Category Archives: fiat currency

Socialism scare more accurately aimed at capitalism

It’s hilarious when the capitalists try to fearmonger over trying something that might actually help people. Socialism leads to “complete economic calamity?” Isn’t that what capitalism did in 2008? And 1987? And 1971? And 1929? And is about to do … Continue reading

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5 Ways to Fix The Economy For The Better: Richard Wolff Interview

This interview is instantly my favorite thing Lionel has ever done.  He interviews the brilliant economist Richard Wolff, and from the get-go, it’s a tour de force of common sense obliterating tired, hackneyed, jingoistic propaganda that somehow just won’t die … Continue reading

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Conspiracy fact: Actual proof that banks create money out of nothing (Part 1)

Here at LRM, I have written a great deal about the fact that banks create money out of nothing, ex nihilo, out of thin air.  This assertion was made after extensive research into the money-creation process, and I found that … Continue reading

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Beat The Banks At Their Own Game: Self-Issued Currency In Action (Part Two)

(Part one, about Michael Tellinger and paying off bank “loans” with self-issued promissory notes, can be found here.) What better day to write and post a story involving Irish banks and Irish ingenuity than St. Patrick’s Day? Readers of this … Continue reading

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Beat the Banks at Their Own Game: Self-Issued Currency In Action (Part One)

IMPORTANT NOTE/DISCLAIMER:  The following article is not legal advice and was not written by an attorney.  It is merely a collection of common-sense, rational observations written by a sane, rational layperson with common sense.  It is recommended that you consult … Continue reading

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The great word game of banking explained: reclassifying “loans” as “deposits”

The other day, I ran across another stellar article about money creation at Washington’s Blog. The article, titled “A Loophole Allows Banks – But Not Other Companies – to Create Money Out of Thin Air” contains excerpts from a 2014 … Continue reading

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Bailout vs. Bernie: Which is more “socialist?”

Oh, the smugness that doth flow from those who fancy themselves to be cold realists, allegedly harboring nary a scintilla of fantasy about the way the world doth “really work”—a way which these smug folk unfailingly describe with a single, … Continue reading

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Quantum Theory of Fake Money and Fraud: “The black hole of debt is starting to warp the financial universe”

Professor Max “Planck” Keiser again breaks down for us what is really going on in Episode 827 of the Keiser Report.  Professor Stacy “Einstein” Herbert tells us that in the past few episodes, she and Max had been talking about … Continue reading

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Where is the money gonna come from to pay for all that “free stuff?” From thin air, of course—time to accept the truth.

NOTE: This is not an article about, or necessarily in support of Bernie Sanders.  Please don’t read it that way.  He is just emblematic of the larger point being made herein and therefore has to be referred to multiple times… … Continue reading

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Why Is All Money Ultimately Fake? Economist Steve Keen Explains. Time to Break Your Conditioning.

In a post-Oxi appearance on the Keiser Report (episode #780), noted economist Steve Keen spoke about the Greek economic situation specifically, then about the nature of debt generally, and in so doing perfectly encapsulated what I recently have been chastised … Continue reading

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