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| − | * [http://www.stwr.net/content/view/2579/198/ Money as Debt]: explains how the banking business got from its simple origins as a necessary and useful tool to the complex and somewhat iffy behemoth we are familiar with today. ''I am not at all sure that the conclusion "money=debt, and therefore if all debts were paid off, the economy would have no money" holds water; an elaborate understanding of the nuances of these two concepts is built up, but then all the nuances are ignored in this simple equivalence. One might similarly prove that 1=2 by multiplying both sides of the equation by zero... or it may have some validity. Further analysis needed. -{{woozle.init}}'' | + | * [http://www.stwr.net/content/view/2579/198/ Money as Debt]: explains how the banking business got from its simple origins as a necessary and useful tool to the complex and somewhat iffy behemoth we are familiar with today. ''I am not at all sure that the conclusion "money=debt, and therefore if all debts were paid off, the economy would have no money" holds water; an elaborate understanding of the nuances of these two concepts is built up, but then all the nuances are ignored in this simple equivalence. One might similarly prove that 1=2 by multiplying both sides of the equation by zero... or it may have some validity. Further analysis needed. However, the proposal to create a bartering system, as an emergency backup so that commerce may proceed even if the current banking system collapses, mirrors my own thinking. -{{woozle.init}}'' |
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| + | *** [http://moneyasdebt.net MoneyAsDebt.net] | ||
| + | *** [[googlevideo:-9050474362583451279|direct link to video]] | ||
Latest revision as of 01:51, 7 April 2008
Overview
Banking is a concept which is basic to modern civilization and which has become mind-bogglingly complex, for reasons which may be in need of re-examination, since the time of its original invention. At the very least, there needs to be a better documented understanding of the basic concepts as well as the current complexity and the reasons behind it.
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- Money as Debt: explains how the banking business got from its simple origins as a necessary and useful tool to the complex and somewhat iffy behemoth we are familiar with today. I am not at all sure that the conclusion "money=debt, and therefore if all debts were paid off, the economy would have no money" holds water; an elaborate understanding of the nuances of these two concepts is built up, but then all the nuances are ignored in this simple equivalence. One might similarly prove that 1=2 by multiplying both sides of the equation by zero... or it may have some validity. Further analysis needed. However, the proposal to create a bartering system, as an emergency backup so that commerce may proceed even if the current banking system collapses, mirrors my own thinking. -W.
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