The problem with raising interest rates is people will start losing their job/incomes. The system needs changed not tweaked, its been tweaked to death. Also, whomever controls the creation, allocation and distribution of money governs, they rule government and can control the polity. The Fed is owned by the big…

Well I had a hard time finding you but finally got Medium to recognize you. I thought perhaps the algorythms had buried you. BTW, I recall you on the Green list when Manley was running back when. As I said I have been enjoying your excellent articles and agree with…

Stuart, you have correctly identified capitalism as the problem and it is their money system that needs to change, eliminating money will only cause depression, as Jackson found out. Capitalism is the 'private control of money' and the banks issue it as a debt for profit when they make loans…

Jared, I think Democracy is humanity's natural state, civilization is not. Nature certainly models democracy beautifully. Only when the money was publicly issued debt-free did anything approximating democracy occur. As long as money is issued by privately owned institutions as debt for profit there can be no democracy. The tribal…

The fatal blind-spot that nearly all political thinkers, be they left, center or right, have when it comes to economics is their lack of knowledge of money and monetary history. They all assume that banks lend savers' deposits to borrowers, when in fact this never happens. The banks not only…