Imagine boy scouts at summer camp. They are living in the “Buffalo” cabin and “Sam” is their adult troop leader. Camp is fun, but there is much to be done to ensure the cabin functions smoothly. Floors swept, beds made, trash carried out, bathroom cleaned, food prepared, dishes washed, fire wood split and so on. Sam spends lots of time cajoling the scouts to do their chores. Tired of the “battle,” Sam decides to create a “money” system that allows his scouts to earn payment for doing their chores which can then be exchanged for things each boy wants. The cabin will be the “Nation of Buffalo” with a fiat currency called ...

In 2003 the United States invaded Iraq. Since then the ongoing wars in the Middle East and Africa have cost trillions of dollars. The money appears out of nowhere. Virtually no legislators ask, “How are you going to pay for it?” In 2008 U.S. and world financial systems were on the verge of total collapse. Wall Street banks had been gambling in trillions of dollars of fraudulent loans and “exotic financial instruments” and the bets had gone bad. The banks were corrupt, but to avoid total financial devastation to America, we were told they had to be made whole again. The U.S. Congress authorized a signed, blank check at the U.S. Treasury, ...

Where sovereign nations with sovereign currencies are concerned, asking “how are you going to pay for it” is always posing the wrong question. It automatically introduces artificial monetary constraints due to flawed manmade economic premises, and societies are invariably told “there isn’t enough money and they must do without.” The real question is, “do we have the resources, energy, manpower, and knowledge to provide for societal needs?” At 21st century levels of human knowhow, the answer to this question is virtually always “yes.” This is economic thinking based on the laws of the Universe. It is the Universal Economy. For ...

Santa Fe, New Mexico is a city of roughly 70,000 people. They have just won a major victory in overcoming the parasitic bonds of the Wall Street banking cartel. Rather than continuing to live in endless debt servitude to wealthy predators, the people of Santa Fe are choosing to invest in themselves. City wealth and capital will be placed in a community owned bank and interest on investments will be returned to the people. Millions of dollars in public funds that would have gone to Wall Street will now be used to improve life for the citizens of Santa Fe. The Wausau metropolitan area has about 70,000 people. Marathon County has a population of about ...

A dangerous assault on the United States of America is now well underway. It hardly makes the news. Under the guidance of the billionaire Koch brothers funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and other corporately supported think tanks, 29 states have passed a resolution calling for a Constitutional Convention for the purpose of passing a federal “Balanced Budget Amendment.” Only 5 more states are needed to reach the 34 required to force the holding of this historically unprecedented event (the original Constitutional Convention was held in 1787). Led by Republican State Senator Chris Kapenga, a long-time ALEC member, Wisconsin may ...

The Wall Street Bank System Washington Public Banking Coalition Public Banking Institute One of the first actions President Donald Trump and his newly appointed cabinet members ( several of whom are former employees of Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs) plan to take in “Making America Great Again” is to substantially increase our already destructively bloated military budget. It will do nothing to make us more safe. While our corporately directed armed forces are manipulated to pursue pre-emptive, imperialist wars abroad, we as American citizens are being impoverished and enslaved from within. As the above graphics display, our true enemy ...