People’s Economics

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Do-It-Yourself: How to start a Micro-Finance program in your region?

The Self-Help Association for a Regional Economy (SHARE) is a model community-based nonprofit that offers a simple way for citizens to create a sustainable local economy by supporting businesses that provide products or services needed in the region.

Microfinance 2.0: New Tools, New Goals and New Ways to Lift People out of Poverty

Some of the major misconceptions about microfinance — small loans of under $100 that enable Third World residents to become entrepreneurs — can be summed up by what happened roughly a decade ago, when the pioneering Grameen Bank decided to help female villagers in Bangladesh enter the mobile phone business.

BerkShares: A Great Economic Experiment

BerkShares are a local currency for the Berkshire region. Dubbed a “great economic experiment” by the New York Times, BerkShares are a tool for community empowerment, enabling merchants and consumers to plant the seeds for an alternative economic future for their communities.

Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System
Our money system is not what we have been led to believe. The creation of money has been “privatized,” or taken over by a private money cartel. Except for coins, all of our money is now created as loans advanced by >>

What money is and how it is created?
Paul Grignon’s 47-minute animated presentation of “Money as Debt” tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created. >>

The Money Masters
The Money Masters is a documentary, produced by Patrick S. J. Carmack and directed and narrated by William T. Still. It discusses the concepts of money, debt, and taxes, and describes their development from biblical times onward. >>

Course in Basic Economics
ChrisMartenson Crash course is a concise video seminar on how our economy, energy systems, and environment interact, and how they will impact the future. >>

Articles

Why Economists Failed to Predict the Financial Crisis?

There is a long list of professions that failed to see the financial crisis brewing. Wall Street bankers and deal-makers top it, but banking regulators are on it as well, along with the Federal Reserve. Politicians and journalists have shared the blame, as have mortgage lenders and even real estate agents.

Noam Chomsky on the economy and democracy

Noam Chomsky speaks to Paul Jay on the Obama – Geithner plan. Chomsky says that “they’re simply recycling, the Bush-Paulson measures and changing them a little, but essentially the same idea: keep the institutional structure the same, try to kind of pass things up, bribe the banks and investors to help out, but avoid the measures that might get to the heart of the problem.”

The Real Truth behind the Citigroup Bank Nationalization
On Friday November 21 the world came within a hair’s breadth of the most colossal financial collapse in world history according to bankers on the inside of events with whom we have contact. The trigger was the bank which only two years ago was America’s largest, Citigroup. >>

What Cooked the World’s Economy? It wasn’t your overdue mortgage.

It’s 2009. You’re laid off, furloughed, foreclosed on, or you know someone who is. You wonder where you’ll fit into the grim new semi-socialistic post-post-industrial economy colloquially known as “this mess.” >>