Podcasts about alternative currencies

www.beyondmoney.net The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2024 edition) by Thomas H. Greco, Jr.  Chapter Thirteen: Beyond Political Money: Good Intentions Are Not Sufficient Two Currents of Alternative Exchange The Tucson Experience More Recent Experiments in Mutual Credit Clearing Local Currencies A Better Currency Model Why Exchange Alternatives Have Failed to Thrive Case Studies Prospects for Future Success   

www.beyondmoney.net The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2024 edition) by Thomas H. Greco, Jr.  Chapter Fourteen: How Exchange Systems Succeed or Fail Architecture of the Currency Principle 1: Who Is Qualified to Issue Currency? Principle 2: On What Basis Should Currency Be Issued? Principle 3: How Much Currency May Be Issued? Principle 4: How to Determine the Period of validity? Implementation Strategies The Situational Context

Find us at www.crisisinvesting.com In this episode, Doug Casey addresses questions from paid subscribers of Crisis Investing and Phyle, a private membership group. The discussion spans a variety of topics including the potential fragmentation of the United States in light of economic pressures, the relevance of civil defense in modern times, and the dynamics of gold and silver markets. Doug also shares his opinions on geopolitical issues such as the China-Taiwan relationship and the impact on global markets. The episode delves into investment strategies, including the pros and cons of maintaining fiat currencies versus precious metals, and touches on the potential impact of AI on financial markets. Finally, listeners get insights into Doug's perspective on government overreach, climate policies, and his hypothetical choice of living in a fictional universe. 00:00 Introduction and Welcome 00:11 The Future of the US Amid Hyperinflation 02:48 Civil Defense and Modern Threats 05:05 Gold-Silver Ratio and Market Dynamics 11:38 Retirement and Career Prospects 13:33 Potential Conflicts and Market Impacts 15:28 Fiat Currencies vs. Precious Metals 18:58 Government Actions and Economic Speculations 23:26 Gold Investment Strategies 25:25 Ignoring the Brazilian Stock Market 27:31 US Dollar Denominated Instruments and Currency Risks 28:55 Trump's Unpredictable Policies 30:21 China, Tariffs, and the BRICS 33:56 Gold, Silver, and the Casey Free Ride 36:55 Living in a Book: Ideal Characters 39:39 Thoughts on Martin Armstrong and Hong Kong's Success 42:24 Crypto vs. Gold as Alternative Currencies 45:35 Global Emissions Taxes and Climate Communism 50:39 Final Thoughts and Upcoming Guest

For today's episode, host Josh Sidman is joined by Dr. Will Ruddick.Dr. Ruddick is a development economist specializing in currency innovation. Before shifting his focus to economics and development, he conducted graduate research in high-energy physics as a collaboration member at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Since 2008, he has lived in East Africa, leading initiatives in environmental sustainability, food security, and economic development.His work centers on Community Inclusion Currencies (CICs) as a tool for poverty alleviation and sustainable development. Since 2010, he has pioneered CIC programs in Kenya, founding the Sarafu-Network and Bangla-Pesa, which provide alternative means of exchange to marginalized communities. He is also the founder of the Grassroots Economics Foundation, which supports local economies through innovative financial tools.Dr. Ruddick has worked with with organizations such as the World Food Program, the Red Cross, and the University of Cape Town's Environmental Economics Policy Research Unit. He is also an associate scholar with the University of Cumbria's Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability, where he contributes to research on alternative monetary systems and economic resilience. Dr. Ruddick earned his master's in high energy physics from the University of Colorado Boulder and his Ph.D. in Development Economics and International Development from the University of Cape Town.Together, we discussed Dr. Ruddick's introduction of alternative currencies to other countries, why he's hopeful about the elimination of USAID, and how his experience in Kenya shaped his future career.To check out more of our content, including our research and policy tools, visit our website: https://www.hgsss.org/

Doug Stuart chats with Aaron Day, a seasoned entrepreneur, investor, advisor, author, and political activist with nearly three decades of experience across various cutting-edge sectors. Aaron, who is a fellow at the Brownstone Institute and Chairman/CEO of the Daylight Freedom Foundation, shares his journey through the liberty movement and his experiences that shaped his critical stance on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).Aaron details three pivotal radicalizations in his life, starting with his exposure to the crony nature of venture capital, the devastating impact of government regulations on his healthcare company, and his involvement with the Free State Project that led him towards cryptocurrency and blockchain as tools for resisting centralized control.The discussion takes a deep dive into the current threat posed by CBDCs, how they could usher in a global social credit system, and limit financial competition. Aaron warns of the erosion of freedoms through increased financial surveillance and control, advocating for the use of alternative currencies like cryptocurrency, gold, and silver to maintain financial sovereignty. He emphasizes a DIY approach to financial independence, discussing practical steps in adopting cryptocurrencies and gold-backed debit cards.The episode also explores the problematic nature of venture capitalism, revealing its reliance on taxpayer money and political connections, which Aaron argues distorts true capitalist ideals. He scrutinizes the current financial regulatory system, highlighting how it restricts investment opportunities to the wealthy and protects established interests.Aaron also touches on the concept of a single global currency backed by energy credits, linking it to broader trends in financial control and environmental agendas. His analysis offers a sobering view on the future of financial systems and the critical need for vigilance and noncompliance.Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com ★ Support this podcast ★

