Velocity of Money

The Secret of Oz

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:00:00 +0000

The Secret of Oz
"The Secret of Oz" FREE English version - order a DVD or donate @ SecretofOz dot com

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What’s the Movie About?

It is well known in economics academia that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum in 1900 is loaded with powerful symbols of monetary reform which were the core of the Populist movement and the 1896 and 1900 president bid of Democrat William Jennings Bryan.

The yellow brick road (gold standard), the emerald city of Oz (greenback money), even Dorothy’s silver slippers (changed to ruby slippers for the movie version) were the symbol of Baum’s and Bryan’s belief that adding silver coinage to gold would provide much needed money to a depression-strapped, 1890s America.

We believe Baum’s symbols represent the only solution to relieve the growing economic hardship here in America – and the rest of the world. Practically speaking, 2009 marks the 70th anniversary of the 1939 MGM release of the The Wizard of Oz movie, so interest will be very high. Even Oz websites put up by kids get millions of hits.

Who's In It?

Joseph Farah, Founder and CEO of WorldNetDaily.
Peter Schiff, President of Euro-Pacific Capital, the leading “bear” on Wall Street, author.
Byron Dale, author and monetary reform expert, author of many books.
Ellen Brown, author Web of Debt, attorney, and monetary reform expert
James Robertson, former official in a variety of slots in the UK government, and head of the Inter-Bank Research Organization, author of many books
Prof. Nick Tideman, VA Tech University School of Economics
Prof. Michael Hudson, President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (1972 and 2003)
John Keyworth, Curator, Bank of England Museum
Prof. Quentin Taylor, professor of political science at Rogers State University
Reed Simpson, banker, asset manager

Intro

“In 1996, in a documentary called “The MoneyMasters”, we asked the question why is America going broke. It wasn’t clear then that we were, but it is today. Now the question is how can we get out of this mess. Foreclosures are everywhere, unemployment is skyrocketing – and this is only the beginning. America’s economy is on a long, slippery slope from here on. The bubble ride of debt has come to an end.

“What can government do? The sad answer is – under the current monetary system – nothing. It’s not going to get better until the root of the problem is understood and addressed. There isn’t enough stimulus money in the entire world to get us out of this hole.

“Why? Debt. The national debt is just like our consumer debt – it’s the interest that’s killing us.

“Though most people don’t realize it the government can’t just issue it’s own money anymore. It used to be that way. The King could just issue stuff called money. Abraham Lincoln did it to win the Civil War.

“No, today, in our crazy money system, the government has to borrow our money into existence and then pay interest on it. That’s why they call it the National Debt. All our money is created out of debt. Politicians who focus on reducing the National Debt as an answer probably don’t know what the National Debt really is. To reduce the National Debt would be to reduce our money – and there’s already too little of that.

“No, you have to go deeper. You have to get at the root of this problem or we’re never going to fix this. The solution isn’t new or radical. America used to do it. Politicians used to fight with big bankers over it. It’s all in our history – now sadly – in the distant past.

“But why can’t we just do it again? Why can’t we just issue our own money, debt free? That, my friends, is the answer. Talk about reform! That’s the only reform that will make a huge difference to everyone’s life – even worldwide.

“The solution is the secret that’s been hidden from us for just over 100 years – ever since the time when author L. Frank Baum wrote “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.”

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Aired: 2009

Part 4: Why Are We All in Debt?

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Sun, 23 May 2010 00:16:00 +0000

Part 4: Why Are We All in Debt?

Is boom and bust inevitable? Why does the value of money keep on falling? Why are we all in debt? Do we really have to live like this?

We're a group of researchers who believe in the age-old prohibition of usury. In the Autumn of 2005, we produced a short documentary explaining that a banking crisis was waiting to happen. But the economy was roaring and the word "crisis" wasn't on anyone's lips. Economists asked us "Why are you talking about bank runs? These things don't happen anymore". Some politicians were more confident still. "This government has put an end to boom and bust" one of them told us.

Then we had a bank run and the economy collapsed. Suddenly, the TV channels were full of documentaries on the banking system. Trouble is, their documentaries had orthodox bankers doing most of the talking. We thought to ourselves "Weren't these the guys who caused the problem? And now they're telling us how to put things right?".

So here's our side of the story. And may the truth win, for everyone's sake.

Written and presented by Tarek El Diwany. With Peter Challen and Ahmad Thomson. Produced by Fig Tree Film. Camera by Barry Jacklin and Abu Bakr Patterson. Sound by Ann Bradnam. Editing by Ahmed Khelloufi. Design by Spark Associates. Colour DVD. Running time 26 minutes.

