The Essentials of Banking
In this section we document studies of the empirical evidence for
1. The Role of Banks in the economy;
2. The Three Theories of Banking;
3. What is a deposit?;
4. What is a loan?
Recent banking crises & economic models that ignore banks. (Richard Werner)
"Since the American and European banking crisis of 2007–8, the role of banks in the economy has increasingly attracted interest within and outside the disciplines of banking, finance and economics. This interest is well justified: Thanks to the crisis, awareness has risen that the most widely used macroeconomic models and finance theories did not provide an adequate description of crucial features of our economies and financial systems, and, most notably, failed to include banks.2 These bank-less dominant theories are likely to have influenced bank regulators and may thus have contributed to sub-optimal bank regulation: Systemic issues emanating from the banking sector are impossible to detect in economic models that do not include banks, or in finance models that are based on individual, representative financial institutions without embedding these appropriately into macroeconomic models.3"
Banana Wars - US Marines Fight for Fruit Corporations
- War is a Racket
Audio Book (Major General Smedley Butler)
- America's Untold Stories: Smedley Butler
Hunley & Groubert (Brief history of Major General Smedley Butler)
- An American Coup de'tat: the JFK Assassination
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"Murder Most Foul" (A political poem about the Murder of JFK) by Bob Dylan
Efforts for Peace
- President Kennedy’s Peace Speech (June 10, 1963)
- Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
SIPRI was and remains a source of good info on the war machinery around the world ... "defense spending" and all of that.
It is being challenged by hegemonic private corporate interests in multiple economic sectors, and changing the narrative from "peace" to "security".