www.beyondmoney.net The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2024 edition) by Thomas H. Greco, Jr.  Chapter Nine: The Evolution of Money - From Commodity Money to Credit Money and Beyond What We Don't Know Is Hurting Us Economic Exchange and Interpersonal Distance Kinds of Economic Interaction What is Money? “The Ladder of Economic Civilization” The First Evolutionary Step—Barter to Commodity Money Commodity Money Symbolic Money The Second Evolutionary Step—From Commodity Money to Credit Money Redeemability Abandoned Checks and Checkable Deposits Displace the Use of Banknotes Gold Versus Credit Money—A Comparison How Credit Money Malfunctions  

Alasdair Macleod discusses the potential collapse of the U.S. dollar and the critical role of gold in protecting wealth. Macleod explains how budget deficits and stagnant economies drive the need for tangible assets like gold. He highlights the risks associated with a bullish view on the economy, stocks, and bonds, and emphasizes the importance of gold as a hedge against credit risk. #goldprice #gold #stocks ------------ Thank you to our #sponsor MONEY METALS. Make sure to pay them a visit: https://bit.ly/BUYGoldSilver ------------ Guest: Alasdair Macleod, Head of Research Company: Goldmoney Recording date: June 25th, 2024 Substack: https://alasdairmacleod.substack.com/ ---------------------

www.beyondmoney.net The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2024 edition) by Thomas H. Greco, Jr.  Chapter Eight: The Separation of Money and State  The Separation of Church and State The Separation of Money and State—A Comparison The Disestablishment of the “Monetary Religion” Two Meanings of “Dollar” Delinking from the Dollar as a Payment Medium Delinking from the Dollar as a Measure of Value Stable Value Reckoning Toward Freedom of Exchange  

www.beyondmoney.net The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2024 edition) by Thomas H. Greco, Jr.  Chapter Seven: The Nature, Cause, and Consequences of Inflation  What is Inflation?  Who Has the Power to Inflate? Improper Basis of Issue by Banks Is Inflationary Government Deficits and Inflation The German Hyperinflation—A Classic Case How the Inflation Was Ended Constraints upon Debasement of the Money The Consequences of Dollar Inflation Responding to Inflation Ralph Borsodi's Prescriptions

www.beyondmoney.net The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2024 edition) by Thomas H. Greco, Jr.  Chapter Five: The New World Order  Endless Spending in Support of Wars  The Power Behind the Central Banks  A Merging of Interests  Wars, Internal and External  Money Power, the Key Element in the New World Order  Erosion of National Sovereignty  Narrated by Ken Richings

www.beyondmoney.net The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2024 edition) by Thomas H. Greco, Jr.  Chapter Four: Central Banking and the Rise of the Money Power  Central Banking, an Unholy Alliance Central Banking in the United States The First Bank of the United States How the Globalist Bankers Came to Rule the World Andrew Jackson and the “Bank War” The Free Banking Era Central Banking Spreads around the World    

