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4th
Annual
AMI
2008
MONETARY
REFORM CONFERENCE
At Roosevelt University In
Chicago,
Sept.
25-28
A
registration form is at
the bottom of this page
Some
scholarships should become
available for
bona-fide students. Apply now,
describing your situation.
NOTE: The 2005, 2006 and 2007
Conferences were
professionally Video Taped and are available on DVDs for $375 for each
conference. (order form
below)
The
2006 Conference Was professionally Audio taped and the CD's of that
conference are available for $75. Use the order form below.
2008 Conference Schedule:
(speaking
times and positions are subject to change)
Wednesday evening -
6 PM - 9 PM, registration on the 2nd floor at
Roosevelt University
Thursday 25th September, 2008
9:00 AM
Registration
continues at Roosevelt University until noon, 2nd floor.
1:00
PM Stephen
Zarlenga, opens the
Conference: AMI's
Purpose, Objectives and
Methodology
 Stephen Zarlenga
(early photo) |
Director
and co-founder of the American
Monetary Institute; author of The Lost Science of
Money book; and the Refutation
of Menger's
Theory of the Origin of Money; and Greening the Dollar
a free CD
a free CD of his presentation at the Green Party's July 07 National
Convention;
plus various
articles and speeches, presents the background; objectives;
challenges and methodology of the AMI and the Conference agenda and
goals. An overview of what the AMI has
accomplished since its founding in 1996, and recently
and our challenges and plans for the future.
|
1:45 PM Robert Poteat, Long
term student of
the history
of money systems
Militarism:
Keynes’
"solution" for the Great Depression
Robert
Poteat
|
Robert
Poteat is one of America's most knowledgeable, reality based experts on
our
money system. A long term and meticulous monetary researcher,
certainly among the top half dozen in America in awareness of monetary
systems, and the leader of AMI's Northwest Chapters. Robert will
discuss how John Maynard Keynes proposals during the "Great Depression"
led to the promotion of militarism as the way out of the tragedy created by the Federal Reserve
System and were not a fundamental solution to that monetary crisis.
Deficit spending,
not only
protected the credit money banking system and provided a subsidy to
bankers; but also has been used to advance militarism..
|
2:30
PM Prof.
Bob Blain describes The Bad
Math of Interest
Prof Bob Blain |
Emeritus Professor
of Sociology at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; author of The
Most Wealth for the Least Work
Through Cooperation; and Weaving
Golden Threads of Sociological Theory.
Bob
Blain will explain why
interest charged as a percent is the root cause of the current huge
debt
crisis. Math must conform to the reality it is meant to
describe. Compounding
interest is infinite but economic reality is finite. He will also
offer what
he thinks would be an equitable solution to the debt problem.
|
3:15
PM Coffee/Refreshment Break
3:45 PM
Richard
Distelhorst, monetary
reformer
and political
activist:
What Will
the American Monetary Act Mean in Your locality?
Richard
Distelhorst
|
Richard Distelhorst, a well known monetary
reformer and political
activist; a WWII veteran
(Ist Marine
Division, Guadalcanal); long
term
monetary researcher (another of the top monetary leaders in America)
recipient of the AMI Lifetime
Achievement Award, and leader of the AMI Chapter in Burlington, Iowa
speaks on How A Real Constitutionally Based Monetary
System Would Operate in America.
Dick
discusses how
the American Monetary Act addresses
injustices of the Federal Reserve System, and what it would mean to
local communities.
|
4:30
PM Ken Bohnsack, Founder of the Sovereignty Proposal asks
Is it "Worse enough"
yet???
