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Symposium "Sustainable Society" : 2. Enrico Caldari - "What is money?"

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    Event organized by Zeitgeist Movement
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    Verona, November 19th, 2011
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    Symposium "Sustainable Society"
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    Then, the first speaker is Enrico Caldari
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    marketing expert, new medias, independent researcher
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    Since 2005 he has concerned with monetary systems
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    and since 2010 he has also been popularizer, speaking to public
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    with a series of lectures entitled "What is money?"
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    and his facebook page "Kaldari Report".
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    He graduated in Statistics in Bologna
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    and in short, he does a lot of researches and interesting works.
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    We're not to be here redundant, get him come on the stage
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    and he will explain us what is the money. Thank you everyone.
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    - Thank you very much, Federico.
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    Thank you everyone.
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    I say it's a particular emotion for me
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    talking to all of you.
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    but I'll say the truth: I think i'll enjoy myself a little
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    and i will also entertain you a little.
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    As Federico has already said, i have made so many things in my life
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    As all of you, we say that, I had to engineer myself
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    to gain some money to live.
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    Indeed, i ask you a question.
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    How many of you need money to live?
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    Then I will change the question.
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    How many of you do not need money to live?
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    I don't see anyone!
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    All right. In 2005, you can see the date written on a small scale there
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    I have just started to deal myself not so much about money I was doing,
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    about amount of money I was doing, but on quality of money
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    i was using and that we all use.
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    about the nature of money.
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    So I started to explore the theme and some years later
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    some people have asked me to talk about that.
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    to talk about that around and therefore
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    I have put together a series of topics
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    that in the last 10-12 months i have brought around Italy
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    and even England
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    talking about a range of issues related to money.
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    For example I talk about origins of the monetary system.
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    on reason the nature of money is connected to current crisis
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    that is a economic, social, environmental crisis
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    and I would add spiritual crisis too.
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    and then how to change the money could be a solution
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    this is, in my opinion, the first solution.
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    Since we suppose that
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    all of us use money we know what it is
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    I ask you a first simple question.
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    Who creates the money?
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    Then, i'm sure the guy in front of me
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    has tried to print some money in his garage
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    but surely the tobacconist on the corner has caught him immediately.
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    Obviously the correct answer is: central banks.
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    Who creates the money?
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    [Central bank]
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    Wrong!
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    Now i think to understand that we need to deepen the theme for a moment.
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    Then, what you can see here is an graphical exemplification
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    of our amount of circulating money in our society
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    what we all use and it is divided into two parts.
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    look, there is a tiny green part and a larger dark green part . Ok?
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    What are these two parts?
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    Then, the tiny green part is money created by central banks
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    instead the dark green part is credit.
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    What is credit?
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    credit created, we say, provided by commercial banks, by private banks.
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    Then, I ask you a question.
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    If me and the guy here
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    who has had problems with tobacconist
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    we have a business relationship.
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    I have a credit on him, okay?
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    What has he got on me?
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    So if that 95% is credit, necessarily it corresponds to a debt.
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    ok? But there is a "but" ...
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    this debt will be repaid with interests.
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    Then, this very easy mechanism to understand
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    is the reason whole basis of circulating money has to grow
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    because to repay the debt which it is composed
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    as we should also repay all interests
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    Now i don't want to bore you, but the basic concept is that
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    today almost all the circulating money represents a debt
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    that we have to repay with interests.
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    This is, I quote a source of my assertion
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    is the last book by Richard Werner and Josh Ryan-Collins.
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    i also met him in London
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    and the book is titled "Where does money come from"
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    "Where does money come from", released in September of this year
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    and it is one of the most complete pubblications
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    released about this issue in the last years .
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    Now, you will return to home tonight
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    I take my fried here as example again
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    he will return to home this evening, he will meet his father in law and he will say him "Dear...
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    What is his name? There's no father in law, let's call him Mario.
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    "Dear Mario, you know that today I have attended a conference
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    in the centre of Verona, at the cinema, there was this guy is from Romagna.
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    He has said us that most of the money
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    is not created by central banks but by commercial banks
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    as credit, as a loan and they get it out of nothing.
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    What will Mario tell you?
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    This is not true, is not possible. I have got bills in my pocket
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    and there is written on central bank, it's not possible.
