Dear @SachaBaronCohen, I am a dogged defender of truth, an evolutionary behavioural scientist, and I happen to be Jewish. As such, Holocaust deniers and evolution deniers are not my favourite folks in the world. And yet, I support their right to spew their grotesque if not
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Thank you, @ADL, for your International Leadership Award. My message: if we want to stop hate, we have to regulate Facebook and social media – the greatest propaganda machine in history. My full speech here: https://bit.ly/2rim7Ja
Sacha Baron Cohen’s Keynote Address at ADL’s 2019 Never Is Now Summit on Anti-Semitism and Hate
Actor, Screenwriter & Director Sacha Baron Cohen’s keynote address at ADL’s 2019 Never Is Now Summit on Anti-Semitism and Hate.
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https://twitter.com/wiki_ballot/status/1198085326142607360
Globalisation Un-Entangled. (A FOUND POEM, CIPHER OF GLOBALISM ) https://t.co/n3dHpdp1En via @PMotels
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An Excremental Eschatology https://t.co/zwBSGaAkrX via @wordpressdotcom
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WHo Owns the World. Nepotism and failing virtue. There Is No Alternative (TINA) Yeah Right! https://t.co/VAFvI3t2JK via @PMotels
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Social Conditioning and Conventional Pieties. #Conspiracy #Hypothesis #Theory #Crime #StateCrimesAgainstDemocracy #SCADS Conspiracy of Context! https://t.co/dJC5nDTuDA via @PMotels
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Who ate all the pieties.or ´Now is not a time for soundbites´ https://t.co/K3MW6y6yWk via @PMotels
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Timonism, The Calvinist strain in Neo Liberal Misanthropy. Zionism, The Money Power Usury and The Petro Dollar. Fall of the Roman Empire 2.0. #OccupyTheEuropeanSpring https://t.co/YPtTd9Fj3x via @PMotels
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Authentic Discourses on Decisions to Act. https://t.co/dbScdvBipa via @PMotels
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I agree – BoJo is preparing to “bottle it”. But why on earth does anyone believe that getting Boris and some of the ERG to vote for May’s deal would be sufficient? Let’s not forget that even if all Tories voted for May (which they obviously won’t) they do not have a majority. https://t.co/ovwyKNIDiy
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A new referendum on #Brexit would produce a clear majority for Britain remaining in the EU, regardless of how the votes were counted or the questions were asked, says @kaletsky https://t.co/QOjz1zhapL
— Project Syndicate (@ProSyn) December 28, 2018
The Pie-in-the-Sky UBI
The first experiment of this nature was Mincome in Canada in the seventies. It was a great success. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome
With respect to financing UBI the point is that Money can be distributive at the point of creation and in the case of UBI should be.
We can learn a lot from the Swiss referendum on Citizens Income as discussed here.
´However, the nearly universal misunderstanding of money is a major obstacle. For too long we’ve allowed a small coterie of bankers and “court economists” to hold the secrets and “tutor” us. So, it’s time for total openness.
First, regarding the claim that the Swiss proposal would’ve been too costly, what’s entirely omitted from the discussion is that the proposal (and similar proposals elsewhere) appear to call for re-distribution of existing money—taking money from certain sectors through taxation and re-allocating it to the people at-large.
The implication is that the money supply is basically static and that re-distributing limited funds would require tough budget decisions—sparking tax hikes and associated spending increases in several areas; hence the claim “costs too much.”
But a successful basic income plan can and must be based on the creation of new money, or “distributism,” not on reshuffling existing money, which is “re-distributism.” That’s the “state secret” that no one wants to touch.´´http://leconomistamascherato.blogspot.se/2016/07/basic-income-lets-name-real-problems.html
I had a dialogue with Clive Lord a Founder member of the Green Party of England and wales last year. The authors of this article could no much worse than re-visit their monetary Theory and Monetary History.
https://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2016/08/neo-liberalism-billy-no-mates-or-just.html
”The value of goods,
expressed in money, is called “prices,” while the value of money, expressed in goods, is
called “value.” p.49 (Commercial Capitalism) Quiqqley shows how Bankers make the distinction and real power lays in the Value of money and not the prices of goods.
on how debt and credit creation effects aggregate demand is summed up in this argument. In my poem this is the not even wrong part.
