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The IOU Machine: How Currency Is Created | Hidden Secrets of Money Ep. 4

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Episode 4 of Mike Maloney's Hidden Secrets of Money, explaining how currency is created through a chain of IOUs among the Treasury, banks and the Federal Reserve. It covers bonds, Fed checks, debt, taxes and fractional reserve lending, from a gold-and-silver…

Recommended, often in Bitcoin and monetary threads, as a clear introduction to how the US money system works, though it comes with a strong goldbug slant.

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@jondubois2020-09 · in “The unrealized potential of federation”

> Cryptocurrency is the digitally woke techbro’s ponzi scheme The fiat monetary system is a ponzi scheme. Watch "Hidden Secrets of Money": ▶ this video I also recommend doing your own research after this. The evidence is clear and overwhelming. Cryptocurrency is merely a response to this scam and its continued success helped to further prove that the financial system is a scam. Even if you assumed that cryptocurrency is a scam, what kind of financial system enables a scam to thrive for 10+ years? In such a system, how can you tell the scams apart from the non-scams? Clearly the so-called 'free markets' are not capable of distinguishing the two. What's to say that most big tech corporations aren't scams? They get a lot of 'free money' from the government through massive contracts to build projects which only add more bureaucracy.

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@mrnobody_672020-03 · in “The Longest Record Broken: Gold/Silver Ratio Hits Highest in Over 5,000 Years”

This is the best explanation I've ever seen of how the Fed and US Dollar money printing actually works: ▶ this video Most people also don't realize that the Fed, which buys Treasury's drawn on a bank account with $0 in it, is privately owned - and distributes dividends to its private shareholders holders (who are not disclosed).

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@jcslzr2019-01 · in “Ten Years of Bitcoin”

You don't understand that what we call "money" today its a scam: ▶ this video BTC will create prosperity we can not even dream of

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@jondubois2020-09 · in “5k people have pledged to give 10%+ of their income to effective charities”

I recommend reading up on monetary policy and the Federal reserve (and watch videos) and you will understand what I mean and how it fits into Annand's description of the world (it compounds the problem). It's a lot worse than you think. I recommend also doing your own research to verify all the facts. I had a hard time believing some of the facts presented but all checked out so far. Hidden Secrets of Money: ▶ this video An interesting recent discussion I found which discusses the current state of the economy: link Actually the second one is eye-opening for anyone who wants to make sense of the current situation.

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@ZenoArrow2015-11 · in “What happens when a culture is driven by the need for money to make more money”

To understand what debt-free money is (and to address how the US money system currently works), I'd recommend this video: ▶ this video Please note that although there are a couple of subtle hints in the video about returning to the gold standard, the video can still be of use as a general introduction into the US money system even if you don't think that's a good idea (I don't think it's a good idea to go back to the gold standard). Hope the video can be useful for you, I know I found it useful. Feel free to ask me any questions about debt-free money (and how it could be implemented) after watching the video.

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