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Part 3: Why Are We All in Debt?

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Sun, 23 May 2010 00:16:00 +0000

Part 3: Why Are We All in Debt?

Is boom and bust inevitable? Why does the value of money keep on falling? Why are we all in debt? Do we really have to live like this?

We're a group of researchers who believe in the age-old prohibition of usury. In the Autumn of 2005, we produced a short documentary explaining that a banking crisis was waiting to happen. But the economy was roaring and the word "crisis" wasn't on anyone's lips. Economists asked us "Why are you talking about bank runs? These things don't happen anymore". Some politicians were more confident still. "This government has put an end to boom and bust" one of them told us.

Then we had a bank run and the economy collapsed. Suddenly, the TV channels were full of documentaries on the banking system. Trouble is, their documentaries had orthodox bankers doing most of the talking. We thought to ourselves "Weren't these the guys who caused the problem? And now they're telling us how to put things right?".

So here's our side of the story. And may the truth win, for everyone's sake.

Written and presented by Tarek El Diwany. With Peter Challen and Ahmad Thomson. Produced by Fig Tree Film. Camera by Barry Jacklin and Abu Bakr Patterson. Sound by Ann Bradnam. Editing by Ahmed Khelloufi. Design by Spark Associates. Colour DVD. Running time 26 minutes.

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Part 2: Why Are We All in Debt?

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Sun, 23 May 2010 00:14:00 +0000

Part 2: Why Are We All in Debt?

Is boom and bust inevitable? Why does the value of money keep on falling? Why are we all in debt? Do we really have to live like this?

We're a group of researchers who believe in the age-old prohibition of usury. In the Autumn of 2005, we produced a short documentary explaining that a banking crisis was waiting to happen. But the economy was roaring and the word "crisis" wasn't on anyone's lips. Economists asked us "Why are you talking about bank runs? These things don't happen anymore". Some politicians were more confident still. "This government has put an end to boom and bust" one of them told us.

Then we had a bank run and the economy collapsed. Suddenly, the TV channels were full of documentaries on the banking system. Trouble is, their documentaries had orthodox bankers doing most of the talking. We thought to ourselves "Weren't these the guys who caused the problem? And now they're telling us how to put things right?".

So here's our side of the story. And may the truth win, for everyone's sake.

Written and presented by Tarek El Diwany. With Peter Challen and Ahmad Thomson. Produced by Fig Tree Film. Camera by Barry Jacklin and Abu Bakr Patterson. Sound by Ann Bradnam. Editing by Ahmed Khelloufi. Design by Spark Associates. Colour DVD. Running time 26 minutes.

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Part 1: Why Are We All in Debt?

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Sun, 23 May 2010 00:11:00 +0000

Part 1: Why Are We All in Debt?

Is boom and bust inevitable? Why does the value of money keep on falling? Why are we all in debt? Do we really have to live like this?

We're a group of researchers who believe in the age-old prohibition of usury. In the Autumn of 2005, we produced a short documentary explaining that a banking crisis was waiting to happen. But the economy was roaring and the word "crisis" wasn't on anyone's lips. Economists asked us "Why are you talking about bank runs? These things don't happen anymore". Some politicians were more confident still. "This government has put an end to boom and bust" one of them told us.

Then we had a bank run and the economy collapsed. Suddenly, the TV channels were full of documentaries on the banking system. Trouble is, their documentaries had orthodox bankers doing most of the talking. We thought to ourselves "Weren't these the guys who caused the problem? And now they're telling us how to put things right?".

So here's our side of the story. And may the truth win, for everyone's sake.

Written and presented by Tarek El Diwany. With Peter Challen and Ahmad Thomson. Produced by Fig Tree Film. Camera by Barry Jacklin and Abu Bakr Patterson. Sound by Ann Bradnam. Editing by Ahmed Khelloufi. Design by Spark Associates. Colour DVD. Running time 26 minutes.

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The Robin Hood Tax

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:00:00 +0000

A tiny tax on bankers that would give billions to tackle poverty and climate change, here and abroad.

This tax on banks – not you or I - has the power to raise hundreds of billions every year. It could give a vital boost to the NHS, our schools, and the fight against child poverty in the UK – as well as tackling poverty and climate change around the world.

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Aired: 2/9/10 12:00

Scottish Monetary Reform

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:00:00 +0000

Debt & Deception published here, is a short, no frills booklet describing how the banking system has come to dominate the life of Joe Public and his democratic government. Written well before the current world banking collapse (but with an updated Foreword). it explains how the banks sowed the seeds of their own destruction and what we could have done to prevent it.