Happy New Year.  It feels to me as if this year, the journey is going to be one of continual change and of challenge - that 2024 will be the year when it is impossible for anyone to pretend that the life we knew, the life we grew up believing would go on indefinitely - is going to continue. The old order is dying, but if we're to absolute collapse on a global scale (because clearly it's happening locally all over the world, usually pushed by the governments of people who are statistically most likely to be listening to this podcast) -but if we're going to avert absolute breakdown everywhere, then we need to dismantle the super-organism of the markets. Markets, globalisation, the entire neo-liberal model of free trade that was neither free nor liberal, nor particularly new... these are the common thread that perpetuates the world we know. Yes, we have to change our political systems, our power generation, our food systems..... all of these are core, but it's the markets and our concepts of value and money - the core of capitalism that keep the whole show on the road. One way or another, they are going - either there's a crash and nothing... or we succeed in managing a degrowth curve to a much simpler system that is not just less extractive, it's regenerative - it repairs some of the desperate harm we've done in recent times. So I want this podcast really to begin to look at how we could shape this downward slope - to play with ideas that could take use forward into something different - to begin to build narratives, stories, mythologies, collective heroic journeys of how we as a culture could affect the change that we need. Yes, the super-organism feels as if it has a life of its own, but it is composed of individuals and if we all change our behaviour, our expectations, our understanding of what's good and what isn't - then it will change. I still believe this is possible and I'm definitely working towards this. As is our guest this week. Diana Finch has worked in senior leadership roles in a variety of socially and environmentally focused non-profit organisations since 2001. Through this work, she became convinced that our economic system is the root cause behind the environmental and social challenges the non-profit sector is trying to address. She started to become interested in the field of new economics, and was thrilled to join the Bristol Pound team as Managing Director in 2018. She continued to be a director until the organisation was wound up in 2023. The experience helped her develop an understanding of the problems with our existing economic system, creating a determination to share what she has learned by writing a book called 'Value Beyond Money: an exploration of the Bristol Pound and the building blocks for an alternative economic system' The book is not out until September, but it I was privileged to read it early and was so struck by Diana's capacity to lay out clearly the various different ways we have begun to see money and the alternative systems that people are trying - the Bristol Pound was an astonishing endeavour and the story of how it came about and why it ended are remarkable in and of itself. But it's the ideas that come after - why did it not work and what could we do now - what could help us shift from exactly where we are, to where we need to be - these are the solid gold. We did talk for a long time. If necessary, we'll split this into two bits. I'm not sure if we're going to need to, so... we'll see.   In the meantime, enjoy the ideas of how we could be different - and then if you know of anyone who could fund this, please do let us know. PreOrder Diana's book https://crowdbound.org/product/value-beyond-money/The Bristol Pound legacy homepage https://www.bristolpoundlegacy.info/Holochain https://www.holochain.org/Art Brock Metacurrency https://www.artbrock.com/metacurrency/resourcesBradford Citizen Coin https://bradford.citizencoin.uk/Mark Fisher Ghosts of my Life https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ghosts-of-my-life-writings-on-depression-hauntology-and-lost-futures-mark-fisher/517207?ean=9781780992266Mark Fisher Capitalis Realism - Is there No Alternative https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/capitalist-realism-new-edition-is-there-no-alternative-mark-fisher/7313424?ean=9781803414300Confessions of an Economic Hitman Short Animated Version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYtb5zatgMgNew Economics Foundation https://neweconomics.org/Positive Money https://positivemoney.org/Reference booksLess is More: How Degrowth can save the world by Jason Hickel https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/less-is-more-how-degrowth-will-save-the-world-jason-hickel/364774Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think like a 21st Century Economist https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/doughnut-economics-seven-ways-to-think-like-a-21st-century-economist-kate-raworth/

The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (Chelsea Green 2009) remains as relevant and timely today as it was when first published. Unfortunately, bound copies have been out of print for the past several years, but the Kindle edition can still be downloaded from Amazon and there is an active market for used copies. Having recently had the rights reverted to me by my publisher, I have been considering republishing a revised and expanded edition of the book in serial form on my website. I will add some material that relates to recent developments like Bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrencies and smart contracts that will elaborate and expand upon what I've said in my previously published articles, Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the end of money as we've known it (2022) (https://beyondmoney.net/bitcoin-blockchain-and-the-end-of-money-as-weve-known-it/), and Bitcoin, Blockchain Technology, and Crypto-Currency (2016) (https://beyondmoney.net/2016/04/25/bitcoin-blockchain-technology-and-crypto-currency/). I will make it a priority to complete the series in less than a year. To be alerted as new material is posted you can follow me at my website https://beyondmoney.net  

Join hosts, Ethann Fox and Micheila Sheldan for another episode of the Awake and Empowered Podcast to explore cutting edge advancements, channeled transmissions and practical solutions to peacefully navigate an incredible age of awakening.  Pioneering voices in the movement to higher consciousness, Ethann and Micheila perfectly balance masculine and feminine energies to share wisdom and insights through higher dimensional access. You will walk away feeling vibrationally uplifted, inspired and excited to contribute to this incredible period of vibrational acceleration on planet Earth. In this episode, Micheila and Ethann discuss how they walk between the 3rd, 4th, and 5th dimensions in day to day life. Some of the topics include The Split of Timelines, The Dual Earth Theory, The Economic Climate and Alternative Currencies, Inflation, The Great Flood and how it will manifest in the current world, Pluto in Capricorn and Aquarius and its various manifestations, and Prepping to ride out the period of turbulence. About Ethann FoxEthann Fox is a spiritual teacher who assists lightworkers to uncover and live their life missions through his unique ability to remove karmic density and raise consciousness. As the founder of the Flower Of Life Institute, he oversees the vision and direction of global initiatives such as the AAE Expo, Seed Of Life School, AAE Magazine, and AAE tv, for which he is also the host. As a serial entrepreneur, Ethann has focused much of his career in business, finance, branding, and marketing, while also becoming an accomplished astrologer and numerologist of 29 years. Ethann now uses his expertise, to assist Lightworkers to develop their spiritual gifts, build world class brands, and create opportunities to reach aglobal audience.www.ethannfox.comAbout Micheila Sheldan Micheila Sheldan is an intuitive channel, Executive Director of the Flower of Life Institute and Marketing Director of the Awake and Empowered Expo. During a struggle to overcome chronic pain, Micheila experienced a shift of awakening, discovering her intuitive gifts and launching a journey to better understand her connection to the spirit world. In the course of her healing process, she left behind her role as a marketing consultant and soccer mom to step fully onto her soul's path as an intuitive channel. Micheila has the ability to channel a variety of multi-dimensional, extraterrestrial and angelic beings to answer questions about our history, current challenges and where we are headed in the future. She joins Ethann each month on Awake and Empowered TV to bring universal channeled messages to the listening audience. Through her transformational experience, Micheila has come to understand that her channeled messages are vibrational in nature, energetically uplifting and healing those who hear them and allowing Lightworkers to firmly step onto their soul's path and serve as a human conduit for healing energies. By tuning in each week, listeners will gain inspiration and tools to maintain and raise their vibration, as well as heal and open their energy field, by directly connecting with the consciousness of multi-dimensional beings who are here to support our evolution. she has experienced astoundingly accurate results. She often receives visions of significant past life experiences and describe how they are impacting a client's present journey. http://www.micheilasheldan.com Epitiaum Book and Inner Circle Community: https://micheilasheldan.com/?q=communityInner Circle Courses: https://micheilasheldan.com/?q=content/lightworker-inner-circle-program Monthly Pogram: https://micheilasheldan.com/?q=lightworker-inner-circle-monthly-programWorkshops: https://micheilasheldan.com/?q=workshops Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/micheilasheldan.channelingCredits:Intro video OM vocals by Reema Datta: https://reemadatta.comMusic: htt

