central Banking Pyramid

What Professor Quigley foretold about the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has also come to pass.  The BIS now has 55 member nations and heads the global financial pyramid. 

The power of the BIS was seen in 1988, when it raised the capital requirement of its member banks from 6% to 8% in an accord called Basel I.  The result was to cripple the Japanese banks, which until then were the world’s largest creditors. Japan entered a recession from which it has not yet recovered.

U.S. banks managed to escape by dodging the capital requirement.  They did this by moving loans off their books, bundling them up as “securities,” and selling them to investors.   

To persuade the investors to buy them, these mortgage-backed securities were protected against default with “derivatives,” which were basically just bets.  The “protection seller” collected a premium for agreeing to pay in the event of default.  The “protection buyer” bought the premium. Owning the asset was not required.  Like gamblers at a horse race, derivative players could bet without owning a horse. 

Derivatives became a very popular form of gambling.  The result was the mother of all bubbles, exceeding $500 trillion by the end of 2007. 

Because of securitization and derivatives, credit mushroomed.  Virtually anyone who walked in the door could get a loan. 

The tipping point came in August 2007, with the collapse of two hedge funds.  When the derivatives scheme was exposed, the market for derivative-protected securities suddenly dried up.  But the U.S. stock market did not collapse until November 2007, when new accounting rules were imposed.  The rules grew out of the Basel II Accords initiated by the BIS in 2004.  “Mark to market” accounting required banks to value their assets according to market demand that day.  Many U.S. banks, like those in Japan in the 1990s, suddenly had insufficient capital to make new loans. The result was a credit crisis from which the U.S. has not yet recovered.

The BIS has now become global regulator, just as Quigley foresaw.  In April 2009, the G20 nations agreed to be regulated by a Financial Stability Board based in the BIS, and to comply with “standards and codes” set by the Board.  The codes are only guidelines, but countries that fail to comply risk downgrades in their credit ratings, something so costly that the guidelines have effectively become laws. 

An article on the BIS website states that central banks in the Central Bank Governance Network should have as their single or primary objective “to preserve price stability.”  That means governments should not devalue the national currency by inflating the money supply; and that means not “printing money” or borrowing credit created by their own central banks.  Like the American colonies after King George took away their power to issue their own money, governments must fund their deficits by borrowing from private banks.  The bankers’ global control over currency issuance has become virtually complete.

The effects of this policy are particularly evident in the European Union, where EU rules allow deficits of only 3% of government budgets and prevent member countries from either issuing their own money or borrowing credit advanced by their own central banks.  Member nations must borrow instead from the European Central Bank, private international banks, or the IMF.  The result has been forced austerity measures, as seen in Greece and Ireland.  The system is so unsustainable that commentators are predicting that the EU may break up.   

The Way Out: Return the Money Power to Public Control

To escape the debt trap of the global bankers, the power to create the national money supply needs to be restored to national governments.  Alternatives include:

  • Legal tender issued directly by national treasuries and spent on national budgets. 
  • Publicly-owned central banks empowered to advance the nation’s credit and lend it to the government interest-free.
  • Nationalization of bankrupt banks considered “too big to fail” (after expunging or writing down bad debts on inflated bubble assets).  These banks could then issue credit to the public and serve the public’s banking needs, with the profits recycling back to the government, defraying the tax burden on the people.
  • Publicly-owned local banks (state, provincial, or municipal). 

Publicly-owned banks have been successfully established and operated in many countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, India, China, Japan, Korea, and Malaysia.  

In the United States there is currently only one state-owned bank, the Bank of North Dakota.  The model, however, has proven to be highly successful.  North Dakota is the only U.S. state to have escaped the credit crisis unscathed.  In 2009, while other states floundered, North Dakota had its largest budget surplus ever.  In 2008, the Bank of North Dakota (BND) had a return on equity of 25%.  North Dakota has the lowest unemployment rate in the country and the lowest default rate on loans.  It also has the most local banks per capita.

North Dakota has had its own bank since 1919, when  farmers were losing their farms to the Wall Street bankers.  They organized, won an election, and passed legislation.  The state is required by law to deposit all its revenues in the BND.  Like with the sustainable model of the bank of colonial Pennsylvania, interest and profits are returned to the government and to the local economy.

A growing movement is afoot in the United States to copy this public banking model in other states.  Fourteen U.S. state legislatures have now initiated bills for state-owned banks.

The model could also be replicated in other countries.  In Ireland, for example, where the major banks are insolvent and are already nationalized or soon will be, the government could deposit its revenues in its own publicly-owned banks, add sufficient capital to meet capital requirements, and leverage these funds to create interest-free credit for its own local needs.  That is exactly what Alexander Hamilton did when faced with government debts that were impossible to repay: he put the government’s existing funds in a bank, then borrowed the money back several times over, employing the accepted “fractional reserve” model. 

Japan’s solution is also a variant of what Alexander Hamilton proposed two centuries earlier.  Japan retains its status as the third largest economy in the world although it has a debt to GDP ratio of 226%.  Japan has “monetized” the national debt, turning it into the national money supply.  The government-owned Bank of Japan holds Japanese government debt equal to 100% of the nation’s GDP; and because the government owns the bank, this loan is interest-free and can be rolled over indefinitely.  An interest-free loan rolled over indefinitely is the equivalent of issuing money. 

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Ellen Brown is an attorney and president of the Public Banking Institute, http://PublicBankingInstitute.org.  In Web of Debt, her latest of eleven books, she shows how the power to create money has been usurped from the people, and how we can get it back.  Her websites are http://webofdebt.com and http://ellenbrown.com.

  

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“ZERO,The only fair income tax. TEXT FOR AUDIO,VIDEO

“Zero, THE ONLY FAIR INCOME TAX.”
 

There is no way an Income Tax could be Fair.
Even an ADDED VALUE tax is not Fair
Everyone has a basic right to the fruits of their own labor, and to use them for their own pursuit of happiness..
Yet every government must have a means to acquire funds to promote the general welfare, peace and prosperity of its people.
The American people have a mandate, a guide set in RULE OF GOVERNMENT ( US Constitution ) the ways and means to provide a FAIR METHOD OF RAISING REVENUES that could satisfy ALL funding. A method that has as a basis ZERO INCOME TAXES. 
When  asked about what income tax rates would be considered fair ,most answer, “20% to 35%” ,only  a few answered  0%.
President Obama said,”You can’t raise revenues by lowering taxes unless you get the money from somewhere else.”

Yes,you can lower them to zero and raise revenues somewhere else!
 
PUT IT TO THE TEST:
“Economic Solution 2012.Zero Income Tax.” 
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As John Adams said, “All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constituti­on or Confederat­ion, nor from want of honor or virtue, so much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulatio­n.”
WE NEED TO CHANGE THE PRESENT SYSTEM AND START ON THE PATH OF A GREATER PROSPERITY.
SOLUTION TO FINANCIAL,HOUSING, MONETARY CRISIS AND CREATION OF MILLIONS OF JOBS . AT NO COST TO THE TAXPAYERS;RATHER AT A PROFIT (READ INCOME) TO THE TAXPAYERS.
WE THE PEOPL MUST TAKE CONTROL OF THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE AND USE IT FOR THE BETTERMENT OF MANKIND, OR WE SHALL PERISH !
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Thank You,and may GOD continue to bless America.

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