PBI Newsletter, May 2012 Edition

PBI Newsletter, May 2012 • PublicBankingInstitute.org • May 30, 2012

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Out of the Mouths of Babes: Twelve-Year-Old Money Reformer Tops a Million Views

Ellen Brown • CommonDreams.org • May 30, 2012

The youtube video of 12 year old Victoria Grant speaking at the Public Banking in America conference last month has gone viral, topping a million views on various websites.

Monetary reform—the contention that governments, not banks, should create and lend a nation’s money—has rarely even made the news, so this is a first. Either the times they are a-changin’, or Victoria managed to frame the message in a way that was so simple and clear that even a child could understand it.

Basically, her message was that banks create money “out of thin air” and lend it to people and governments at interest. If governments borrowed from their own banks, they could keep the interest and save a lot of money for the taxpayers.

…In other words, 91% of the debt consists of compounded interest charges. Subtract those and the government would have a debt of only C$37 billion, very low and sustainable, just as it was before 1974.

Read the article here.