”A counterfeit Nobel laureate, theres an irony.
Denies that in money there can be a place that gertrude stein called there, home once but no longer there , there in Oakland. A precursor to some sub prime heritage.
A speaker of truth to power could follow Pauli ´Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es is nicht einmal falsh!
”Not even wrong, not even there.
All counterfeit, yet to counterfeit the counterfeit? a crime.
What of the shepherd of this unruly nothing,
where will they pen and fence this pack of wolves.
Will they dress this pack of cards in sheep’s clothing.
Limit the herd a need for Golden standards.
Prudence of sound Money and even sounder usury.
Fix the price and patronise those who will honour the thievery. A mechanism to harmonise silent ballot boxes.
A gentlemen from belgium would complement his single currency. Unruled and unruly sets a course for austerity on a continent many times at war. A fight of 11 rounds.
Spread like a cancer through the development of continents, enabling the killing called wars. That increase the debt and centralise the money power.
Quiggly shewed the tragedy, little hope it seemed,
blind faith in capitalisms harlot. That babylonian whore.
At first a mere money trick for ragged trousered philanthropy. With usury, take away whats not even yet been paid. Ruskin would see wealth as that which is valuable in the hands of the valiant. Real goods sustain and wealth succours. Usurious money is but an unmade claim and worse. No banker has earned that newly minted note that hangs discordant in the air, as apt to rob as to pay.
How obscure this obscurant cult of mammon.
What smoke screened hall of mirrors.
How obese and gluttonous the leviathan of usury.
Austerity for the likes of you and I.
More banqueting and evacuated vomit spews from the sceptred top table. Corrupt in patronage and jealousy of power. Overstuffed with greed and thirsty for more.”
https://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2016/02/usury-hells-fuel-and-mans-oppressor.html
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Brexit In Reverse?
Soros is yesterday’s, Man. Neo-Liberalism has been found out and Soros´s brand of Financialised Capitalism and Stae Monopoly manipulation of Markets has been Exposed. The People of Britain, as well as the people of Europe, remember the Golden Age of Social Democracy and even Democratic Socialism. Neo-Liberalism having failed to deliver on its promises and having undermined British Democracy and institutions will now be set aside, as will the EU. The Eu if it reforms and goes back on Track of Social Democracy may Survive and see the power vector restored from the people to the Executive and not this top down Elite, Managerial command and control Farce.
At the heart of this, and this is something Soros, Does or rather should understand its the Magic Money Tree. The EU, Britain and the Washington Consensus have all been suffering a debt deflation post the 2008 Collapse, Heterodox economic theorists like myself, Led by Hudson, Keen, Wray, Mitchell, Mosler, Murphy Werner, Dyson, Adair Turner and Even Mervyn King, have exposed the Neo-Liberal Pump and Dump scheme for what it is, A giant Ponzi Scheme, For these fraudulent Crimes alone, The Soros´s of this world should be serving Time at the Pleasure of The various States whose coffers they have hollowed out with the assistance of a generation or two of Weak Minded, Lemonade pocketed yet Champagne Tasted Politicians and Bureaucrats.
As well as being an Idea, Democracy is a process. The Process is informed by history and the Idea and the process is independent of Oligarchs such as Mr Soros. Now there are clear divisions in the Oligarchy, and I am glad to speculate that Soros´s faction is Losing. They have lost the Intellectual Arguments, even though they have tried to corrupt our academic Institutions, They Are losing the Political Arguments even though they have tried to buy the silence of the media Outlets, They are losing the Popular arguments, as Poverty levels and health outcomes have become too obvious and so obviously the fault of the “Elites”. So for all the blaming of victims, Spin and Hopeless Senile confirmation biases wrapped up in the shell of an Octagenarian has been, we still see that the old adage is holding true. As it always does, “all political careers end in failure”. Even covert ones and Mr Soros´s is no different. I for one celebrate and rejoice for Soros´s brand of extreme neoliberal fascism has no place in a Post-Scarcity Society with Ethical standards of Compassion caring love and respect. You have done enough damage, Mr Soros, enjoy a long and healthy retirement, but you are no longer needed or wanted. You are the Weakest Link, Good Bye.Read lessShow replies
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Trump’s Middle East Supporters
Trump’s position in The middle east is clearly tailored to US Petro Dollar hegemony. A Gas attack by Assad makes no sense what so ever, Trumps response makes sense only in the context of the Greater Israel solution advanced by Neo-Cons and Zionists for as long as the Sykes-Picot agreement.
