04844cam a22003734a 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700700030003400800410003701000170007802000180009502000150011304000270012804100080015504300120016305000230017510000410019824501150023925000320035426000550038630000290044150400410047050535430051161000690405465000260412365000320414965000360418165000440421790600450426194200120430694600080431899900190432695201250434517361312BJBSDDR20240813144410.0ta120625s2008    lau      b    001 0 eng    a  2008900963  a9780979560828  a0979560829  aDLCcDLCdBJBSDDRbeng  aeng  an-us---14aHG 501bB877w 20081 aBrown, Ellen Hodgson, d1945-93770514aThe web of debt :bthe shocking truth about our money system and how we can break free /cEllen Hodgson Brown.  a3rd ed., rev. and expanded.  aBaton Rouge, La. :bThird Millennium Press,c2008.  axiv, 529 pages ;c23 cm.  aBibliography and endnotes and index.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
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