Ken
Bohnsack
|
Ken
Bohnsack created the "Sovereignty" movement in America for the Federal
Government to
provide interest free loans in the form of U.S. notes to all
governmental bodies from School boards to cities and States,
based on per capita
rules. Over 3300 governmental bodies including two states
signed Ken's
petition supporting this program. It continues now as an integral
part of the
American
Monetary Act. Ken describes how to convince local elected
officials to join us in demanding that
our federal government, under checks and balances, issue our money,
instead of the private banking system. Ken
is an advisor to the American Monetary Institute, and a recipient of
the Institutes Lifetime Achievement Award. |
5:15
PM
Panel of Thursday's speakers
 |
Speakers
summarize and
field more questions
on their
subjects.
|
6:15 PM or so, Break before Reception
6:30
- 9:00 PM Get
Acquainted
Reception,
at the Spertis Lounge, second floor
Good wine
and juices, great cold cuts and cheeses and some tasty "rabbit food" as
well. A few acknowledgement comments, perhaps some entertainment!
Dress:
your choice from informal to fancy.
Friday 26th September
8:00
AM Coffee, tea, breads and
jams availilable at
meeting room.
9:00
AM
Alistair McConnachie will discuss
The Monetary
Reform Situation in Great Britain
 Alistair
McConnachie
|
Premier Brit
monetary reformer, Alistair McConnachie, a
monetary "warrior" and brilliant legal mind, is expected to become a
member of
the Brit Parliament in due course. Editor of Prosperity Newsletter and
organizer with James Gib Stuart of the
acclaimed annual Bromsgrove Monetary
Conferences in Birmingham, UK, for the past 11 years. Alistair will
bring us up to date on monetary reform developments in the UK,
emphasizing what's working there, and who the main players are.
Alistair is the only monetary researcher we know (besides myself) to
figure out
that the many Lincoln quotes supporting the Greenbacks were just made
up. |
9:45
AM
John Herman describes
The Monetary
Reform Situation in Australia
John
Herman photo
|
John Herman tells us whats happening in
monetary reform in Australia. |
10:15
AM Charles
Walters
founder
of Acres USA, environmental farming magazine
on International Monetary Agreements
Charles
Walters
|
The
founder of Acres USA
environmental farming magazine is well known among the farming
community as one of the "grand proponents" for justice toward American
farmers. We experienced his reach first hand, when we made new contacts
with farm operators within actual eyesight of our upstate NY
headquarters, only after Charles reviewed The Lost Science of Money
book in Acres. He describes and discusses the importance international
monetary agreements to farming and to the economy; and how raw
materials production
can serve as a key
indicator for determining how much money should be put into circulation
(which is the subject of his book "Unforgiven.")
Charles is an advisor to the American Monetary Institute.
|
10:45 AM ALTERNATIVE
SOLUTIONS SESSIONS
Dan
Sullivan, Director of Pittsburgh's Saving Our Cities discusses
Some
Possibilities and
Limitations of Local Currencies
 Dan
Sullivan |
Dan Sullivan, director of "Saving Communities," is widely recognized as a brilliant and combative expert on Henry George's Land Taxation concepts. He exposes the core defects of most theoretical "LETS" based currency systems, yet argues that there could be an important, if limited role for alternative currencies, during periods of contracting credit and shows how a local currency, issued by a consortium of landlords, might provide local relief while demonstrating a better structure for a proper national currency.
|
Carl Herman
|
Carl Herman teaches economics at La Canada High School. He has an Ed.M from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, is a National Board Certified Teacher and been honored by two Los Angeles mayors and U.S.C. as one of the city’s best teachers. He has taught monetary reform consistent with AMI’s proposals since 1996. Carl’s expertise is on how to communicate monetary reform in a concise and engaging way that rivets the attention of that most challenging of audiences: teenagers.
|
12:00
PM LUNCH BREAK
1:15 PM Jamie
Walton from New Zealand will speak on
New
Zealand Monetary Reform Solutions That Worked
 Jamie
Walton
|
Jamie Walton, a money reformer
from New Zealand
describes some of New Zealand's experience with partial money reforms
which were actually put into practice for nearly 50 years there and
were working well! He'll discuss how they were implemented
and how they were undone by Hayek's idealogues, with consequent
wreckage, that continues today. Very timely for America since Hayek's
so called "competitive currencies" scheme is being promoted here.