The Syrian Proxy War is all about Gas Pipelines and Petro Dollar Hegemony coupled with a Colonial and Imperialist approach to Far Right Wing Israeli Apartheid Zionism.http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2017/04/why-trump-bombed-syria-gas-pipelines.html
http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2017/04/the-bortherhood-of-gas-ring-quatar-gas.html
http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2016/09/syria-cui-bono-incitatus-boris-johnson.html
One can do a lot worse than considering these words from Carol Quigley in Tragedy and Hope.
Quiggleys words.p.232 tragedy and Hope.
´´but criticism should have been directed rather at the hypocrisy and lack
of realism in the ideals of the wartime propaganda and at the lack of honesty of the chief negotiators in carrying on the pretense that these ideals were still in effect while they violated them daily, and necessarily violated them. The settlements were clearly made by secret negotiations, by the Great Powers exclusively, and by power politics. They had to be. No settlements could ever have been made on any other bases. The failure of the chief negotiators (at least the Anglo-Americans) to admit this is regrettable, but behind their
reluctance to admit it is the even more regrettable fact that the lack of political experience and political education of the American and English electorates made it dangerous for the negotiators to admit the facts of life in international political relationships.”
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How Much Europe Can Europe Tolerate?
The comments here are actually much more acute, than the article its self. The article is Ok and the comments curiously complete it. It is nice to see that this neo liberal propaganda sheet is not acting as an EU echo Chamber.
Karl Bilt says elsewhere on this site what is needed is more Europe and less Brussles, that is in short less Centralisation and exclusive commison competences and much, much, more Subsidiarity.
Curiously Gordon Brown this sites Executive editor, has gone on record regarding Scottish independence and the currency which the Newly independent scots would use. Mr Brown suggests a federated Bank of England with branches with money issuing and taxation raising powers in the devolved assemblies. A federated EURO and ECB seems like a workable ambition, with a complementary currency element along the lines of Bernard Loiterers Terra for the EURO in international trade and national and regional currencies within the individual EU states.
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Trade Truths for Trumpians and Brexiteers
This is a level of monetary Ignorance quite staggering considering the melt down of 2008. Savings have nothing at all to do with Capital formation in the modern financialised economy . Banks are originators of Credit, this Bank of England research paper explains it very well and a Click on this Professor Richard Werner Link will probably yield a little surprise for this view of political economy.http://www.monetary.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/money-creation-in-the-modern-economy.pdf
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1057521914001070
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The Case Against Cash
If governments were not so hung over on the Money they borrow from ´´Markets´at interest, the world would be a much better place.
A focus on Cash in an age of debt deflation seem par for the course for Mr Rogoff. Policy Makers should really look to the likes of Professor Steve Keen for some Evidence-based economics analysis.In such, an analysis the Huge cost of Government Borrowing over being the originator of money creation would reveal itself.https://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2016/08/tides-of-dollar-moon-poem.html -
Why Tax Cuts for the Rich Solve Nothing
Considering Tax without looking at Endogenous money creation by the financial sector is always going to end in a process of Circular reasoning with the circles becoming ever larger and more convoluted a sort of reversion to the mean of Ptolemaic epicycles of Debt.
Professor Richard Werner in this excellent exposition on the purpose of spending debt based money into the productive economy is an excellent starting point. https://vid.me/fEw7t . The Usury mistake remains but at least the taboo of what Prof Stiglitz calls “avaricious moguls, the greediest of whom include those who owe their fortunes to scummy activities, like gambling” will at least see some flesh placed on the bones.