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Source: http://www.scottishmonetaryreform.org.uk/
Aired: 1/1/10 12:00 AM

The Warning — Part 6: Late 2008 - Born's nightmare comes true

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:06:00 +0000

Part 6: Late 2008 - Born's nightmare comes true

In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008.

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Aired: 10/20/2009 12:06 AM

The Warning — Part 5: 1998 - Born's warning becomes a prophecy

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:05:00 +0000

Part 5: 1998 - Born's warning becomes a prophecy

In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008.

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Aired: 10/20/2009 12:05 AM

The Warning — Part 4: The Earthquake

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:04:00 +0000

Part 4: The Earthquake

In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008.

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Aired: 10/20/2009 12:04 AM

The Warning — Part 3: Get this lady off our backs

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:03:00 +0000

Part 3: Get this lady off our backs

In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008.

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Aired: 10/20/2009 12:03 AM

The Warning — Part 2: Brooksley Born arrives on the scene

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:02:00 +0000

Part 2: Brooksley Born arrives on the scene

In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008.

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Aired: 10/20/2009 12:02 AM

The Warning — Part 1: The Go-Go '90s

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:01:00 +0000

Part 1: The Go-Go '90s

In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008.

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Aired: 10/20/2009 12:01 AM

Prof Michael Hudson talks about Icelandic debt

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:00:00 +0000

Prof Michael Hudson talks about Icelandic debt

Professor Michael Hudson interviewed on Icelandic talk show Silfur Egils.

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Aired: 4/5/09 12:00 AM

John Perkins talks about Icelandic debt

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:00:00 +0000

John Perkins talks about Icelandic debt

John Perkinsn interviewed on Icelandic talk show Silfur Egils.

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Aired: 4/5/09 12:00 AM

Part 6: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — The Greenback and National Dividend Solutions

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:06:00 +0000

Part 6: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — The Greenback and National Dividend Solutions

A Video in Six Parts Written and Produced by Richard C. Cook ©2009 by Richard C. Cook. All Rights Reserved.

The U.S. should convert to a system where the money supply is created by the federal government by being spent into circulation without government borrowing or taxation as was done with the Greenbacks. The Federal Reserve should no longer be a bank of issue. Additionally, a National Dividend should be paid directly to the people. The “Cook Plan” calls for the initial distribution of vouchers in the amount of $1,000 a month plus a new system of community savings banks. Greenbacks combined with a National Dividend will create a non-inflationary democratic currency and transform the economy of the United States.

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Source: Richard C. Cook Blog

Aired: 3/24/09 12:00 AM

Part 5: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — The Gap Between Prices and Income

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:05:00 +0000

Part 5: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — The Gap Between Prices and Income

A Video in Six Parts Written and Produced by Richard C. Cook ©2009 by Richard C. Cook. All Rights Reserved.

One of the most important and least understood concepts in modern economics is the existence of a gap between prices and purchasing power. This gap results when a portion of prices must be set aside as business and private savings. The money is then used by the financial system for lending and speculation. Keynesian economics takes control of some of the savings through government deficit spending but is still a compromise with control of the economy by the financiers. In fact Keynesian economics has helped cause the collapsing debt pyramid. A better system would be to provide consumers with a National Dividend as a way to monetize the continuous appreciation of the producing economy.

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Aired: 3/24/09 12:00 AM

Part 4: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — What is Credit and Who Should Control It?

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:04:00 +0000

Part 4: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — What is Credit and Who Should Control It?

A Video in Six Parts Written and Produced by Richard C. Cook ©2009 by Richard C. Cook. All Rights Reserved.

Fractional reserve banking is the process by which banks create credit out of thin air. But despite abuses of the system, credit is still a crucial part of modern economics. An enlightened concept of governance would view credit as a public utility. This means that government must take back the control of credit from the private financiers.

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Aired: 3/24/09 12:00 AM

Part 3: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — The Collapse of the Financial System

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:03:00 +0000

Part 3: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — The Collapse of the Financial System

A Video in Six Parts Written and Produced by Richard C. Cook ©2009 by Richard C. Cook. All Rights Reserved.

The collapse we are seeing today began in the financial system, not the producing economy. The crisis started with the housing bubble which the Federal Reserve created by cutting interest rates and then brought own by raising them. The trigger of the 2008 bank meltdown was refusal by European banks to purchase any more “toxic” U.S. debt based on mortgages and sold as securities. Now, with the decline in equity values, the burden of debt in our economy has grown even larger. Thus a renewal of bank lending will not solve the problem, while the economic stimulus program of the Obama administration is likewise insufficient to restore economic health.