Jamie, a world traveller studying
money reform in various countries, has attended the Chicago AMI
conferences in 2005 and 2007, and is helping to organize this 2008
conference. |
2:00
PM
ALTERNATIVE
SOLUTIONS SESSION
Byron Dale
Yves Jacques
Alain Pilote
Subir Grewall |
Byron
Dale is
well known as a monetary
and political activist and researcher with many years of
research, study and
communication on the monetary system and its effect on people. For
several years he
has promoted Money
Reform at the State Level in
Minnesota and has had hearings there in both
the Minnesota House and Senate. He will describe these proposals to the
conference.
Yves Jacques and Alain Pilote of The Pilgrims of St. Michael,
describe their Social
Unity Coupons Compared to Other Local Exchange Systems, and how
the pilgrims relate it to the Church's social
doctrine. Yves is a senior member of
the Louis Even Institute for Social Justice (Rougemont, Quebec) and a
contributing writer for the
Institutes “Michael” Journal. He and his family are very active
in volunteer work for the
Pilgrims of St. Michael, residing with his wife of 25 years and seven
children in Massachusetts
where he owns an advertising agency.
Alain
Pilote is also a senior member of
the Louis Even Institute and a
Full Time Missionary for the Pilgrims of St. Michael for 30 years.
He is editor for the “Michael” Journal; and international speaker on
monetary reform; authoring 2 books on the Social Credit reform.
The
Pilgrim's "Unity" Project,
though quite counterintuitive can raise consciousness regarding
methods of co-operative living. They hosted me (Stephen Zarlenga) in a
well recieved talk I gave on "Usury - A Destroyer of
Nations" to the international gathering of about 500 of their
members in Montreal a few weeks ago.
Subir
Grewal
is a researcher of monetary history and policy and an
activist for monetary reform beginning while
he was an undergraduate economics student at New York University. His
work background related to money and banking
involves asset management, investment banking, corporate
finance, and commodity trading of physical commodities and futures
contracts. He
was an active leader in the recent grassroots presidential campaign of
Congressman Ron Paul, the only candidate who openly called for serious
reform of the Federal Reserve System. Subir will report on the monetary
viewpoint of the recent Ron Paul convention in Minneapolis, which he
attended.
|
3:15 COFFEE BREAK
3:30
PM Ben
Kjelsus of the Progressive party of Missouri discusses
America's Green Party and
Mainstream Monetary Reform
Ben Kjelsus
|
Ben Kjelsus, a key founder of the Progressive Party of
Missouri, describes his decades of experience with the progressive
movement
in America, and the potential for the Green Party to
support real monetary reform. The Green Party's Platform
Committee has approved (July 11th) a momentous and history making
monetary plank, focused on the three reform elements that the AMI
advocates. Ben will tell us whats next in order for the
whole
party to take this truly historic step. For until now, no major party
has ever embraced all the real elements needed to reform the
monetary system. The Greens are about to do that!
|
4:00 PM Prof.
Michael Hudson, Dr. Norman Ehrentreich, and Robert Meier
Two expert views on the
current financial markets - Whats Next?
Dr.
Norman
Ehrentreich
Prof. Michael
Hudson |
Dr.
Norman Ehrentreich, a
quantitative investment analyst in the fixed income department of
RiverSource Investments of Minneapolis, responsible for
forecasting interest rate
decisions of the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market
Committee; and two other market pros will discuss and analyze the
current situation of the markets and where they might be going.
Prof.
Michael Hudson, author of "Super Imperialism," who predicted the
Housing
Crisis exactly correctly in a
Harpers Magazine Cover Story two years before it happenned gives his
views of the future developments and what's in store for the financial
markets.
|
4:45
PM Bill Bergman Discusses
Cash on Hand or Cash in the Bank
5:15 PM Dr. Edward
Chambers President
of the Industrial Areas Foundation
(the
IAF) discusses:
Organizing
for Power, Action and Justice
Dr.
