Part 2: David Korten — COMMUNITY AND THE NEW ECONOMY: Why Wall Street can't be fixed and how to replace it

Part 2: David Korten is the author of the 2009 book: "Agenda for a New Economy" and chair of the board of YES Magazine. He is probably best known for his famous anti-globalization book: When Corporations Rule the World. He argues that pouring trillions of dollars in bail-out money into the Wall Street institutions that created the crisis does nothing to repair the failed economic system.

In this speech, given in March 2009 at the NW regional conference of Veterans for Peace, he analyzes two major flaws of the current economic system and points to ways to replace them. One is the monetary system, the other the concept of ever increasing growth, measured as GDP.


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David Korten's website is http://www.davidkorten.org

Source: TUC Radio
Aired: 4/29/09 12:10 AM

Part 1: David Korten — COMMUNITY AND THE NEW ECONOMY: Why Wall Street can't be fixed and how to replace it

Part 1: David Korten is the author of the 2009 book: "Agenda for a New Economy" and chair of the board of YES Magazine. He is probably best known for his famous anti-globalization book: When Corporations Rule the World. He argues that pouring trillions of dollars in bail-out money into the Wall Street institutions that created the crisis does nothing to repair the failed economic system.

In this speech, given in March 2009 at the NW regional conference of Veterans for Peace, he analyzes two major flaws of the current economic system and points to ways to replace them. One is the monetary system, the other the concept of ever increasing growth, measured as GDP.


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David Korten's website is http://www.davidkorten.org

Source: TUC Radio
Aired: 4/29/09 12:00 AM

Tom Greco — Audio from the first talk - Keynote Speaker (Whanganui New Zealand)

Tom Greco is a community and monetary economist, writer, networker, and consultant, who for three decades has been working at the leading edge of transformational restructuring. He is regarded as a leading expert in monetary theory and history, credit clearing systems, community economic development and complementary currencies.

He is currently Director of the Community Information Resource Center , a US non-profit networking hub, which provides information access and administrative support for efforts in community improvement, social justice and sustainability.

Tom Greco is in New Zealand as the keynote speaker for the Community Currencies Conference being held in Whanganui April 17 - 19.

His new book, The End of Money and the Future of Civilization, is to be released this month (Chelsea Books). His previous book, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender, is available from the Living Economies Educational Trust.

Out of all the conversations about relocalization and community resilience, the conversations about local currencies and alternative, people-centred economics may well be the most important of all and have the biggest bearing on how communities survive or not as the world financial system implodes.


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Tom Greco's website is http://www.reinventingmoney.com

Source: Radio4All
Aired: 4/18/09 12:00 AM

Michael Hudson — The Financial Barbarians at the Gate

Interview with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. We discuss the US balance of payments trade deficit which creates US credit to finance the US national debt and war abroad; Russian economic shock therapy as the final stage of the cold war; the real estate bubble; permanent war and the inevitable collapse of the current US dominated global economic system.


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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com

Source: KPFA Guns & Butter
Aired: 4/15/09 12:00 AM

Michael Hudson — Global Research News hour (WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2009)

GUEST: Michael Hudson has had a long, varied, and distinguished career as a Wall Street insider, leading economist, expert on financial history, and Research Professor at the University of Missouri. He's also an author, consultant, head of a Harvard-based economic and financial history group, and president of the Institute for the Study of Long Term Economic Trends (INSLET).

In 1972, Hudson's important book "Super Imperialism" was published. It was updated in a 2003 edition that's every bit as relevant now. His book and mid-June article will be discussed, "De-Dollarization: Dismantling America's Financial-Military Empire."


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Michael Hudson's website is: http://www.michael-hudson.com

Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 4/15/09 12:00 AM

Ellen Brown — Global Research News hour (TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2009)

GUEST: Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial topics. Her latest book is titled "Web of Debt," a brilliant analysis of the private cartel Federal Reserve and how it usurped money creation power to control its supply and price, then charge the government interest on its own money.

She writes often on the global economic crisis. Discussion will focus on her latest article - an open letter to president Obama to "Revive Lincoln's Monetary Policy" (by) restoring the government's power" to control money.


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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com

Source: Republic Broadcasting Network
Aired: 4/13/09 12:00 AM

Tom Greco — Community Currencies (RadioNZ Saturday Morning with Kim Hill 11 April 2009)

Author, advisor and speaker on money who is a guest speaker at the upcoming Community Currencies Conference 2009 in Wanganui. (duration: 32′40″)


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Tom Greco's website is http://www.reinventingmoney.com

Source: Radio New Zealand
Aired: 4/11/09 12:00 AM

Bill Moyers — Bill Black, Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman "Corruption in America's Banks?"

The financial industry brought the economy to its knees, but how did they get away with it? With the nation wondering how to hold the bankers accountable, Bill Moyers sits down with Bill Black, the former senior regulator who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. Black offers his analysis of what went wrong and his critique of the bailout. And, Bill Moyers talks with alternative media heavyweights Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman about what can and can't be addressed in big corporate media.


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Bill Moyers' website is http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/

Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Aired: 4/03/09 12:00 AM

Part 2: Ellen Brown — Escaping the Global Web of Debt

Part 2: Ellen Hodgson Brown discusses, Web of Debt, her book about the US Federal Reserve, the so called ‘Money Trust’, and global banking. What are derivatives? What went wrong with the global banking industry and how quickly can it be fixed? Ellen Brown’s 2007 book, Web of Debt, outlined the state of global economic and banking systems, and explained that there simply wasn’t enough money to bail out the banks from a massive derivatives default. The book was a warning that when investors finally realized that the “insurance” they purchased in the form of derivatives was worthless, they would jump ship and bring the whole shaky edifice crashing down.

We also learn about the little known Bank for International Settlements, in Basil Switzerland, and the rules it has imposed on global markets such as the so-called, ‘mark to market rule.’ Finally we learn how North Dakota is an example for what all US states should do, start a state bank. North Dakota is solvent, well off in fact, while most US states are operating in the red. We could set up state banks in a matter of several months, and save enough on interest to bring all US states back into solvency. Ellen Hodgson Brown blogs about the global economic collapse at webofdebt.com. Her articles on global finance and how to repair America’s banking system can also be found at www.globalresearch.ca.


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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com

Source: talknationradio.com
Aired: 4/2/09 12:10 AM

Part 1: Ellen Brown — Escaping the Global Web of Debt

Part 1: Ellen Hodgson Brown discusses, Web of Debt, her book about the US Federal Reserve, the so called ‘Money Trust’, and global banking. What are derivatives? What went wrong with the global banking industry and how quickly can it be fixed? Ellen Brown’s 2007 book, Web of Debt, outlined the state of global economic and banking systems, and explained that there simply wasn’t enough money to bail out the banks from a massive derivatives default. The book was a warning that when investors finally realized that the “insurance” they purchased in the form of derivatives was worthless, they would jump ship and bring the whole shaky edifice crashing down.

We also learn about the little known Bank for International Settlements, in Basil Switzerland, and the rules it has imposed on global markets such as the so-called, ‘mark to market rule.’ Finally we learn how North Dakota is an example for what all US states should do, start a state bank. North Dakota is solvent, well off in fact, while most US states are operating in the red. We could set up state banks in a matter of several months, and save enough on interest to bring all US states back into solvency. Ellen Hodgson Brown blogs about the global economic collapse at webofdebt.com. Her articles on global finance and how to repair America’s banking system can also be found at www.globalresearch.ca.


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Ellen Brown's website is: http://www.webofdebt.com

Source: talknationradio.com
Aired: 4/2/09 12:00 AM