Some precious metals dealers have seen a recent uptick in people interested in alternative currencies as inflation has risen.

I've discussed the importance of finding a niche audience and serving that audience with your films and content in my book Rise of the Filmtrepreneur. Today on the show a filmmaker has done just that. We have Australian filmmaker and Filmtrepreneur, Torsten Hoffmann. His niche audience is people interested in crypto, blockchain, and NFTs.Torsten's interest in cryptocurrencies dates back to a paper on Alternative Currencies he wrote while doing his MBA.By 2013, Bitcoin piqued his interest and soon after materialized into his 2015 directorial debut documentary, Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It. The documentary is a concise and informative crash course about Money and Crypto Currencies.The success of his first film documentary slanged Torsten into high-profile speaking engagements at MIPTV & MIPCOM, AIDC, and Medientage, to speak on blockchain-related trends.Last year, he produced and directed a subsequent documentary, Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchains and the Future of the Internet.Basically, he revisits Bitcoin and sets out to explore the evolution of the blockchain industry and its new promise. It asks the fundamental question; Can this technology, designed to operate independent of trust and within a decentralized network, really provide a robust alternative to the Internet as we know it?This film has since gone on to be one of the most consumed pieces of content in his niche. From the way, he marketed the film to the title Torsten used the Filmtrepreneur Method in every aspect of making the film.He has also launched numerous entrepreneurial ventures to support independent content creators with his passion for media and technology. If it's one person who can break down the sometimes intimidating ideas of blockchain, Hoffmann is the man. We also do a deep dive in NFTs as well. So, enjoy this unofficial third-part episode on NFT with Torsten Hoffmann.

Viviana Siless, CTO & co-founder, Quipu Market explores the history of alternative currencies and ways to increase liquidity. She also analyzes challenges and factors to keep in mind for designing digital alternative currencies.

In this episode, Monetary Metals' CEO Keith Weiner interviews President of United Precious Metals Association (UPMA) Larry Hilton. Larry was instrumental in passing various legal tender laws across the country. Together with UPMA, he is working on getting sound money to become a viable and profitable alternative to continuously debased fiat money.

Prepare Today SAVE 150 DOLLARS on your Three-Month Food Kits. http://preparewithx22.com   Learn How To Trade The Markets The Same Way I Did: http://www.tradegeniusacademy.com Use Promo Code "memorial" for 40% OFF non bundled items Today's Guest: Bob Kudla Bob is the created and owner of Trade Genius Academy.  Bob begins the conversation talking about the high fuel prices, the fuel prices are rising and the plan to bring us into the green new deal will fail. [JB] is using the strategic petroleum reserves because they need to get rid of fossil fuels, but people see the truth, they see the agenda. The alternative currencies are going to make a move and this will counter their fiat system.

In Episode 139, learn what to trade when paper money's only good for toilet paper… but TP is more valuable (softer you know).  Also we imagine a market reminiscent of Mad Max.  Please support our sponsors EMP Shield, Numanna Foods, Backwoods Home Magazine, CATI Armor, Jared Savik - Montana Realtor, and Minutemen Coffee, and Lizzy McDaniel a Tennessee realtor.

The dollar is worth about one-twenty-sixth of its value a century ago, and loose fiscal and monetary policies portend a deepening of the trend. This podcast (8:03) looks at the few currencies that have held up well to the dollar over a decade or more, reflecting underlying monetary and fiscal discipline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week the Glint team is joined by the financial columnist with Money Week and the Guardian, Dominic Frisby, author of “Bitcoin, the future of money”. Dominic presents the case for Bitcoin and its perceived rivalry with gold, in a world where purchasing power has been undermined by inadequate national currencies. Jason stands firmly in gold's corner, but is there an outright winner?

