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DESCRIPTION:Beginning on August 10th, the Strike Debt Bay Area Economics Book Group 
 began discussing Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital 
 Age. We tackled the introduction and first chapter, available through the 
 'Look Inside' feature on Amazon, for the August 10th meeting.\n\nFor our 
 September 7th meeting, we will be discussing the rest of the first section, 
 Chapters 2-6.\n\nFor our October 12th meeting, we will be discussing 
 Chapters 7-9, the first part of the second section.\n\nAll are 
 welcome!\n\nThe Economics Book Group began with Doughnut Economics and 
 continued with Take Back the Economy.  We read a chapter or two every 
 month.\n\n"Today most of our money is created, not by governments, but by 
 banks when they make loans. This book takes the reader step by step through 
 the sausage factory of modern money creation, explores improvements made 
 possible by advances in digital technology, and proposes upgrades that 
 could transform our outmoded nineteenth century system into one that is 
 democratic, sustainable, and serves the needs of the twenty-first 
 century."\n\n“In Banking on the People, attorney Ellen Brown provides a 
 much-needed roadmap for reforming monetary and credit systems and the 
 central banks now strangling our common human future. More lucidly that any 
 other expert I know, she shows how we can break the grip of predatory 
 financialization now extracting value from real peoples’ productive 
 activities all over the world. Her in-depth research and systemic overview 
 of the global and local politics of money-creation and credit allocation 
 include all the viable proposals of global experts and reformers. She 
 reviews many of these reforms: from financial transaction taxes, to a 
 universal basic income to provide purchasing power for the cornucopia of 
 goods and services now produced, to expanding the public banks she so ably 
 promotes via the Public Banking Institute, to returning the Fed and all 
 banks to serving the public utility functions that economies require. This 
 book is a must read for citizens in all societies who see the promising 
 future as we seek to widen democracies and transform to a cleaner, greener, 
 shared prosperity, based on the renewable abundance of free daily energy 
 from our sun.” - Hazel Henderson, CEO of Ethical Markets Media and author 
 of Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age and other 
 books.\n\n \n\n \n\n \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/08/18826083.php
SUMMARY:Economics Book Group: "Banking on the People." Hosted by Strike Debt Bay Area.
LOCATION:Omni Commons (check whiteboard near entrance for room location)\n4799 
 Shattuck Ave., Oakland, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/08/18826083.php
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