Web of Debt : The Shocking Truth about Our Money System and How We Can Break Free

by Brown, Ellen Hodgson

• ISBN13: 9780979560828
• ISBN10: 0979560829
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-05
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

This title unravels the deceptions in our money scheme with a clear picture of the financial abyss we are plunging into. It explores a tested, workable alternative endorsed by the best American thinkers like Franklin, Jefferson and Lincoln. If you care about financial security, your own or the nation's, and want to dodge the bursting bubbles crashing around us, you should read this book.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Introduction: Captured by the Debt Spider	p. 1
The Yellow Brick Road: From Gold to Federal Reserve Notes	p. 9
Lessons from The Wizard of Oz	p. 11
Behind the Curtain: The Federal Reserve and the Federal Debt	p. 23
Experiments in Utopia: Colonial Paper Money as Legal Tender	p. 35
How the Government Was Persuaded to Borrow Its Own Money	p. 47
From Matriarchies of Abundance to Patriarchies of Debt	p. 57
Pulling the Strings of the King: The Moneylenders Take England	p. 65
While Congress Dozes in the Poppy Fields: Jefferson and Jackson Sound the Alarm	p. 75
Scarecrow with a Brain: Lincoln Foils the Bankers	p. 83
Lincoln Loses the Battle with the Masters of European Finance	p. 91
The Great Humbug: The Gold Standard and the Straw Man of Inflation	p. 97
The Bankers Capture the Money Machine	p. 105
No Place Like Home: Fighting for the Family Farm	p. 107
Talking Heads and Invisible Hands: The Secret Government	p. 115
Witches' Coven: The Jekyll Island Affair and the Federal Reserve Act of 1913	p. 123
Harnessing the Lion: The Federal Income Tax	p. 133
Reaping the Whirlwind: The Great Depression	p. 141
Oiling the Rusted Joints of the Economy: Roosevelt, Keynes and the New Deal	p. 151
Wright Patman Exposes the Money Machine	p. 161
A Look Inside the Fed's Playbook: "Modern Money Mechanics"	p. 171
Bear Raids and Short Sales: Devouring Capital Markets	p. 181
Hedge Funds and Derivatives: A Horse of a Different Color	p. 191
Enslaved by Debt: The Bankers' Net Spreads over the Globe	p. 201
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: From Gold Reserves to Petrodollars	p. 203
The Tequila Trap: The Real Story Behind the Illegal Alien Invasion	p. 215
Freeing the Yellow Winkies: The Greenback System Flourishes Abroad	p. 223
Sneering at Doom: Germany Finances a War Without Money	p. 233
Another Look at the Inflation Humbug: Some "Textbook" Hyperinflations Revisited	p. 239
Poppy Fields, Opium Wars and Asian Tigers	p. 249
Waking the Sleeping Giant: Lincoln's Greenback System Comes to China	p. 257
Recovering the Jewel of the British Empire: A People's Movement Takes Back India	p. 265
The Debt Spider Captures America	p. 275
Breaking the Back of the Tin Man: Debt Serfdom for American Workers	p. 277
The Lure in the Consumer Debt Trap: The Illusion of Home Ownership	p. 285
The Perfect Financial Storm	p. 293
In the Eye of the Cyclone: How the Derivatives Crisis Has Gridlocked the Banking System	p. 301
Maintaining the Illusion: Rigging Financial Markets	p. 313
Meltdown: The Secret Bankruptcy of the Banks	p. 325
The Magic Slippers: Taking Back the Money Power	p. 335
Stepping from Scarcity into Technicolor Abundance	p. 337
The Community Currency Movement: Sidestepping the Debt Web with "Parallel" Currencies	p. 347
The Money Question: Goldbugs and Greenbackers Debate	p. 357
The Federal Debt: A Case of Disorganized Thinking	p. 367
Liquidating the Federal Debt Without Causing Inflation	p. 375
"Helicopter" Money: The Fed's New Hot Air Balloon	p. 383
Vanquishing the Debt Spider: A Banking System that Serves the People	p. 391
Restoring National Sovereignty with a Truly National Banking System	p. 393
The Question of Interest: Ben Franklin Solves the Impossible Contract Problem	p. 407
Bailout, Buyout, or Corporate Takeover? Beating the Robber Barons at Their Own Game	p. 417
The Quick Fix: Government That Pays for Itself	p. 425
Government with Heart: Solving the Problem of Third World Debt	p. 435
Building a Bridge: Toward a New Bretton Woods	p. 441
Over the Rainbow: Government Without Taxes or Debt	p. 451
Afterword: The Collapse of a 300 Year Ponzi Scheme	p. 463
Postscript: February 2008 - The Bubble Bursts	p. 465
Glossary	p. 479
Selected Bibliography of Books and Suggested Reading	p. 487
Notes	p. 489
Index	p. 521
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