The Nature of Money Creation
We are all in service to a money system based on simple injustice. It floods rich people with money taken from the poor. Money…
Ivo Mosley
Ivo Mosley studied Japanese for a first degree and Musical Theatre for an MA. He has written fiction, plays, and cultural criticism for many publications, both mainstream and fringe. He became interested in money creation while writing on the illusion of democracy, identifying money-creation by banks as the murkiest of all institutionalised practices in a political system best characterised as kleptocracy masquerading as democracy. His most recent book was In The Name Of The People (Imprint Academic, 2013) and his next book will be titled Robbery By Banks.
Too much power in the wrong hands.
Unless we face up to some simple truths, we are unlikely to experience peace in our world. Given our current political and economic systems,…
What is wrong with the world?
Three things bedevil the modern world so completely that we must urgently sort them or continue down our road of self-destruction. First, what we…
What happens Under Our Present System When Governments Create Money?
Lock-down is an ideal time to consider some simple truths that we’re normally content to ignore. If we want to reclaim our world and…
Chapter 9: Reform
Anyone reading this probably already feels that reform would be a good idea. On paper, reform would be a simple matter: merely cancelling unjust…
Chapter 8: Negotiable Debt, A Bit of History
This chapter is a quick summary and clarification of what happens when debt becomes negotiable. The focus is on money, but other…
Chapter 7: Secrets, Ignorance and Lies: Money, Credit and Debt.
“The tyranny of fraud is not less oppressive than that of force.” John Taylor of Caroline, Virginia (1814). Our money system relies on…
Chapter 6: America, Won and Lost.
After the United States gained its independence from Britain, it became powerful in the world in two very different ways: as an idea,…
Chapter 5: Bubbles and Adam Smith.
This chapter explores how laws enabling debt to be bought and sold transformed Britain. Suddenly, vast quantities of money and value were being…
Chapter 3: How Money Works Today: A Summary.
This chapter summarises how money works today. For convenience’s sake, there will be some repetition of material covered elsewhere. Founded on debt rented…