Beyond the Matrix with Patricia Cori, a discussion with Tom Greco, originally aired Oct. 7, 2020 (during Covid-lockdowns):  "We all know the global economic situation is on the brink of collapse. It is an unsustainable system, one that is barely standing - whether it is deliberately being taken down, or whether it is simply crashing with resounding finality. As governments rush to shore it up, we are currently, as my guest, economist Thomas Greco declared in this probing interview, in an inflationary economy AND a depression, brought about also by the "health situation" that has all but shut down societies worldwide. What will replace the dying economic matrix? Can we really create sustainable local, self-governing communities with our own people-based economies? Fascinating conversation...There's much to be learned here - so do your best to tune in to the end! Thomas H. Greco, Jr. is an educator, author, and consultant dedicated to economic equity, social justice, and community empowerment. He specializes in the design and implementation of private and community currencies and mutual credit clearing networks with a vision to creating sustainable local communities and healthy societal economies. Renowned International author, Patricia shares information on everything from health and well-being to philosophy, and current events, with an eye to informing and empowering her audience with motivational messages for individual and planetary healing, well-being, and success. Format is stream of consciousness directly, and also includes interviews with other new thought, alternative thinkers."

Are we also going to be a cashless society only, using digital currency that will all be tracked from all integrated banks to every person throughout NZ/Globally? Phil opens up saying that had ‘we’ had the courage we would have had a reset back in 2008 when New York’s Wall St and City of London ‘Ponzi schemes’  started to fall apart - but the Federal Reserve cleverly manifested trillions of dollars to bail out the bankers instead of the ordinary people who needed it. Like 14 trillion dollars of liquidity kept them afloat. Which Phil states was the absolute wrong thing to do - we needed to have let them fail - clean up their messes and then given them strict new rules in which to operate under and to state that ‘you cannot continue to hang out pieces of paper and expect other people to buy them. That was the first mistake. The 2nd mistake was thinking that the problem was solved. Because with all this financial liquidity injected into the market - a lot of Governments and central Banks thought ok -  that is a good job done and everyone went back to business as usual. However, it basically sent all the ‘problem gamblers back into the casino - with a new bankroll. Now Phil says, we have got the same set of problems - overvalued asset markets - and too many promises to pay - on debts that can never be repaid. Which essentially has set up so many economies around the world to basically fall over at the slightest whiff on any headwind - and now we are in this headwind. COVID. Like building up climate-related problems, COVID, plus countries in unrest and civil disorder in so many other countries that the financial system was not ready for this because it was already ‘running pretty much on fumes.’  So we are up against the same sort of reckoning of 2008 - but this time we do not have the luxury of having to pump limitless amounts of credit into these markets to get them to inflate again. So what are we going to do? Phil says that there are a good number of players who are saying let’s get back to work and open up our economies etc   - get the money machines flowing and just leverage more things - sell more things and pretend this never happened (sounds familiar?)  All Phil can say to this - is good luck with that. Because the reality is that people especially now during COVID are reflecting on the present situation and recognise that this is totally unsustainable and realise that we can not just keep on plundering resources and use the oceans and atmosphere for sinks for all of our waste products and not expect it to catch up with us. That there is now no going back - there is now a growing number of people who know that what we have been doing has to change - that we have passed through a one-way gate. Does this reset mean we go cashless? Cashless Digital Countries - who are going to go first? Sweden, Australia, Norway or Denmark?  Phil says that NZ is very close as we are a small country with a very well integrated banking system and that we have been practicing for some while having the first EFTpos card system on the planet - back in the 1990s we put this in place, and it was not that costly and it did not take very long to have it all mesh together with all banks using one EFTPOS machine all connected. So NZ was the global guinea pig (like so many other technical test trials). Phil states that NZ is seen as being successful having a nationwide system that can essentially do away with cash using credit and Eftpos cards. Phil then mentions that the New Zealand Reserve Bank a year ago sent out a survey form to ask what New Zealanders thought about cash. With these questions: Do you use cash? How often do you use it? Do you wish you used it more or less? He says they asked a number of good questions. And what the NZ Reserve Bank concluded was that getting rid of cash would be a bad idea. But, if the big boys overseas said DO IT. The Reserve Bank would do as they are told?  