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100 1 _aBrown, Ellen Hodgson,
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245 1 4 _aThe web of debt :
_bthe shocking truth about our money system and how we can break free /
_cEllen Hodgson Brown.
250 _a3rd ed., rev. and expanded.
260 _aBaton Rouge, La. :
_bThird Millennium Press,
_c2008.
300 _axiv, 529 pages ;
_c23 cm.
504 _aBibliography and endnotes and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : captured by the debt spider section I. The yellow brick road : from gold to Federal Reserve notes (1. Lessons from the Wizard of Oz 2. Behind the curtain : the Federal Reserve and the federal debt 3. Experiments in Utopia : Colonial paper money as legal tender 4. How the government was persuaded to borrow its own money 5. From matriarchies of abundance to patriarchies of debt 6. Pulling the strings of the king : the moneylenders take England 7. While Congress dozes in the poppy fields : Jefferson and Jackson sound the alarm 8. Scarecrow with a brain : Lincoln foils the bankers 9. Lincoln loses the battle with the masters of European finance 10. The great humbug : the gold standard and the straw man of inflation) section II. The bankers capture the money machine (11. No place like home : fighting for the family farm 12. Talking heads and invisible hands : the secret government 13. Witches' coven : the Jekyll Island affair and the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 14. Harnessing the lion : the federal income tax 15. Reaping the whirlwind : the Great Depression 16. Oiling the rusted joints of the economy : Roosevelt, Keynes and the New Deal 17. Wright Patman exposes the money machine 18. A look inside the Fed's playbook : "Modern money mechanics" 19. Bear raids and short sales : devouring capital markets 20. Hedge funds and derivatives : a horse of a different color) section III. Enslaved by debt : the bankers' net spreads over the globe (21. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road : from gold reserve to petrodollars 22. The tequila trap : the real story behind the illegal alien invasion 23. Freeing the yellow winkies : the greenback system flourishes abroad 24. Sneering at doom : Germany finances a war without money 25. Another look at the inflation humbug : some "textbook" hyperinflations revisited 26. Poppy fields opium wars and Asian tigers 27. Waking the sleeping giant : Lincoln's greenback system comes to China 28. Recovering the jewel of the British empire : a people's movement takes back India) Section IV. The debt spider captures America (29. Breaking the back of the tin man : debt serfdom for American workers 30. The lure in the consumer debt trap : the illusion of home ownership 31. The perfect financial storm 32. In the eye of the cyclone : how the derivatives crisis has gridlocked the banking system 33. Maintaing the illusion : rigging financial markets 34. Meltdown : the secret bankruptcy of the banks) section V. The magic slippers : taking back the money power (35. Stepping from scarcity into technicolor abundance 36. The community currency movement : sidestepping the debt web with "parallel" currencies 37. The money question : goldbugs and greenbacks debate 38. The federal debt : a case of disorganized thinking 39. Liquidating the federal debt without causing inflation 40. "Helicopter" money : the Fed's new hot air balloon) section VI. Vanquishing the debt spider : a banking system that serves the people (41. Restoring national sovereignty with a truly national banking system 42. The question of interest : Ben Franklin solves the impossible contract problem 43. Bailout, buyout, or corporate takeover? : beating the robber barons at their own game 44. The quick fix : government that pays for itself 45. Government with heart : solving the problem of Third World debt 46. Building a bridge : toward a new Bretton Woods 47. Over the rainbow : government without taxes or debt) Afterword : the collapse of a 300 year Ponzi scheme Postscript : February 2008 : the bubble bursts
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