
"It is very, very important for Congress and administration to come to some kind of program, some kind of plan that will credibly show how the United States government is going to bring itself back to a sustainable position." - B. Bernanke
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"It is very, very important for Congress and administration to come to some kind of program, some kind of plan that will credibly show how the United States government is going to bring itself back to a sustainable position." - B. Bernanke
.Here is the piece: principal payments are extinguished from circulation when a loan payment is made.
Think about what that means!! A good portion of you reading this have skipped over this fact or assumed something about it that isn't true, or missed the big part that's there. So here it is again: principal payments are extinguished from circulation when a loan payment is made.
Bottom line? This is one of two mega-major draw downs in a debt based money system and, therefore, in our economy. If you don't master this concept, you will be off course. If this is not part of your monetary lexicon and seamlessly integrated into your understanding of our monetary system, you ARE off course - and fifteen award winning but deceased economists, saying otherwise, makes no difference.
Forget the experts - those back slappin', two timin', soft shoein', nickle nippin', penny pinchin', jaw jackin', pink-tea and lemonade drinkin', liers. They lie. And they lie to you and to me. And they do it with "authority" and "position" so that you are prone to believe it. They are parroting, in many cases, ideas from some guy, gone long ago, that could NEVER have envisioned trading collateralized debt obligations, 24 hours a day, at the speed of light. Never. Stop following after such foolishness. They don't know and so they lie and make the stuff up, or they parrot someone else. Stop believing it. After today, you don't have to believe them any more. You will have reason enough to think it through on your own.
Most people assume that when a loan payment is made that the bank either puts that money into some vault, or they return it to some other bank, or they put it into their own account as profit, or some such thing. Not so. It goes nowhere. The new loan pricipal was typed into the books when the loan was made and "extinguished" from the books when it gets paid back. Interest is a seperate issue and we have and will continue to cover that elsewhere on this blog. For now, think principal - loan principal.
If I walk in to the bank with $10 in my pocket and take out a $100 loan at 10%. The bank, makes a new $100, and loans it to me. If I pivot on one foot and do a 360 degree turn so that I am back facing the teller, I can pay back the $100 I just got and take the $10 from my pocket to pay the interest. The $100 gets written off the books - extinguished or "uncreated". Gone. Not available to anyone. Not the bank, not the economy in general, no one. I didn't make that up, it comes from the Federal Reserve's own book Purpose and Function!
Imagine, now, everyone that made a mortgage payment this month. A car payment. A student loan payment. A credit card payment. Any loan payment to a bank. ALL of that principal flows out of the economy and is extingushed. Next month, same thing. And the next month. That's quite a little draw down of the money supply, isn't it? How do we get more money, then, into the economy? Borrow more.
What happens if the rate at which loans flow into the economy, does not outpace the rate at which the principal payments are taken out of the economy? In otherwords, what happens if the U.S. (people, government and business) does not borrow fast enough? Principal payments are continuing to be made and the economy dries up. The economy dries up...
That is why they needed a "stimulus" package. And that is why there is record borrowing and debt by the U.S. Government, but no recovery.
Principal payments being extinguished is the hole in the bucket. New borrowing is the hose. Don't borrow fast enough, the bucket dries up.
Solution? We need money that does not flow out the hole in the bucket. Money that is not a principal payment to someone. Money that comes into being, without borrowing. You say, "Why, we can't do that!" Seriously, consider going back to the college you went to and demand your money back for the missinformation they taught you. B.S. we can't do it! We can if we want to! It's in the Constitution and we did it for a long time before the Federal Reserve came around. Read Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. Find where Congress can coin (or make) it's own money. No borrowing. And that means no taxing! Just for once, will you demand that they follow the Constitution!
If you can demonstrate, in detail, how gold can support an economy this big, let me know. If not, then you can still use the same principles as gold - when you use infrastructure.
Monetize the production of the infrastructure and you can rebuild America, this economy and the world - debt free.
With no principal being paid back for the infrastructure rebuild, that money then becomes available to pay down debt, for savings and investment. Isn't that what we want? Isn't that what we need? Then do it! Lean this concept and lobby for it's passage.
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It has no allegiance to the people of the United States
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It lies to you, as a matter of policy
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Right now, all money is created as debt. Therefore, NO money is created to pay the interest on the initial principal.
If NO money is created to pay the interest on initial borrowed money that means we have to borrow to pay interest.
Borrow to pay interest? Madness.
We simply can't borrow our way out of debt.
In addition, when a principal payment is made, that money is extinguished from circulation - it no longer exists for anyone to use. That puts a constant drain on the economy and forces more borrowing. No borrowing, no money.
SOLUTION: Monetize the Production of Infrastructure.
We need SOME money in the economy that is not initially created as debt - otherwise we can never pay off all of our debt and the debt must continue to grow (now our total debt exceeds the GWP or Gross World Product. The whole world working all year can't pay our debt, how can a country in a deep recession pay it? It can’t). We can get debt free money into the system by "monetizing" the production of infrastructure.
HERE'S HOW: Pass a law to authorize the following: 1. The People need a bridge built (this will work with any infrastructure - roads, sewers, electric grid, desalination plants). 2. The RFP (request for proposal) is issued by the state or federal government and the bid process concludes with the winning bid. 3. Congress authorizes the Treasury to deposit newly created money, in the amount of the winning bid (electronic bookkeeping entries, just like they use now - only NOT as a loan. New Debt Free Money), into the transportation account (state or federal). 4. The government entity receiving the new funds pays the contractors, just like they do now. 5. It's NOT a loan. It's direct funding with newly created debt free money. 6. New money flows into the economy, creating jobs, stabilizing banks and growing the economy. 7. It is not inflationary because it is matched with production - the bridge! That is real wealth (raw resources + innovation + labor) that everyone can use. 8. The government entity can use the same principle to pay for current projects and to buy back the existing bonds from bond holders and thus eliminate the debt on their books that goes for infrastructure, helping to balance their budget.
BENEFITS: Millions of Jobs/Stabilized Banks/Balanced Budgets/Increased Liquidity/Lower Taxes/Economic Leadership/And A New Infrastructure Rebuild! – Without Debt.
It's quite simple, actually. Now, we have to borrow to have money. We go deeper into debt and that causes a lot of problems for everyone - borrowers AND lenders. So, stop. Create some money that is not debt and does not benefit any special interest group - and everyone uses our infrastructure, so no special interest there! So, pay for it outright, without borrowing (no need to when government can create their own money); stop hiking up the debt. Banks do that right now - they create new money when they make a loan. The bridge is an asset - real wealth! Fund it directly with newly created money.
A change of mindset, really. It will not tear the fabric of the universe to have some debt free money in the system so that we can pay down some of this debt and put people back to work.
"Yes We Can!"