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More Europe, Less Brussels
This is a wonderful visionary and reflective piece. Carl Bildt is to be congratulated in tackling the Aachen Mafia. These issues of Subsidiarity are most obvious in the Exclusive competencies of the Commission and its relationship to the ECB. Bernar Leitaer advised on , indeed all but designed the ERM, his early design was torn up in a rush for Political Expediency and much of the wisdom of Prof. Leitaer was thrown out along with with the Infant of promise, complementary currencies and subsidiary sovereignty for member States.
More Europe amd less Brussels a reversal of polartiy from the boundaries to the centre and not the other way around.
http://theconquestofdough.weebly.com/blog-progress-on-the-book-and-selected-blogs-of-yore
Meet The Fuggers.
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A European Economic Miracle?
A Loss of Intellectual Objectivity here from Simon, Most disappointing after the firey 2010 words of The Newly published Author of 13 Banks.
There is a very real need to fight ECB centralisation, the reference to Macron is wholly mystifying how can a greater centralised Authority possibly Help. Karl Bilt called for more Europe and less Brussels on these pages recently,
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/remaking-post-brexit-european-union-by-carl-bildt-2016-07
That means more subsidiarity and less centralisation and the Exclusive competence of the ECB and Commission is both anti democratic and very poor Political economy.
http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2017/03/a-fedearated-pound-striling-and.html
Yet another compromised elitist in denial I am afraid. Come on Simon, go back to school and rig up Lords King and Turner both of who understand Money creation.
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Containing the Trump Threat in Europe
It is hard to know where to start with a man so infected by Confirmation biases and a sense of his own self-importance. I always Thought the EU was its own Worse enemy, but to paraphrase the Great Ernest Bevin, Not whilst Verhofstad is alive it´s not.
The EU is a critical thinking free zone and Verhoftand is the chief evangelist of its Neo-Liberal Madness.His talk of Populist Governments reveals his deep distaste for and opposition against Social Democracy he is, in short, the Chief Idiot of the EU idiocracy.
Karl Bilt Said recently what is needed is more Europe and Less Brussels. I echo that and add More Europe and less Idiocracy, Less Verhoftad, more subsidiarity and an end of the technocratic Commission. Ideologues of Verhofstads Type talk of preserving the Post WW2 peace and claim credit for it whilst Baiting Mr Putin and Here Mr Trump, whilst promoting Middle East Conflict and assisting in fomenting the Fascist Coup in Ukraine. This Verhostad should be in Prison not contaminating these pages with his Sophistry and bile.http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2017/06/the-eu-idiocracy-does-eu-have.html
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Brexit In Reverse?
@John Ellis, Mr Ellis, Your condecension is wholly commensurate with the scale of your Arrogant Ignorance. Let me ask you this, What is Money. If you know the answer to that question try this one one as well. Is it wise to measure anything with a Variable Ruler?
FInanlly may I suggest that you are within a category ably described by John Ruskin in Unto this last Thus.“Pardon me. Men of business do indeed know how they themselves
made their money, or how, on occasion, they lost it. Playing a
the long-practised game, they are familiar with the chances of its
cards, and can rightly explain their losses and gains. But they
neither know who keeps the bank of the gambling-house nor what
other games may be played with the same cards, nor what other
losses and gains, far away among the dark streets, are
essentially, though invisibly, dependent on theirs in the lighted
rooms. They have learned a few, and only a few, of the laws of
mercantile economy; but not one of those of political economy.”And a little poem to help you along your Way Mr Ellis.
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Will Italy Cross the Illiberal Rubicon?
”Russia, for its part, would welcome that outcome, and has probably been doing everything it can to bring it about.” Intellectual money for old rope, yesterday’s men writing yesterdays memes.
Smug elites have learned nothing from The Brexit or Trump votes this article is not alone in its abject bankruptcy of listening to very clear messages that neo-liberalism is not working.”When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake. “Les révolutions qui arrivent dans les grands états ne sont point un effect du hasard, ni du caprice des peuples. Rien ne révolte les grands d’un royaume comme un Gouvernoment foible et dérangé. Pour la populace, ce n’est jamais par envie d’attaquer qu’elle se soulève, mais par impatience de souffrir.” These are the words of a great man, of a Minister of State, and a zealous assertor of Monarchy. They are applied to the system of favouritism which was adopted by Henry the Third of France, and to the dreadful consequences it produced. What he says of revolutions is equally true of all great disturbances. If this presumption in favour of the subjects against the trustees of power be not the more probable, I am sure it is the more comfortable speculation, because it is more easy to change an Administration than to reform a people.”
