Sunday, June 22, 2008

Money as Debt.

Gang,

If you really want to know why our economy is tanking, as the supply of loans and credit dries up, please watch this film.

This is such an important subject, I also recommend that you send this movie to a friend.

It's called: Money as Debt.

It goes into detail about our fiat monetary, fractional reserve banking system, and why we are now Trillions of dollars in the hole!

I do take issue with some of the proposed solutions presented here, such as the total banning of interest rates, or its total rejection of commodity based (gold and silver) solutions. And I am also leery of the idea that the currency of choice should be completely in the control of the government, instead of it being accepted or rejected in a free market, where educated individuals make the millions and billions of individual choices that determine what really is money.

However, it does a commendable job explaining why our economy really is based on a house of cards.

When you get done with this film, please visit the Mises Institute. The Austrian school of economics deals with the behaviors of real people, and advocates real monetary solutions.

And after that: please visit Wide Eye Cinema.

There is a lot of food for thought here. Take a minute, check it out, and hear the other side of the story. And as always:

BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT WHO OR WHAT YOU INVITE INTO YOUR HEAD.

Toku.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I fully agree with you the movie is great except the end! damn socialists!


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Kirigakure said...

Hahaha!

Exactly.

Even if you don't have massive government ownership of property and a command economy, suggesting that government can be left to its own devices, and that it can pick a currency system much better than the billions of people who make up the marketplace, is a foolish idea. Although, it would be more cost effective for the government (because it could print the money interest free) and is slightly better than what we have now, the potential for massive government spending is still there.

And that's the beauty of commodity based monetary systems: if the government is acting stupid, good money (gold and silver) quickly goes underground as people hoard it, and the creditors of the government would have every right to demand gold and silver in exchange for notes. It diffuses economic power amongst the people, instead of it being centralized at say, a federal reserve.

But yah, I think it does a good job explaining fractional reserve banking... in English!

Anonymous said...

Yah, in a way I can't honor the makers of this movie high enough because this movie was my initial eye-opener!

I also think it's slightly better so one could make a case for a policy of small steps towards regaining freedom. afterall they were taking it away in small steps one after another.

Agree with you but even if the marketplace would not be better than the government(which is absurd)I would still prefer it. I want to be in control not the government!!

But the sheep are so deluded that they would fear to be scammed by corporations who issue money. Which is kinda a valid point. But they conveniently forget that as empirically proven the government - whom they deluded as they are trust with the money issuing - are the biggest crooks of all.

YY