Banks - United Diversity

97% Owned - documentary about money and economics

Back in May 2003 we started a wiki to ‘discuss monetary reform and democracy [https://web.archive.org/web/20030613112808/https://wiki.uniteddiversity.com/uniteddiversity] ‘, and I just posted Positive Money’s Banking 101 video course [https://uniteddiversity.coop/2013/08/01/banking-101-how-money-and-banking-actually-works/] , probably the best introduction to how money

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Banking 101 - How money and banking actually works

This great little collection of videos is the clearest and most authoritative introduction to exactly how the monetary and banking system in the UK actually works. It is based on the excellent book ‘Where Does Money Come From [https://www.neweconomics.org/publications/entry/where-does-money-come-from]?’ published by the Positive Money

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Money and Life - a new documentary about money

Have you seen Money and Life [https://moneyandlifemovie.com] yet? It is a great new film all about money that is well worth watching. I’m pleased to say that I helped fund the production of the film by contributing to their crowdfunding campaign. It is not too late to

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Time to replicate WIR Bank?

The WIR Bank [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIR_Bank] in Switzerland has been successfully running for over 60 years. It was started in the 1930s in response to the great economic crises of the time. Studies have shown [https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Money_and_Economics/Community_Currencies/WIR] that

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Financial co-operatives: A safe bet in a crisis

The Co-opreative News [https://www.thenews.coop/] has reported [https://www.thenews.coop/article/financial-co-operatives-safe-bet-crisis] news about a study by the International Labour Organization [https://www.ilo.org/] calledResilience in a downturn: The power of financial cooperatives [https://www.ilo.org/empent/Publications/WCMS_207768/lang--en/index.htm]. You can

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Inside Job (with Spanish subtitles, again)

This is a must see film. We’ve posted it a couple [https://uniteddiversity.com/inside-job/] of times [https://uniteddiversity.com/must-see-film-inside-job-with-spanish-subtitles/] before, but those videos have since been removed. Here is is again, again with Spanish subtitles:

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Inside Job

The last version of this film we posted [/must-see-film-inside-job-with-spanish-subtitles/] has since been removed so here it is again (this time with Greek subtitles). It is an important film well worth watching. You can also watch (and download) it on vimeo [https://vimeo.com/23086688], or download it via bittorrent [https:

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RIP Richard Douthwaite

Saddened to hear the news that Richard Douthwaite just passed away after a period of illness. Richard was a tremendous pioneer and thought leader who championed economies that functioned in balance with and of the ecology. Please, if you do nothing else, read at least these two of his books

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The Money Fix

The Money Fix [https://www.themoneyfix.org/], another must see documentary about money and the banking system. > “Money is at the intersection of nearly every aspect of modern life. Most of us take the monetary system for granted, but it has a profound and largely misunderstood influence on our

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Must See Film: Inside Job (with Spanish Subtitles)

Inside Job is a really good film that deserves your attention. I just stumbled across an online copy and thought I should post it so as many people get to see it as possible. If this copy disappears you can download it using bittorrent here [https://www.kat.ph/search/

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In Debt We Trust

In America’s earliest days, there were barn-raising parties in which neighbors helped each other build up their farms. Today, in some churches, there are debt liquidation revivals in which parishioners chip in to free each other from growing credit card debts that are driving American families to bankruptcy and

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Zeitgeist - The Movie: Federal Reserve

This is part 3 of the original Zeitgeist Movie [https://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/] (see some of my thoughts on that here [https://uniteddiversity.com/zeitgeist-addendum/]), all about money [https://uniteddiversity.com/money/], banking [https://uniteddiversity.com/tag/banking/] and the Federal Reserve in the US.

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Zeitgeist: Addendum

After the first Zeitgeist Movie [https://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/] was released it was saddening how many people took at as the whole and complete truth without asking any further questions (particularly when the homepage of the films producer used to read “It is my hope that people will not take

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The Money Masters

This very long (215 minutes) money [https://uniteddiversity.com/money/] documentary has lots of interesting history in it about the battle over the control of money and banking in the US. If I remember rightly the presenter proposes going back to the gold standard, but whilst that might be better

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The Matrix - A Poem by Paradox

I know Paradox from the London party scene. He’s a good chap 🙂 Here is a great poem he wrote about money [https://uniteddiversity.com/money/] and banking [https://uniteddiversity.com/tag/banking/]… The Matrix [https://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=10874821]

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Money

Here you will find links to all the great money resources on this site 🙂 Basic Info: * Money Today [https://uniteddiversity.com/money-today/] * A Brief History of Money [https://uniteddiversity.com/a-brief-history-of-money/] Money Books: * Money Books [https://uniteddiversity.com/money-books/] * More money books [https://uniteddiversity.com/more-money-books/] * see also Money downloads

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Money as Debt

Widespread debt slavery created by an insane banking system is undoubtedly one of the biggest problems we all face. This video animation, Money as Debt [https://www.moneyasdebt.net/] by Paul Grignon [https://www.moneyasdebt.net/], is undoubtedly one the most important films ever made. If you don’t yet