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The Promise of Fiscal Money
Mr. Varafoukis makes the mistake all Economists make. Money is a variable and not good as a measure. Resources are the basis of wealth and Energy is the basis of converting resources into wealth. We face energy constraints because the Energy Return on Energy invested has fallen drastically for conventional Fossil Fuels, whilst we can generate sufficient energy we will struggle to do so at the very high EROI levels we have enjoyed for the 20th Century. Our average EROI in the coming century is unknown but wind power Solar and Hydro together with some Nuclear ( Thorium, SWR) will be probably around 10-15 ( more work needs to be done on this, Steve Keen has started to try to get his head around it, Yannis would do well to chat it through with his Australian Freind)
The point is that Money needs to be rebased to entropic physical realities and pretending that Old Economic Thinking will have any place in the future of our Energy economy realities is magical thinking. What Mr. Varafoukis suggests is nothing more than re arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Mr. Varafoukis in this short piece can be given the benefit of the doubt as to his grasp of horizontalist and Verticalist niceties, ( Basil Moore, http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2017/08/economic-models-and-political-economy.html) (fundamentally though the whole premise of Mr. Varafoukis´s article is incorrect. Energy and Energy returned on Energy invest will be the determinant of future economic realities and the World can no longer stand by and leave the practitioners of the dismal science to play with the Trainset of Political Economy.http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2017/08/renewableseroi-why-money-doesnt-cut-it.html
For a Basic reader on Money, Qua Money Try this
http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2016/08/neo-liberalism-billy-no-mates-or-just.html
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The Deficit Tango
All money, 97% at least is Borrowed Money, Money is in fact a debt. Money is also a Debt at Interest.
The Endegenous of the many endogenous examples that is not mentioned but most imposrtant at the root of this question is Endogenous money creation by Banks as debt at interets.
The Article mentions savings several times, and whilst it does not make an explicit linkage of Saving to lending it odes say that it is incorrect to assume that The US defecit would have an axiomatic opposition to the German Surplus.
The Essay is deeply flawed for its basic ignorance/silence on the question of endogenous money creation which leads to a failure to understand the weaknes/vulnerability/assymetricrisk/moral hazard, at the heart of the 2008 Financial Crisis.
International Trade is not a free Market phenomena under a Petro Dollar reserve Currency standard. International Trade is driven by Geo Politics and strategic alliances Political Economy, Geo Political Economy and Mercantile economy.
This Quote from John Ruskin sums up the jarring frustration when confronted with this sort of Low Grade Economics Voodoo
John Ruskin, Unto this Last 1860, Critique of Classical Political Economy.
Pardon me. Men of business do indeed know how they themselves
made their money, or how, on occasion, they lost it. Playing a
long-practised game, they are familiar with the chances of its
cards, and can rightly explain their losses and gains. But they
neither know who keeps the bank of the gambling-house, nor what
other games may be played with the same cards, nor what other
losses and gains, far away among the dark streets, are
essentially, though invisibly, dependent on theirs in the lighted
rooms. They have learned a few, and only a few, of the laws of
mercantile economy; but not one of those of political economy.´´https://vid.me/fEw7t in this video Professor Richard Werner sets out quite clearly why Banks creating money and the huge centralisation of this process is the root of the 2008 crisis and the continuing malaise in our political economy.
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Why Tax Cuts for the Rich Solve Nothing
Jose araujo JUL 27, 2017
Roger, what would be the difference between spending Debt base money and equity base money?Still can’t figure the difference… and I still have not found any theory that factors debt on economic development.
Hi Jose,
The main point of Werners is that In Germany lots of small banks evenly distributed across Germany mean that locally Small and Medium Enterprises have access to the Capital they need in a symmetric system which is very Robus. Highly centralised Banking models lead to asymmetric risk profiles and lack of skin in the game leads eventually to moral hazard becoming a trivial consideration ( To Big to fail , To big to Jail.“
Werner does not go into the differences between Debt based and credit based money but it does make a difference. The point which Werner does raise and that is relevant here iuis that Banking is extractive of value and not additive, this presents the Statistatic ians caluclating GDP a value added measure witrh a problem because the FInancial Services Sector as a profit centre does nothing to add to real wealth.