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    Then, but the guy from Romagna has quoted us other sources
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    for example he has quoted the chief editor of economics section
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    of "Financial Time" , in 2011 he declared:
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    "The essence of the contemporary monetary system is the creation of money, out of nothing
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    by private banks' often unruly lending."
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    The original adjective is "foolish" ...
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    Mario will say " Irritating journalists, one who says one thing
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    and one who says different things i don't trust, for heaven's sake
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    i wonder who that boy is".
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    So then I will quote another example.
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    This is an official document instead
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    is the quarterly bulletin of the Bank of England
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    Third in 2007, there is written on:
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    "The most important role to create circulating money is covered by the banking sector"
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    "When banks make loans, they create additional deposits for those who get into debt."
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    And Mario says
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    But the world is based on dollars, not on pounds
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    who cares if Bank of England said it.
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    But, be careful, because if even we talk about dollars
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    there's for example the document by Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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    entitled "Modern Money Mechanics" of '61
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    where is written:
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    "The actual process of money creation takes place primarily in the private banks. "
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    And Mario says: "But that's an old document, it's of '61"
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    Then, let's carry on.
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    However it was updated and republished in 1992
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    so anyway ...
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    "but we are in Europe, we use Euro. Who cares about dollars?"
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    Then to conclude:
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    "In the the 'Euro-system the currency is created primarily through the expansion of credit bank the commercial banks can create money themselves"
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    That is a document by Bundesbank entitled "Geld und Geldpolitik"
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    Does anyone know Geman? I don't, but i know what it means
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    "Currency and money policy"
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    Now, my friend's father in law here what will he say?
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    "You're communist"
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    Because then all arguments are finished
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    or alternatively "you are fascist"
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    "you are an anarcho-insurrectionist"
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    "you are a conspiracy theorist"
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    but what gives me more bother is..
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    when people say ... i have now overcome the others
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    but when people say "you are pessimist"
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    As those are just quotes from books and documents
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    let's look at some real things.
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    For example, this is the Wikipedia page
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    describes the economy of Greece.
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    You know that Greek is bottom of the class.
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    It has created many problems in the world economy
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    many fears and concerns, and i would say
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    in 2010 the greek government deficit was 26%
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    that is the greek government made 100 and spent 126
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    Obviously the rating agency's rating was the worst possible
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    bottom of the class: CCC-
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    But let's look at first of the class, United States.
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    I have a looked at the same information again of 2010
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    and i have verified it, the budget deficit in 2010.
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    Then i have discovered what no one had never told me
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    reading newspapers, listening television, books ...
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    in 2010 the U.S. deficit was 59%
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    The U.S. made 100 and spent 159
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    more than double of Greece.
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    Guess what the rating of U.S. government bonds was in 2010.
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    AAA+ is not a laugh but it is precisely the best possible rating.
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    Then, we are starting to understand somethings
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    to begin with it is not clear how rating is got by rating agencies
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    and this is a separate problem, however, what we begin to understand
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    is the problem of budget deficit of the states i would say
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    maybe it' s a "structural" fact, because a deficit like that is not usually done in one year
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    is not that what was unlucky one year, okay?
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    In fact, if we look at history a little
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    this is here the trend of the total debt of United States
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    not only as a government, because someone might say that
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    governament gets debts, but the companies don't get debts.
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    It is not true, this is the total aggregate debt of United States
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    from 1955 to 2010.
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    Do you see that red line? It's the structural trend of debt
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    It rises, okay? From 5000 billion dollars has exceeded
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    55.000 maybe 60.000 billion dollars
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    So clearly, a structural trend.
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    Now, returning to the origin of my talk, we have said that
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    whole circulating money represents a debt
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    It must continue to grow
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    because to repay this debt with interests
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    we need more and more money.
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    So the economy using money must continue to grow
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    We know that economy to grow , needs more and more money.
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    Why does the GDP grow? How does the GDP
    grow?
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    Surely exchanging more money faster
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    It's a way, but the quantity of money must increase.
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    So clearly this kind of sistem faces
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    a structural limit, that is, if we have seen
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    the continuing growth of total debt
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    the economy must grow continuously to repay the debt
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    There is a problem i would call Planet Earth
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    Planet Earth, where we live, is one and also limited.
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    So think about doing a constant infinite growth like that
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    on Planet Earth, perhaps it means to face with a structural limit.
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    Which is the other limit? If we continue
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    to increase the total debt with new deficit every year
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    clearly the expenditure to pay the interests, what will it do?
