Rethink the Concept of Banks and Currencies
What will banks of the 21st century look like? Well not like you think! Public banking and community currencies are the future of our world.
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May 29, 2012
A lesson in banking practices from young Victoria Grant
Victoria Grant is a 12-year-old Canadian. Her father and she discovered that the debt money system was what was wrong with the Canadian economy and decided to do something about it.
May 23, 2012
Indentured Servitude for Seniors: Social Security Garnished for Student Debts
Predatory lenders are keeping us in debt peonage through misguided economics and bank-captured legislators. We just need to recognize our oppressors and throw off their yoke...
May 18, 2012
Canada Debt by http://occupyourbank.ca/Money-The_Canadian_Experience.php
Oh Canada! Time to Bring Back Your Public Banking System.
Even the world's most resource-rich country has now been caught in the debt trap. Its once-proud government programs are being subjected to radical budget cuts--cuts that could have been avoided if the government had not quit borrowing from its own central bank in the 1970s.
April 27, 2012
Infographic: Is Higher Education the Next Big Bubble?
It may sound preposterous that some have called higher education the next big bubble. Hardly surprising: The sum of student debt stands higher than credit card debt across the United States.
March 28, 2012
Occupy Student Debt – Refuse to Pay
Democracy Now interviews Pamala Brown and Andrew Ross on the movement to refuse to pay student debt until we get certain demands met, including free public education. Sign up now.
November 30, 2011
Guerrilla Money
Thanks to the Occupy movement, more people than ever are thinking and talking about monetary and banking reform. I would like to propose that monetary reform begins in the mind, and then in communities.
November 1, 2011
Higher Education has Increasingly Become a Scam
Today, student debt is an exceptionally punishing kind to have. Not only is it inescapable through bankruptcy, but student loans have no expiration date and collectors can garnish wages, social security payments, and even unemployment benefits.
May 14, 2011
American Dream is American Nightmare for College Grads
Is a college education your best investment? The student debt bubble is about to explode. Student debt has now surpassed credit card debt in the US. Was your college education worth it?
March 21, 2011
The Student Loan Swindle
Is it fair to say that the student loan industry is a scam that targets borrowers who will never be able to repay their debts? Are these students like the people who were seduced into taking out subprime loans?
February 12, 2011