Listen around 10 minutes in: Phil says that though we may have in many ways a cashless society - and though the Reserve Bank is wanting it - they will watch the situation and see how it all unfolds. Phil says that cash is the only form of money in our broader economy that is not created as private bank interest bearing debt. This is a larger thing that people tend to leave out of the conversation. That right now 98 and a half percent of the money that is circulating and changing hands and is in transactions every day in NZ was originally created out of thin air by a commercial trading bank as an interest’s bearing debt. He says that the cash is kind of interesting because it is the only money that does not have that pedigree. It is the only money that did not come into existence through that original sin … of a mortgage or some other sort of bank loan. The reason this is important is because right now NZ’s private debt to GDP ratio is getting close to 200% - which means that the amount of money that is owed to banks and financial institutions is about double the turnover of our entire economy in a single year. Phil says most of NZ’s money comes into existence when people take out mortgages. (Note:  I did not want to interrupt Phil - but this Labour Government and the previous National Government have been accepting around 80,000 new immigrants into NZ per year, and I wanted to ask - is this allowing the NZ Government to ride high on the influx of the many millions of dollars flowing into the country as a result of these new residents, bringing all their cash into our economy?   Phil talks about the housing bubble as this is where most New Zealanders invest their money, and he asks - what will be the trigger when it pops? Because, he says - it’s on its way … Hear about the stated policy of NZ’s Reserve Bank via ‘quantitative easing.’ They are able to print money ‘by offering it to trading banks’ as a backstop for all the lending that they want to do. The banks are very happy to do this - for by giving out loans this is how they make a profit - the interest on loans is the banks' income source (Note the 4 overseas major banks in NZ made over $10 billion in profits in 2018/19)   So naturally, the top strata of the NZ Banks (Australian owned) want to keep this game going as long as they can. Also mentioned in this interview Learn that the Govt is acting as a hand brake on the NZ Economy. Why do we not learn who the overseas Bankers are, that gives the NZ Govt loans?  What bank? What are the terms? That the further you follow the money it has to go higher up the pyramid. Who are the people at the top?  There have to be families that benefit from all this money ‘going uphill.’ Who are they? Why the muteness? That NZ debt is continuing to increase. Why the silence from ordinary MPs about this? Because each Party will not allow an MP to break ranks and ask that type of question. The Parties control (muzzle) their members - this is why Parties and NZ politics are increasingly seen to be opaque, stagnant, and moribund.  That the NZ Government also does not invest its money where it would do the most good. Not at the grassroots. Listen to what he says - our government is not consciously putting its money into areas where the community most needs it. Digital exploitation is now rife on a planet that has already been exploited for its natural resources.   Phil says that we have gone into overshoot in terms of what we are doing to the environment - especially freshwater and topsoil, and pollution in general. That now the only frontiers able to be exploited are the ‘virtual ones’ by taking advantage of this digital space - the virtual world. This is where we also have to be alert. If you are not savvy with the latest technologies and monetary systems, get ‘professional’ advice.    Crypto Currencies and BlockChain technology  - a lot are virtual ponzi schemes and pump and dump scams are in this realm. BlockChain is a very useful tech - we just have clean out the abuses - so it can be used for the benefit of society  Can we prepare Locally and throughout NZ for a perturbation in the currency and cash realm?   If the Western world went suddenly cashless - would NZ follow? Steve says keep some cash handy all the same - enough to get you by for a number of days just in case a bank did go down. He says we are still in the Neoliberal lens and that there are bubbles that could collapse and affect us. New Zealanders invest and own houses as their investment portfolio - not in new business and enterprises - where overseas that are more entrepreneurial. Becoming Self-reliant and resilient.   It is very important for us to grow our own food where possible, especially organic because we know exactly what we are putting into our bodies. Plus, it is fresh and therefore our health is optimised and thus no visits to doctors Tools to sustain us in case of breakdown or emergencies.How do we keep money or ‘currencies’ working when cash becomes unavailable? Steve describes how a ‘Time Bank’ works to show how good and easy it is to implement. That a time bank is a ‘chit’  that has a number on it - that has a value of ‘one hour’ and you can trade these within your community if someone can mow lawns and another can cut someone's hair or paint a house and trades with repairing a machine or furniture - these chits can be traded. You can have a small computer run the whole local community and it can have up to a few thousand ‘locals’ engaged to work this way.  That you can download from the web programs like  ‘Community Weaver’ a dedicated  program - or Community Forge - or CES Community Exchange Solutions A very good example of a community that is working with a Time Banks is Project Lyttelton in the South Island of NZ. https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/margaret-jefferies-project-lyttleton-sustainable-community-building-christchurch  To obtain more information on making your neighbourhood and local community more self-reliant and resilient go to: https://livingeconomies.nz/  Links of interest: Sweden is the most cashless society today. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/07/27/fact-check-cashless-society-isnt-imminent-wouldnt-eliminate-cash/5415027002/  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q81d3cRK8SQ     4.12 into this short video of 12 minutes. https://popularresistance.org/the-wall-street-crash-and-the-great-depression/  Could there be against all expectations a ‘Global Debt Jubilee’ - where all sovereign debt is forgiven? I had that in my question list,  but did not get around to asking for comment on this :(.   Next Week’s Interview: To be announced. Once it is recorded and edited and readied we will advise. Thanking you, Tim