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    It will increase. Current expenditure, the salaries of politicians
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    maybe we compress it a little
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    but what is trend of investment spending? It falls.
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    So which is the other structural limit of this system?
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    Clearly it is if the debt continues to rise
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    and we have to pay the interests
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    sooner or later we'll pay only the interests.
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    Now very fast question: what do you think is
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    our economic system name?
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    Monetarism, market economy, free market.
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    Honestly I don't very interested your thought
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    what i think is in my opinion
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    the system name is "debt based economy"
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    Now i ask you, What is the end of this kind of system ?
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    I don't think about it just me, surely there is also someone else
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    but surely it won't make a good demise.
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    Now the question is: do we want to make his own demise?
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    to be buried under that mountain of debts
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    or we want to choose ourselves, maybe to bury it
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    and to invent ourselves something new.
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    Now to do that, let's look back on logo that i use on my blog
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    is pronunced Kaldàri
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    I left this little writing on it
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    on the 1 penny coin "We trust".
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    Whole our monetary economic system
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    and then our lives are based on trust about money.
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    Today that confidence is used a little surreptitiously
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    but it can also be used in a more useful and sustenable way.
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    That is Island of Guernsey between England and France
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    At the beginning of 1800 Island of Guernsey had a serious problem.
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    A total debt of 20.000 pounds.
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    on which it had state public revenues
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    we can say it was a small town, of 3000 annual pounds.
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    that had interests on debt of 2.400 pound a year
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    That means there was 600 pounds
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    to make investments and pay salaries.
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    They didn't pay salaries, they had a serious problem.
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    moreover they had decadent public structures
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    the sea eroded the coast
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    so they had a serious problem.
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    They had to invent a way to resolve it
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    without asking to borrow more money
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    becouse otherwise they wouldn't be able even to pay interests
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    and without charging other taxes to the popolation
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    that already was at the limit.
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    What did the people from Island Guernsey do in 1816?
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    A very simple thing, they took small pieces of paper
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    they wrote on "One Pound"
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    and "State of Island of Guernsey"
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    and they spent them.
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    Without borriowing or otherwise.
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    They took small pieces of paper and they wrote on them "One Pound"
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    and why did they take them? To pay the people
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    who were unemployed to get them to go and to cut the trees
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    reconstructing the structure of the market, the barriers to the port
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    and the economy restarted, okay?
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    This is defined The Guernsey Experiment
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    it is mentioned in several documents in the following years
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    also in 1900, so i quote for example 3
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    and it is remembered as the story of Island of
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    Guernsey that just created his own currency
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    no cost to the taxpayers and establishing a prosperous community
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    free community from debt.
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    indeed thriving community, prosperous means another thing.
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    Free community from debt.
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    Then, the people in Island of Guernsey understood
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    a very very simple thing
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    the currency that all of us know
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    as a way to exchange value and to save value.
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    Actually it has another function very much more important
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    that is the stimulus to the social development
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    that we measure as economic growth.
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    Now, because this thing here ...
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    Here there are economists, sure. How many economists are there?
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    One. Good, worse for you.
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    Then, Which is the speech?
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    That they did this operation
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    they printed tens of thousands of pounds
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    they threw them on the market, they bought the work
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    and there was no inflation on the island. But how?
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    If one prints currency, prints more currency out of nothing this creates inflation
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    Why was there no inflation, for a very simple reason
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    Because they invested to make useful things, productive activities
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    but what happens if you print money and use it for example
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    to mop up all the gold there is on the island?
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    So as everyone seek it, and no one find it and they are willing to pay more
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    and the next day they will sell it at a higher price.
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    What is this name?
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    Clearly they didn't use that money to do things like that
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    not for speculative activities.
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    Now i ask you a question, the quiz of the morning
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    just to wake up who already has signs of slowing
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    Can you imagine at 7 tonight. Then, question:
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    What is percentage of loans provided by banks for productive activities today?
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    Swich on it?
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    8%
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    Obviously this refers to the UK market
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    The european figure is a little difficult to assess
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    but it was mentioned by Ben Dyson at the conference in London
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    where i was time ago, where
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    he is Ben Dyson of Positive Money
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    who i met him, really a smart boy.