On the question of Usury, or the usury Mistake, my views on this are aligned with Bernard Leitaer and his parable of the 11th round, creating money through making loans without creating the interest element to pay for the loans adds competition for money into the System which serves only to commodity money when its real benefit to a market system is to function as an accounting device.
I think Carol Quigley statement Money and Goods are different from Tragedy and Hope makes this point pretty well.
Money and Goods Are Different
”Thus, clearly, money and goods are not the same thing but are, on the contrary,
exactly opposite things. Most confusion in economic thinking arises from a failure to
recognise this fact. Goods are wealth which you have, while money is a claim on wealth which you do not have. Thus goods are an asset; money is a debt. If goods are wealth; money is not wealth, or negative wealth, or even anti-wealth. They always behave in opposite ways, just as they usually move in opposite directions. If the value of one goes up, the value of the other goes down, and in the same proportion.”
The Relationship Between Goods and Money Is Clear to Bankers
In the course of time the central fact of the developing economic system, the
relationship between goods and money, became clear, at least to bankers. Thisrelationship, the price system, depended upon five things: the supply and the demand for goods, the supply and the demand for money, and the speed of exchange between money and goods. An increase in three of these (demand for goods, supply of money, speed of circulation) would move the prices of goods up and the value of
money down. This inflation was objectionable to bankers, although desirable to producers and merchants.On the other hand, a decrease in the same three items would be deflationary and would please bankers, worry producers and merchants, and delight consumers (who obtained more goods for less money). The other factors worked in the opposite direction, so that an increase in them (supply of goods, demand for money, and slowness of circulation or exchange) would be deflationary.”
http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2016/02/usury-hells-fuel-and-mans-oppressor.htmlWith respect to the difference when money supply continues to expand because Banks continue to make sufficient loans to maintain velocity of money sufficient in the system to allow sufficient time for all debtors to meet their interest payments there is not a problem, When the level of loans reduces to the Point where velocity of money slows as hoarding of money becomes “Prudent” the problems of the difference between Debt based money at interest and Credit based money shows up radically, these events are Known as Recessions, but are baked into the debt based money cake.
Here is a link to Lietaers Parable of the 11th round.http://www.lietaer.com/2010/09/the-story-of-the-11th-round/
http://www.lietaer.com/2010/09/effects-of-interest-based-currencies/
Three Main Effects.
Encouragement of Competition
Need for endless growth
The concentration of Wealth.
For a most detailed empirical view of the problems of Usury based monetary creation systems Helmuth Kreutz is I believe the Leading researcher in the field,
Kreutz money syndrome and other important monetary texts are included and embedded at this link.
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Why Tax Cuts for the Rich Solve Nothing
http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2017/05/taxation-for-revenue-is-obsolete.html from the early 1940´s this is not new knowledge.http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2017/07/ceterum-censeo-carthaginem-esse.html . If we are to return to a functioning political economy it is high time we start listening to the Professor Werner´s and Professor Leitaers of the world rather than the Sophists of the dismal science.
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Europe in the Shadows
The article is predicated on a singular world view, that is the view that ‘Might is Right’.
In an information age, where distributed systems allow for maximum subsidiarity the opposite is one possible heuristic, and Small may become beautiful.
As ever in this beautiful world if one puts aside one’s own biases just for a moment one can see that many and diverse combinations work.
Martin Novack is a Mathematical Research Biologist, he makes an appearance in a recent documentary series available on Curiosity Stream called why are we here.‘Mathematical biologist, Martin Nowak, explains the mathematical rules underlying evolution which point to cooperation. Part of a conversation with Ard Louis and David Malone for the ‘Why Are We Here?’ documentary series.’
For the full interview with transcripts and other resources go to whyarewehere.tv/people/martin-nowak/ ‘For the EU to rediscover its purpose, its Metier if you will, what is required is the discovery of Subsidiarity and the Mathematics of cooperation, The EU must in fact make 1984 fiction again and turn away from its persistent obsession with becoming Eurasia.
