If you would like to have more information about the recent so-called "economic recession", the victims of global fraud, the artificial scarcity of money, or, if you would like to know more about the credit card industries, their criminal interest rates (which cause depression and suicides), and more besides, you should have a look at this informative document and browse in this real treasure trove of selected information ordered by medium and topic:
Documentaries | Fractional Reserve Banking | |
Books & Essays | Basic Income | |
Credit Cards | Gift Economy | |
Bailouts and Recession | Organizations about critical finance | |
Tax Havens | SUGGEST MATERIAL FOR THE INFOSHOP |
- "I.O.U.S.A." 2008 directed by Patrick Creadon
- "Let's Make Money" (2008) directed by Erwin Wagenhofer
- "Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory" (2006) directed by James D. Scurlock
- "In Debt We Trust" (2006) directed by Danny Schechter
- "Secret History of the Credit Card" (2004) produced by PBS FRONTLINE
- "The Money Fix" (2009) directed by Alan Rosenblith
- "Inside Job", (2010) directed by Charles Ferguson
- "Money as Debt" (2009) animation by Paul Grignon
- "The Crisis of Credit" (2009) visualized by Jonathan Jarvis
- "Capitalism: A Love Story" (2009) directed by Michael Moore
- "Credit Card Nation" by Robert D. Manning
- "The no-nonsense guide to global Finance" by Peter Salker
- "People First Economics" by David Ransom
- "The Violence of Financial Capitalism " by Christian Marazzi
- "The Future of Money " by Bernard Lietaer
- "The Memory Bank " by Keith Hart
- "Web of Debt" by Ellen Brown.
- "Collateral Damaged: The Marketing of Consumer Debt to America" by Charles R. Geisst
- "The Buyout of America" by Josh Kosman
- "Inequality and the Global Economic Crisis" by Douglas Dowd
- "The New Empire of Debt: The Rise & Fall of an Epic Financial Bubble" by W. Bonner
- "The Economics of Innocent Fraud" by John Kenneth Galbraith
- "Living in a bubble: credit, debt & crisis" MetaMute, Vol. 2 #6
- "Artificial Scarcity in a World of Overproduction" by Sander. MetaMute, Vol. 6#16
- "Debt: The first five thousand years", by David Graeber, MetaMute 12, 2009.
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-08-20-graeber-en.html - "Gesa Helms, Marina Vishmidt, Lauren Berlant, Affect & the Politics of Austerity": An interview exchange with Lauren Berlant, in Variant (Dec 2010)
http://www.variant.org.uk/39_40texts/berlant39_40.html
- "I could lose my house. It's that serious"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/oct/27/credit-card-crackdown-case-study
- "Credit Card Nation: The Consequences of America’s Addiction to Credit"
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/23/robert_manning_credit_card_nation_the
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"The Card Game" New Doc Investigates History of Credit Card Industry"
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/18/the_card_game_new_doc_investigates
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"Bad Credit Cards Turn Nasty-Can You Say 79.9%?"
http://draftwilberforce.com/2009/12/19/bad-credit-cards-turn-nasty-can-you-say-799/
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"$336 Million Credit Card Fee Settled Approved by US Judge"
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN222486020091022
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"WikiLeaks cables: US lobbied Russia on behalf of Visa and MasterCard"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/08/wikileaks-us-russia-visa-mastercard
- Definition by Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
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Fractional Reserve Banking requires a Business Cycle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxrdHBlPUZk
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Banking: Multiplier effect and the money supply
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7r7l1VG-Tw
- Basic Income official website
http://www.basicincome.org/bien/
- Definition by Wikipedia
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
http://p2pfoundation.net/Basic_Income
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_redistribution
- Philippe Van Parijs
http://www.amazon.com/Real-Freedom-All-capitalism-Political/dp/0198293577
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allocation_universelle
http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plcdib/imprints/vanparijsinterview.html
- Definition by Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy
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Pay it forward
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_it_forward
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Regift
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiving
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Natural Money
http://www.naturalmoney.org/introduction.html
- List of acquired or bankrupt banks in the late 2000s financial crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquired_or_bankrupt_banks_in_the_late_2000s_financial_crisis
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The bailouts transferred tens of billions of public money into the black holes of bank balance sheets.
http://manchestermule.com/article/comment-a-total-innocent-has-been-sentenced-to-death-whilst-the-criminal-flees-the-courtroom
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"Looting Main Street"–Matt Taibbi on How the Nation’s Biggest Banks Are Ripping Off American Cities with Predatory Deals
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/12/looting_main_street_matt_taibbi_on
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/32906678/looting_main_street
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Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz: Foreclosure Moratorium, Government Stimulus Needed to Revive US Economy
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/20/nobel_laureate_joseph_stiglitz_on_how
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Alistair Darling defends secret loans to RBS and HBOS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8378087.stm
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How Our Entire Economy Became a Ponzi Scheme
http://www.alternet.org/economy/146027/how_our_entire_economy_became_a_ponzi_scheme
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The Truth Behind Corporate America’s Scam to Get You to Work Harder for Less Money
http://www.media-ocracy.com/?p=1121
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IMF withdraws claim of £200bn UK bank bailout bill
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article6144037.ece
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The “Dirty Little Secret" Of the US Bank Bailout
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/oct2008/pers-o27.shtml
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Where's the bank bailout money?
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/12/22/bailout.accountability/
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Bankers and protesters speak out in Chicago
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/video/2009/oct/27/american-bankers-association-protest-chicago
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Taxing the Speculators
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/opinion/27krugman.html?_r=1
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Move Your Money And Make Too-Big-To-Fail Banks Smaller (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-tv/arianna-move-your-money-a_b_415686.html
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Celebrities, MPs and clergy urge government to rein in RBS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/nov/29/iain-banks-royal-bank-scotland
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Bonus time as banks pay out £40bn
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jan/08/bonus-time-city-banks
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Ireland's financial crisis - as it happened
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/blog/2010/nov/24/ireland-four-year-fiscal-plan-bailout-live-blog
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Cleaners 'worth more to society' than bankers - study
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8410489.stm
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Bank bail-out 'could send national debt soaring by £1.5 trillion'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/19/national-debt-lloyds-hbos
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Tax Justice Network
http://www.taxjustice.net
http://taxjustice.blogspot.com/
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FTSE 100 tax haven tracker
http://www.actionaid.org.uk/103031/ftse_100_tax_haven_tracker.html -
Stop paradis fiscaux
http://www.stopparadisfiscaux.fr/
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Business and Investors Against Tax Haven Abuse
http://businessagainsttaxhavens.org
- 3 Minute Version of Banking in the Shadows of Jersey
http://blip.tv/file/2896452
Organizations about critical finance:
- http://www.attac.org
- http://falseeconomy.org.uk
- http://www.neweconomics.org
- http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org
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http://rethinkingfinance.org
- http://www.ifiwatch.tv
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http://www.eurodad.org
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http://www.tjm.org.uk
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http://www.banktrack.org
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http://www.gci.org.uk
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http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk
- http://www.debtonation.uk
- http://DYNDY.net
- http://www.occupytogether.org
Index:
Video Documentaries | Fractional Reserve Banking | |
Books | Basic Income | |
Credit Cards | Gift Economy | |
Bailouts and Recession | Organizations about critical finance | |
Tax havens | SUGGEST MATERIAL FOR THE INFOSHOP |