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    He also mentioned the governor of the Bank of England on 25th October 2010 he said:
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    "Of the many ways in which to organize the banking system what we have today is the worst"
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    I didn't say that. I'm pessimist/conspirator
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    Now, the question is
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    but how can we resolve this problem we have today
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    that is, the debt which is literally overflowing and flooding us?
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    Then, the first part of solution i descrive summarily
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    in my lectures sure is to do like the island of Guernsey
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    breaking the link between the money emission and debt
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    You'll say "but it's a very simple thing, maybe too simple"
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    So you say " let's make a monetary reform
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    we report the money emission to the state
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    or to a public body, we say.
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    Sorry, but at the beginning you have said that ...
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    Who creates the money? The Central Bank.
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    What is the Central Bank? A public body.
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    So i..
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    but in theory you should to think it's a public body
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    I have learned so.
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    Then i'm just saying :
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    we do as all of us believe
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    we report the money emission to the hand of a public body
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    in order to break the link with debt.
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    And you'll say ...
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    you say all these things but someone else has thought about it, right?
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    In fact in '80 years when the 500 Lire note was circulating yet
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    you could see a substantial difference compared to 1000 Lire notes
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    on 500 notes was written "Italian Republic State ticket legal tender"
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    while on 1000 Lire notes was written "Bank of Italy"
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    Where is the difference?
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    Then, the 500 Lire notes with on written "Italian Republic"
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    were printed by state and were expended, they did not represent any debt.
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    while if you read "bank" ...
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    What do banks do?
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    Question to guy here below:
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    what does the tabacconist on the corner do, what does he sell?
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    What does tabacconist sell? What does a grocer sell?
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    No, that one is a pusher.
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    What does the tabacconist sell? The cigarettes.
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    Then, what i ask you is: What does the bank sell?
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    The credit, that is debt. Then if you read "bank"
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    it means that someone has sold a debt to someone else.
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    So this thing was done
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    it's not invented by me, i will tell you more.
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    In England the guy of Postive Money, Ben Dyson
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    collected some documents, he wrote a good book
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    and he managed to convince two british parliamentarians
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    Labour Michael Meacherand and Conservative Steve Baker
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    respectively to the left and right, because they are the left and right
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    both to support the currency reform proposed by Positive Money.
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    What does it propose as a first step?
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    Exactly what we have said
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    to bring again the money emission to the hand of the state, to public body
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    not to Berlusconi or Bersani, clearly
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    to a public body which is able to value the impact and to do that
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    So this proposal is in the hands of two parliamentarians
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    Last Wednesday Ben and Josh Dyson
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    the writer of the book I have just mentioned
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    they also met other parlamentarians behind close doors
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    at the British Parliament, to propose it.
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    So this is not something invented by me, I come from Romagna.
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    Then obviously there are other points for a proposal of monetary reform
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    i propose at the lectures such as point for reflection
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    today there is no time, i have already breached the 2 minutes and 30 seconds
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    and then tomorrow if there is time at the meeting that will continue tomorrow
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    but now to conclude i quote a saying i really like
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    "think global act local".
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    We have talked about this issue of debt
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    of monetary system at the global level
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    But what can we do now?
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    Then, i and my friend Lore Prod
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    he is an artist and graphic designer from Romagna
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    we do great drinking
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    we have created a manifest. This manifest tries to do
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    what i think it is necessary to do now.
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    that is to focus the attention on issue and solution
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    on a possible solution.
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    What is the problem today?
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    All currency is debt today, it is emitted by private banks
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    is encumbered by interests and can only grow.
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    What, money or debt? They're the same thing.
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    What is right asking? Correct is asking
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    to bring again the money emission that we all use to the public hand.
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    The money is a tool not the purpose.
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    Then you can see archetype combination
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    dead and life, disorder-order, gray-color
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    In short we have worked a little
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    if someone here does communication sciences
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    He can write an article.
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    I'll also tell you, finally what is meaning of that hummingbird up there at the top corner.
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    I tell you a little story about hummingbird
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    Then, there is a bug large forest fire
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    all animals are fleeing included the lion
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    is running away from the forest and crosses a hummingbird
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    that is flying in opposite direction with a drop of water in its beak.
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    Lion looks at it and says:
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    "Hummingbird, where are you going with that drop of water?"
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    hummingbird looks at it again seriously and says:
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    "I don't know you, but i do my part"
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    Thank you and i have finished with this.
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    applause
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Symposium "Sustainable Society" : 2. Enrico Caldari - "What is money?"
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