Edward
Chambers
|
Ed
Chambers is a Philosopher, political organizer, and Author
of "Roots for Radicals," Organizing for Power, Action and Justice; the
advanced source book
for achieving progressive goals. Dr. Chambers discusses
principles of organization that can apply to monetary
reform. The IAF, founded by the late Saul Alinsky has an exceptionally
strong record in getting movements
started and into self financing positions of
strength. Ed Chambers trained Barack Obama in street organizing
when he
moved from the Harvard Law Review to Chicago's South Side; and in the
difference between what
is, and what
should be!
|
Saturday
September 27
8:00 AM Coffee, tea, breads and
jams
available
9:00 AM
Nicolaus
Tideman, Professor
of Economics at Virginia Tech speaks
on
Integrating the
Reforms
Needed for Stable Money and Stable Banking
Prof.
Nic
Tideman |
Prof. Tideman received
his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (where he took classes under
Milton
Friedman among others), taught at Harvard and served as Senior Staff
Economist
at the President’s Council of Economic Advisors before moving to
Virginia Tech
in 1973. He has been Professor of Economics
there since 1985. While his research has
focused primarily on urban economics, public finance, voting rules and
social
justice, in 1975 he collaborated with Nobel Laureate James Buchanan in
writing
on “Gold, Money and the Law.” Nic has
previously engaged our participants on such topics as the virtues of
defining money
in terms of house bricks. His topic this
year is "Integrating the Reforms Needed for Stable Money and Stable
Banking."
Nic is an advisor
to the
American Monetary Institute. |
9:40 AM David
I. Kelley describes
HOW USURY WAS
"LEGALIZED" IN AMERICA
 David
I. Kelley |
Dave
Kelley, Legal
and Economic Researcher from Ohio's Cleveland area, has
witnessed firsthand the growing disparity in income and the resulting
impact on wealth over the last three decades as a Certified Financial
Planner. The issues advisor to presidential,
senatorial and congressional campaigns, Kelley is also a Registered
Principal with the
NASD, author of two books on pensions, hundreds of articles and columns
in the financial area with over 40 articles focusing on pensions and
Social Security. He details the steps by which the most vicious
interest
rates (over 32% annually!) were "legalized" in the U.S. and what can be
done to once again make them illegal!
|
10:20 AM
Congressman
Dennis Kucinich and his wife Elizabeth are
invited to address the conference but
their appearance will depend on
the Congressional and Campaign Schedules. Perhaps the Congressman
will address
us as the after Dinner speaker. (Subject
may be updated)
 
Dennis
& Elizabeth
Kucinich
|
Six
term Congressman from
Cleveland, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Governmental Reform;
2004 and 2008 Candidate for the Presidency of the United States of
America; leading peace advocate; Introducer of Articles of
Impeachment contra George Bush and Richard Cheney;
Dennis Kucinich, who has addressed two previous AMI
Conferences will speak on
Our Constitutional form
of Government Carries Deep Responsibilities for All of Us
|
11:00
AM
Stephen
Zarlenga,
Director, American Monetary Institute on
The
Fiction of Hayek's Notion of Competing Currencies - A Refutation
Stephen
Zarlenga
|
Important
political movements are afoot based on the monetary assertions of the
Austrian School of Economics. Libertarians believe the
Austrians have done their homework. However, whether intended or not,
their views have favored the growth of plutocracy. Zarlenga has
challenged this school with a Refutation of its founder
Carl Menger's "Theory of the Origin of Money." He now deconstructs
Frederich
Hayek's "Denationalization of Money" which is the basis of the present
promotion of Competitive currencies; as the Austrian School moved from
the historically untenable position of advocating gold for money, to an
historically untestable argument against national money
systems. Yes Its "wild and crazy", but do be-aware of it! |
12:00 PM LUNCH BREAK
1:00 - 6:00 pm
Revisiting the "Question" of Usury -
A
Destroyer of Nations or a Necessity of "Economics;" - or
Both?
1:00 PM Stephen Zarlenga introduces the topic with a brief recap
of his 2004 address
to Lord Sudeleys "Monday Club" in London titled The
Usury Problem Remains
1:30 PM
Prof.
