The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free
Jahr:
2008
Aufl.:
3. erw. Aufl.
Anmerkung:
Rundumschlag zum US-Fed-System, in dem viele Symptome recht drastisch beschrieben werden. US-Amerikanische Befindlichkeit und Sichtweise, manchmal kurios (wenn etwa ausländische Kräfte und Machenschaften dem Dollar zusetzen), aber mit vielen Beispielen der spontanen Heterodoxie, die in Zukunft vielleicht auch die akademische Landschaft umkrempelt.
FOREWORD by Reed Simpson, Banker and Developer.............. xi INTRODUCTION: Captured by the Debt Spider ....................... 1 Section I THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD: FROM GOLD TO FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES ....... 9 Chapter 1 Lessons from The Wizard of Oz...................................... 11 2 Behind the Curtain: The Federal Reserve and the Federal Debt .............................................................23 3 Experiments in Utopia: Colonial Paper Money as Legal Tender ......................................................................35 4 How the Government Was Persuaded to Borrow Its Own Money ......................................................................47 5 From Matriarchies of Abundance to Patriarchies of Debt ...............................................................57 6 Pulling the Strings of the King: The Moneylenders Take England .......................................65 7 While Congress Dozes in the Poppy Fields: Jefferson and Jackson Sound the Alarm ..........................75 8 Scarecrow with a Brain: Lincoln Foils the Bankers .....................................................83 9 Lincoln Loses the Battle with the Masters of European Finance .............................................................91 10 The Great Humbug: The Gold Standard and the Straw Man of Inflation ..........................................97 Section II THE BANKERS CAPTURE THE MONEY MACHINE........................................ 105 11 No Place Like Home: Fighting for the Family Farm ........................................ 107 12 Talking Heads and Invisible Hands: The Secret Government ..................................................... 115 13 Witches′ Coven: The Jekyll Island Affair and the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 .............................. 123 14 Harnessing the Lion: The Federal Income Tax ............. 133 15 Reaping the Whirlwind: The Great Depression ........... 141 16 Oiling the Rusted Joints of the Economy: Roosevelt, Keynes and the New Deal ............................. 151 17 Wright Patman Exposes the Money Machine .............. 161 18 A Look Inside the Fed′s Playbook: ″Modern Money Mechanics″ ........................................... 171 19 Bear Raids and Short Sales: Devouring Capital Markets .............................................. 181 20 Hedge Funds and Derivatives: A Horse of a Different Color ............................................ 191 Section III ENSLAVED BY DEBT: THE BANKERS′ NET SPREADS OVER THE GLOBE................................. 201 21 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: From Gold Reserves to Petrodollars ................................ 203 22 The Tequila Trap: The Real Story Behind the Illegal Alien Invasion ..................................... 215 23 Freeing the Yellow Winkies: The Greenback System Flourishes Abroad .................... 223 24 Sneering at Doom: Germany Finances a War Without Money .................... 233 25 Another Look at the Inflation Humbug: Some ″Textbook″ Hyperinflations Revisited ................. 239 26 Poppy Fields, Opium Wars and Asian Tigers ............... 249 27 Waking the Sleeping Giant: Lincoln′s Greenback System Comes to China .............. 257 28 Recovering the Jewel of the British Empire: A People′s Movement Takes Back India ........................ 265 Section IV THE DEBT SPIDER CAPTURES AMERICA....... 275 29 Breaking the Back of the Tin Man: Debt Serfdom for American Workers ............................. 277 30 The Lure in the Consumer Debt Trap: The Illusion of Home Ownership .................................... 285 31 The Perfect Financial Storm ......................................... 293 32 In the Eye of the Cyclone: How the Derivatives Crisis Has Gridlocked the Banking System ................... 301 33 Maintaining the Illusion: Rigging Financial Markets ................................................ 313 34 Meltdown: The Secret Bankruptcy of the Banks .......... 325 Section V THE MAGIC SLIPPERS: TAKING BACK THE MONEY POWER.............. 335 35 Stepping from Scarcity into Technicolor Abundance ............................................ 337 36 The Community Currency Movement: Sidestepping the Debt Web with ″Parallel″ Currencies ............................................... 347 37 The Money Question: Goldbugs and Greenbackers Debate ............................... 357 38 The Federal Debt: A Case of Disorganized Thinking ................................... 367 39 Liquidating the Federal Debt Without Causing Inflation ................................................ 375 40 ″Helicopter″ Money: The Fed′s New Hot Air Balloon ....................................... 383 Section VI VANQUISHING THE DEBT SPIDER: A BANKING SYSTEM THAT SERVES THE PEOPLE .............................. 391 41 Restoring National Sovereignty with a Truly National Banking System .......................... 393 42 The Question of Interest: Ben Franklin Solves the Impossible Contract Problem..................................... 407 43 Bailout, Buyout, or Corporate Takeover? Beating the Robber Barons at Their Own Game .......... 417 44 The Quick Fix: Government That Pays for Itself .......... 425 45 Government with Heart: Solving the Problem of Third World Debt ..................... 435 46 Building a Bridge: Toward a New Bretton Woods ........................................ 441 47 Over the Rainbow: Government Without Taxes or Debt ............................... 451 Afterword THE COLLAPSE OF A 300 YEAR PONZI SCHEME.................................................... 463 Postscript: February 2008 - THE BUBBLE BURSTS ............ 465 Glossary ......................................................................................... 479