Interview with evolutionary ecologist Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris includes the following:Introduction to Dr. Sahtouris' work (0:58)How science can learn from nature (4:47)The evolution of species from competition to cooperation (5:53)Human transformation (7:40)The speed of the current evolutionary shift (9:09)Global Reboot (12:23)Building a better future (14:15)How an evolutionary shift begins (16:23)Strength in numbers (18:40)Ways to promote recycling (19:17)Feeding the world (20:35)Alternative Currencies and economies (21:48)Mobilizing Millions (26:40)Local vs Global Action? (27:24)Overcoming Fear of the Virus (28:30)Holistic View of the Pandemic (29:15)Vaccines (34:06)Nature-Based Ways to Manage an Epidemic (35:15)Sentient Plants (36:54)Restoring Man-Made Deserts (37:19)Eastern Approaches to Immune Strengthening (37:56)Nature Inspiration (39:17)Words from Rumi (41:22)

Have you ever been so broke that you ended up creating your own currency? It may sound like a crazy idea today, but during the Great Depression multiple communities actually created and circulated their own forms of local currency. And this wasn't a lark -- it was a matter of survival. Listen in to learn more about some of the precedents for the (world-famous) BenBucks. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

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Episode 4 – “Barter-Trade & Alternative Currencies” w/SNMTX In this episode we’re going to discuss transforming your business using barter and trade. We’re going to teach you about modern bartering and how it can transform and enhance the way you […]

Time Banks, Green Dollars, Savings Pools    The interview initially starts with latest topics of Universal basic income, Bitcoin and crypto currencies and that people are awakening to the fact that central bankers don’t have a clue as to solve this ongoing and deteriorating crisis. In NZ the situation today looks pretty good to the casual observer - listen to MSM and government sources and we are in a stable and robust moderately growing economy - everything is quite good, some of our major trading partners are experiencing some head winds but … ‘she’ll be right.’   If you rule out the dairy shock of the last 14 months and take out the Auckland property bubble but don’t worry about those little wobbles, we as a country are doing just fine! What this means that we in NZ are going to be following most of the rest of the world into 'debt deflation' which over the coming years is going to take hold with a greater severity. We have been a lucky country and managed to come through the recent (GFC) Global Financial Crash of 2008 along with Australia and NZ being almost alone in the world because we had many trade ties to China and we did not get hammered like other countries  - Australian minerals and NZ dairy were doing very well. China being the last big bubble to implode and it looks like it is going to do so now as well - this is big news, for if China starts to deflate, the rest of the world has nowhere to go … who is going to prop up all the bubbles and asset prices?  It appears that there is soon going to be a rush to get out of all the equities markets. As this has all been built on debt finance and short sighted policies.  Most small cities in NZ can do a certain amount of business locally, so that what is produced locally and the money that changes hands, gets recycled through the commercial areas of that town and district. however when it comes to big ticket items, money and goods or materials they may come from a larger more distant source, the money that goes around in a smaller isolated town or city, has a tendency to quickly go back out of town, sometimes very rapidly, hence keeping the area less financial and liquid. If you have a local currency, like time banks this can cycle through the localised area continuously supporting local community and business, however if you have a national currency it comes and then leaves and if there is a head office overseas, the money actually leaves the country. For example the near on $5 billion in profit from the large Australian trading banks, and the 4.7 million NZ population, gives one cause to realise how much money leaves NZ for other countries. At present local and regional government are becoming interested in embracing forms of alternative currencies (listen to the interview for more) Covering the immediacy of putting in a Time Bank, you get the community engaged, working, and creating value and worth.   Time Banks are able to work in very well with voluntary agencies and there are a number of them in NZ and growing from strength to strength. Project Lyttlelton http://www.lyttelton.net.nz as a time bank example, has become the glue of the community that as they had been established prior to the Christchurch earthquake it was through their tightly associated team and connectivity, that they were able to mobilise within minutes of the earthquake, have people on the ground and assisting hugely with civil defence, police, ambulances and the fire department and council.  Phil also gives a narrative as to how a time bank can be set up. Once you set up with freely available software and you have your team of early adopters you can branch out. Plus, get some of your charitable and non profit organisations onboard early because you can also assist these NGO’s donating ‘numbers of hours’ to them, which means that you can assist them with additional help, because of ‘serial volunteers' - people who like to work and donate their time and effort to the community. These people love to work for community and they are just living their values. This way Time Banks can put their ‘accumulative time’ into a ‘community chest’ which can be called upon and used by various charities etc. But also in a simple situation of a hairdresser swapping hours for their lawns to be mowed or gardening for house painting. Tuition for baby sitting etc. That Christchurch City at present is looking at the possibility of a council backed regional currency - which is a very interesting concept. Margaret Jeffries is even talking about a UBI Universal Basic Income being included in this discussion. Software used is called Community Weaver by Time Banks USA   http://timebanks.org/get-started/community-weaver/ Also, Community Forge - Hamlets            http://communityforge.net/en/software Note that the whole of NSW in Australia are on a Community Forge system. Madison in Dane County is a time bank in Wisconsin USA and has over 2000 members  at http://danecountytimebank.org The founder of Time banks was Edgar S Cahn who was an invalid, yet he could still think and do simple tasks and he set out to create a time bank, because he did not like being seen as in-valid! https://www.bostonfed.org/commdev/c&b/2005/fall/nonmonetary.pdf   We also cover Professor Thomas Greco who is presently in Greece to educate and assist in creating alternative currencies as Greece’s economy has floundered. That the imposed austerity exacerbates the problem that it is claiming to fix, because the people at the lower socio economic spectrum are the ones who suffer the most because all their money is spent keeping themselves from going under. So austerity starves the economy of liquidity thus you restrict economic activity.  Time banks and ‘Green drachma’s’ can really pull the strings of community together and get an economy up and running very quickly and bring more stability and peace to the community.    thgreco@mindspring.com for more information. Phil says that it’s a good idea to have a back up and have a connection to a time banks or some other localised currency system - because you never know when you may need one.   http://www.le.org.nz   A very interesting interview, with one or two seconds of scratchy recording due to a chronic limitation in the use of copper wires in NZ’s telecom system.