Michael
Hudson speaks on
How Antiquity
Dealt With the Debt Problem
|
Dr.Michael
Hudson |
Author, Super
Imperialism and Global Fracture;
editor, Debt and
Economic Renewal in the
Ancient Near East; economic commentator for National Public
Radio;
Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Missouri, Kansas
City
and Chief Economic Advisor to the 2008 Kucinich for President Campaign.
Dr.
Hudson was the first to
publicly
identify the mechanism of "Dollar Imperialism" through the U.S. Balance
of
Payments deficits. His
talk discusses on "How Antiquity Dealt With the Debt Problem,"
including how debt and credit preceded the development of money
including an explanation of the possible origin of money out of
debt/credit
relationships.
|
2:15-6:00 PM
The Morality and
Ethics of Money Systems
and the Ongoing Question of Usury
We've
invited several philosophers and ethicists who focus on economics and
the ethics of money systems to make presentations. Invited
so far are representatives
of the Quakers; the Presbytarians; and the Catholics. Serious
suggestions welcomed. Chapter 7 of
our book
focuses on the Christian Scholastics views, and we know that the
Anglican Church got the Bank of England nationalized in 1946. (See end
of Chapter 20 in The Lost Science of Money book
by Stephen Zarlenga).
Thank you Bill Moyers for
re-introducing the
Usury Question,
through William Greider on TV
in mid July. The AMI defines usury not in
the
false manner put forward
by Jeremy Bentham, as "charging more interest than usual;" but as the
anti-social misuse of the money mechanism for private gain. As today's
headlines show, usury continues to be a major problem.
John Medaille
George Crowell
Geoff Garver
Bill Greider???
Jeremy Bentham crosses over "from the beyond"
|
John
Médaille, the author of The Vocation of
Business: Social Justice in the Marketplace, is a businessman
and theologian. He teaches a course on "Social Justice for Business
Students" at the University of Dallas. His upcoming book Equity and
Equilibrium:
The Political Economy of Distributism will be published in
Spring. His talk is titled, "Usury: Wealth without
Work and Why it
Matters." He will discuss how usury destroys the
incentives for real
investment and reduces the just rewards of both investment and work.
George
Crowell has a Th.D.
from Union Theological Seminary where he studied with Reinhold
Niebuhr. Having taught at Lake Forest College and the
College of Wooster, he moved to Canada in 1968 to teach Social Ethics
in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Windsor
until retirement in 1996. He dealt with a wide variety of crucial
social issues but only became informed about neglected monetary
issues in 1994. He has worked to get the New Democratic Party and
the Green Party of Canada to seek changes in monetary policy,
and to develop awareness in his professional
organization, the Society of Christian Ethics, of the
enormous impact of money systems, for ill or for
good. He will speak of Usury in our
times, and will stress the prospects for religious
organizations to push for urgently needed changes in monetary policy.
Geoff Garver is an environmental law and policy consultant in Montreal, Quebec. He served as Director of Submissions on Enforcement Matters at North America’s Commission for Environmental Cooperation, working on complaints of failure to enforce environmental law. He spent nine years with the U.S. Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division handling cases concerning land and natural resource management, water rights and environmental impact assessment. Geoff grew up in a Quaker family in rural Western New York. He discusses The Impact of Environmental Abuses on the Sustainability of Economic Activity.
We
are hoping for confirmation from financial author Bill Greider that
he will take time from completing his latest book to address our
conference! As mentioned above Bill has re-introduced the problem and
concept of usury into our culture on a recent Bill Moyer's Journal show
on Public Television.
Then in the current issue of The Nation Magazine, Mr. Greider's cover
story calls for placing the Federal Reserve System into the U.S.
Treasury, in effect nationalizing it. This is real progress from
progressives!