Brexit and a whole alphabet soup of 27 prefixes “getting”” it”””, is for most people labouring under the mistake that the EU and their individual states are Democracies instead of Corporate Oligarchies. The UK Oligarchy faction supporting Brexit wishes to become part of Oceana and not remain hitched to Eurasia.The people as Burke pointed out in These present discontents following Henry the ivs
able advisor Maximilien de Béthune, 1st Duke of Sully, Marquis of Rosny and Nogent, Count of Muret and Villebon, Viscount of Meaux (13 December 1560 – 22 December 1641) was a nobleman, soldier, statesman, and faithful right-hand man who assisted king Henry IV of France in.“The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake. “Les révolutions qui arrivent dans les grands états ne sont point un effect du hasard, ni du caprice des peuples. Rien ne révolte les grands d’un royaume comme un Gouvernoment foible et dérangé. Pour la populace, ce n’est jamais par envie d’attaquer qu’elle se soulève, mais par impatience de souffrir.” These are the words of a great man, of a Minister of State, and a zealous assertor of Monarchy. They are applied to the system of favouritism which was adopted by Henry the Third of France, and to the dreadful consequences it produced. What he says of revolutions is equally true of all great disturbances. If this presumption in favour of the subjects against the trustees of power be not the more probable, I am sure it is the more comfortable speculation, because it is more easy to change an Administration than to reform a people. Edmund Burke, These present discontents.
1769, ”Regarding the obscenity of choosing Swords over ploughshares, and the present obsession with matters of Marshall conflict is unforgivable. Burke had these words to say.
“A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is worn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion. Besides, there are few statesmen so very clumsy and awkward in their business as to fall into the identical snare which has proved fatal to their predecessors. When an arbitrary imposition is attempted upon the subject, undoubtedly it will not bear on its forehead the name of Ship-money. There is no danger that an extension of the Forest laws should be the chosen mode of oppression in this age. And when we hear any instance of ministerial rapacity to the prejudice of the rights of private life, it will certainly not be the exaction of two hundred pullets, from a woman of fashion, for leave to lie with her own husband.”
In the article we hear from the Hawks, now is a time for we doves to assert our own wisdoms.
Brexit, Oceana or Eurasia The true choice all along? And still the Distractions, cod pieces and all.
´´IF YOU LOVE SOMETHING, SET IT FREE; IF IT COMES BACKS IT’S YOURS, IF IT DOESN’T, IT NEVER WAS ´´.
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Renewing Europe
Indeed one size does not fit all and Mr Macron is, in pursuing the EU Political Project at the expense of democracy, telling us a deeper truth about EU Technocracy.
The Eu is deeply anti-democratic. The UK Spring will be a European Spring no amount of Potemkin Village pretence will fool the European Public further, Once bitten twice shy, En Marche or On Yer Bike?
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Run Down the Brexit Clock
So very little has changed since 2016, I think the prelim or predicate in the article by Yannis nails the reasons why.” The process any member state must follow to exit the EU is governed by Article 50 of the bloc’s Lisbon Treaty, which, ironically, was authored by a British diplomat keen to deter exits from the EU. ”
The EU has hardened its stance on Federalism of a very curious sort More Brussels and less Europe federalism with an ECB and Commission that simply does not allow subsidiarity in questions of monetary policy which is causing the French and Italian problems going on at the moment for which Mr Macron and Mssrs Tusk and Junker seem so blissfully in denial of. Karl Bildt was prescient in these pages here https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/remaking-post-brexit-european-union-by-carl-bildt-2016-07# on these questions more generally.
The importance of Subsidiarity and the competencies of the commission are highlighted in this blog.Another problem is the question of EU military unification a process which has continued under the radar of the Brexit Fuss. https://twitter.com/PMotels/status/1085107914216480768
So its as we were. Democracy Unfolded Emergent Reality of Brexit. (a poem)
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Can the Euro Be Saved?
This is an excellent article. Subsidiarity is perhaps the most ignored part of the founding principles of the EU. http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-orange-one-mayhem-oh-great.html
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