Look here for a good overall summary of the key points you should know, such as what money is, how it is created and why this process is at the heart of our current economic mess. Material in this section should be around 5-10 mins long and no more than 15 mins.
Click on each image to watch the corresponding video in a pop up box or alternatively click on the headline to go to the post that may contain a written explanation of the video in question. The grid at the bottom of the page works in much the same way but is also a representation of all the videos in this series. Just so you don’t miss out on anything.
This isn’t the most riveting of short films but in amongst it is an incredibly important statement that would blow most people’s minds (mine at least). This fact is: banks create money when a loan is made. I’ll repeat that. In todays fiat money system, commercial banks are the main source of new money. They […]
This is a great little video which compares the US bailout spending to other major historical spends. We are spending a lot more than we did for all of World War II. Including the rebuild. Not that I’m sure this is inflation adjusted. And money isn’t as real as pretends to be. But still, it […]
Another good one with a nice flow about it.
by InformationIsBeautiful.net http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/debtris/ directed by: David McCandless animation by: Miles Tudor, Dom Del Torto music: Daniel Pemberton sources: NY Times, The Guardian, BBC data here: http://bit.ly/debtris
A great way to present data. by InformationIsBeautiful.net http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/debtris/ directed by: David McCandless animation by: Miles Tudor, Dom Del Torto music: Daniel Pemberton sources: NY Times, The Guardian, BBC data here: http://bit.ly/debtris
On first glance it would be hard to see why, but this talk by Professor Bartlett is one of the most utterly compelling things I have watched and makes you totally rethink what “reasonable growth” means. A must watch. Professor Al Bartlett begins his one-hour talk with the statement, “The greatest shortcoming of the human […]