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Source: Richard C. Cook Blog

Aired: 3/24/09 12:00 AM

Part 2: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — The Federal Reserve System: The Bankers Take Over

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:02:00 +0000

Part 2: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — The Federal Reserve System: The Bankers Take Over

A Video in Six Parts Written and Produced by Richard C. Cook ©2009 by Richard C. Cook. All Rights Reserved.

President Lincoln’s Greenback system worked but was undermined and replaced by the financiers who got Congress to pass the National Banking Acts of 1863 and 1864, then the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. The United States now became a nation dominated by the financial elite, the banks, and a debt-based monetary system. Consequently, the 20th Century was one of constant cycles of inflation and deflation resulting in the economic chaos we see today.

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Source: Richard C. Cook Blog

Aired: 3/24/09 12:00 AM

Part 1: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — Our Early Political Leaders Warned Us Against the Banking Interests

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:01:00 +0000

Part 1: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — Our Early Political Leaders Warned Us Against the Banking Interests

A Video in Six Parts Written and Produced by Richard C. Cook ©2009 by Richard C. Cook. All Rights Reserved.

Early U.S. statesmen, such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Andrew Jackson worked to free the nation from control by the bankers who had been behind the establishment of the First and Second Banks of the United States. During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln implemented a true democratic currency by spending Greenbacks directly into circulation without borrowing from the banks. These measures allowed the U.S. to develop for much of the 19th century largely free from bankers’ control. By the end of the century, this had changed, and the bankers were taking over.

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Aired: 3/24/09 12:00 AM

Money as Debt II — Promises Unleased

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:00:00 +0000

Bailouts, stimulus packages, debt piled upon debt, where will it all end?

How did we get into a situation where there has never been more material wealth & productivity and yet everyone is in debt to bankers?

And now, all of a sudden, the bankers have no money and we the taxpayers, have to rescue them by going even further into debt!

Money as Debt II Explores the baffling, fraudulent and destructive arithmetic of the money system that holds us hostage to a forever growing DEBT...and how we might evolve beyond it into a new era.

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Aired: 2009

Elizabeth Warren — The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class: Higher Risks, Lower Rewards, and a Shrinking Safety Net

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:00:00 +0000

Distinguished law scholar Elizabeth Warren teaches contract law, bankruptcy, and commercial law at Harvard Law School. She is an outspoken critic of America's credit economy, which she has linked to the continuing rise in bankruptcy among the middle-class.

Elizabeth Warren's website is: http://www.law.harvard.edu/

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Aired: 6/11/07 12:00 AM

Elizabeth Warren — Conversations with History: Law, Politics, and the Coming Collapse of the Middle Class with Elizabeth Warren

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Sun, 20 May 2007 12:00:00 +0000

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren for a discussion of the economic pressures confronting the two income middle class family as it struggles to pay mortgages, health care, and education costs. Professor Warren offers surprising answers to "Who goes bankrupt and why?" and explores the role of banks and credit card companies in tightening the squeeze on the average American family. The interface between politics and the law in addressing these problems is explored.

Elizabeth Warren's website is: http://www.law.harvard.edu/

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Aired: 5/21/07 12:00 AM

In Debt We Trust

nzfreepress@gmail.com (The Velocity of Money) — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:00:00 +0000

In America's earliest days, there were barn-raising parties in which neighbors helped each other build up their farms. Today, in some churches, there are debt liquidation revivals in which parishioners chip in to free each other from growing credit card debts that are driving American families to bankruptcy and desperation.

IN DEBT WE TRUST is the latest film from Danny Schechter, "The News Dissector," director of the internationally distributed and award-winning WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception), an expose of the media's role in the Iraq War. The Emmy-winning former ABC News and CNN producer's new hard-hitting documentary investigates why so many Americans are being strangled by debt. It is a journalistic confrontation with what former Reagan advisor Kevin Phillips calls "Financialization"--the "powerful emergence of a debt-and-credit industrial complex."

While many Americans may be "maxing out" on credit cards, there is a deeper story: power is shifting into fewer hands.....with frightening consequences. IN DEBT WE TRUST shows how the mall replaced the factory as America's dominant economic engine and how big banks and credit card companies buy our Congress and drive us into what a former major bank economist calls modern serfdom. Americans and our government owe trillions in consumer debt and the national debt, a large amount of it to big banks and billions to Communist China.

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Source: http://www.newsdissector.com/

Aired: 4/24/07 12:00 AM