Today's guest is Stephen Macaskill, CEO and Founder of Amagi Metals. We discuss Stephen's first entrepreneurial experience selling candy to owning his own precious metals business. Check out the show notes below, leave a comment and thanks for watching! Key Segments 2:00 - First Entrepreneurial Adventure - Busted! Selling Candy to the Kids 3:11 - Started Amagi Clothing 9:12 - Sold Amagi Clothing and started Amagi Metals 16:25 - Accepting Bitcoin as payment for precious metal 23:57 - Creating personal freedom by being an Entrepreneur Contact Stephen Macaskill at: twitter.com/orderofstuff stephenmacaskill.com/

Can you imagine being denied a bank account just because some bureaucrat disapproves of your job? It could happen to you!Launched in early 2013, "Operation Choke Point" is a joint effort by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the bank regulators to limit access to the bank payments system by various businesses. Initially targeted at small-dollar nonbank lenders, Choke Point has grown to cover a variety of legitimate businesses that just happen to be unpopular with DOJ.Since, in today’s economy, almost any economic activity depends on access to the payments system, allowing the DOJ to arbitrarily limit access represents an almost unprecedented abuse of power. Many targeted businesses and individuals are turning to cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and dogecoin in order to survive without access to the traditional banking system.What can be done about Operation Choke Point, who is being targeted, and what implications does this hold for the future of cryptocurrencies?This panel will be occurring at the annual South by Southwest - Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. You will need to be a registered participant of the conference to attend. However, all Cato supporters are invited to follow along on Twitter using #CatoCrypto. We will also be posting a video on the Cato website after the conference is over. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A presentation on the prospects of Bitcoin and the peaceful nature of online anonymous markets by journalist and European Students For Liberty Program Manager Yaël Ossowski. Hosted in Vienna, Austria by the Austrian-Libertarian Movement. Dec. 9, 2013 https://www.facebook.com/AustrianLibertarianMovement http://yael.ca

Topic for the show:  Press Freedom, Alternative currencies under attack, and Egypt now completely screwed up.  The police state and much more.

Today we focus on using local currencies and economies to opt out of Wall Street and build resilient and sustainable communities. Alternative currencies are founded on principles that value all types of work, reciprocity, interconnection and building community. Our guests are Jeff Dicken of Baltimore Green Currency, Paul Glover who started Ithaca Hours and Edgar Cahn, author of “No More Throw Away People.” For more information, visit ClearingtheFOGRadio.org.

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Imagine hundreds of earth conscious communities networked across our nation by goodwill (and fiber optics) being embedded in both the rural sector and urban environments, that have their own currency, of both Green Dollars and Time Banks.These all linked by localised computer networks (but also without computers) that if you are short of NZ hard currency you can still earn, trade and be innovative business people and entrepreneurs. Where volunteers actually get paid, and there is no lack or want.Starting from a background in organic gardens, permaculture, and community projects over the past 25 years, Laurence has sought key levers for change.In the early to mid 90’s he founded the Environmental Business Network drawing more than 500 companies into its membership under his leadership, (the network later became the Sustainable Business Network). In this time he worked with people like Anita Roddick of The Body Shop and Dr Karl Hendrik Robert founder of The Natural Step. Advocating community solutions led to Transition Towns and Living Economies -as movements. In conjunction with AnewNZ he runs 'The Bank of Real Solutions' a clearing house of community success stories which runs the by-line, ‘Out-thinking the problems because we can.’He believes our barriers to a sustainable future are not from a lack of ability but from systemic corruption and cowardice, but most of all – a lack of imagination.He lives in Golden Bay with his wife and 3 daughters and is enthusiastically involved with several community projectsIn the age of globalisation, community is the anecdote ... and 'possibility is the new currency'. Want to belong and feel part of a greater, more coherent organism - where the synergy of people is based on working and playing towards the benefit of the whole? Then in the worlds of Bruce Lipton "work towards shaping and creating community".Transition Towns: www.tt.org.nzLiving Economies: www..le.org.nzAnewNZ: www.anewnz.org.nzThe Bank of Real Solutions: www.realsolutions.org.nz