In the "interest" of fairness, Jeremy
Bentham the man who saddled
humanity with the present misdefinition of usury as overly high
interest rates, and the creator of utilitarianism, which effectively
removes morality from economics, will make a special
appearance from the beyond,
to defend his deeds with the topic (also the title of his 1811 book on
the subject: "In
Defense of Usury." Please
let him state his case before hurling vegetables.
|
(COFFEE BREAK DURING USURY
SECTION AROUND 3:15
PM)
About 6:00 PM
Break
for Dinner
7:00
PM Dinner and Awards Ceremony
Sunday
September 28th
8:00
AM Coffee,Tea,
breads and jams available in meeting room
9:00 AM Panel discussion on Proposed
Legislation -
American Monetary
Act & Monetary
Transparency Act
Outline of the three main, uncompromisable elements of the act -
the minimum actions necessary to place time on the side of justice
and humanity.
 |
Dick
Distelhorst, Steven
Walsh,
Stephen Zarlenga,
Robert Poteat, Jamie Walton and others discuss The
American
Monetary Act and to a lesser degree The
Monetary
Transparency Act. |
11:00 AM AMI
Chapter Leaders Discuss Successes
and
Challenges.
AMI
Chapters Panel on Political Action. Panel on Political
Action
Program (Planning AMI efforts
until the next conference)
Dick Distelhorst,
Ken Bohnsack, and others
present their
views and experience.
12:00 PM Stephen
Zarlenga closes the
Conference
A brief summary,
outlining some objectives til the next conference, September 24-27,
2009.
12:45 PM
Participants take readily
available taxis for the 3 mile trip to the
North Avenue Beach House where Beach
Barbecue party is already set up 250 yards
South of the Beach House, under the trees in
the grassy area. Shade and chairs available.
NOTE:
Also Invited, but unlikely
to Address this Conference are:
 |
Congressman
Ron Paul, Candidate (?) for President.
Ralph
Nader, Independent candidate for President.
Senator
Chris Dodd, Chairman, Senate Banking Committee.
Senator
Barack Obama, Democratic candidate for President.
Senator
John McCain, Republican Candidate for President.
Congressman
Barney Frank, Chairman, House Financial Services Committee.
Cynthia
McKinney, Green Party candidate for President.
|
Whether
these presidential hopefuls can attend or not, there will be in
attendance, and on the podium, a
surprise appearance by one
former occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave! For security reasons, we can
say no more.
Registration
form below.
Some
of our 2007 Speakers:
2007 SPEAKER
Brian Leslie, Editor
of the
British Green
Party's Sustainable
Economics spoke on Money
Reform - The Key
to a Peaceful,
Sustainable Future
Brian
Leslie |
Brian Leslie was introduced to monetary reform between the
two World Wars by his parents who were campaigning for Douglas's Social
Credit ideas. He joined the Green Party in 1982, and argued for
monetary
reform within it. For the past 16 years he produced and edited Sustainable Economics,
the Green
Party's Policy Working
Group's bi-monthly magazine newsletter.
As one of the United Kingdom's most advanced monetary thinkers, he
see's the fraudulent debt-money system as the key issue preventing
reform toward a peaceful, socially just and sustainable future for
humanity. His talk will connect money reform to the various other
crucial issues
which require urgent reform.
|
2007
SPEAKER Ole
Mackeprang,
European
Financier spoke on
Money
Systems & Warfare
Ole Mackeprang
|
Ole
Mackeprang, European Financier speaks on "Money
Systems & Warfare"
and
will update us on the practical changes the Euro has brought about
since its launch several years ago. At that time the Euro was
proclaimed "dead on arrival." Today pundits are saying that the U.S.
Dollar is the casualty. Mackeprang speaks 8 or 9 languages and has
worked in 62 countries, principally France,
Germany, Italy and Spain (Banque Rothschild and Banque de l'Union
Parisienne are some of the more famous of the companies he has worked
with).
He has recounted his fascinating experiences in a new book pictured at
left, which is destined to become a highly interesting motion picture.
I've read much of it and the life experiences described are what
American kids (20 & 30 year olds) can only dream about in today's
world. It will make an exciting film, and Yes -
we shared some of those experiences working together in old Europe!
|
2007 Speaker
David
Hershey, CFA, Chief Investment Officer, Managing Director,
Lotsoff Capital Management Speaks on: The
Irving Fisher
Story
David
Hershey |
Irving Fisher was one
of America's great economists. If
schedules allow, David Hershey, leading pension fund theorist and
strategist in Chicago and internationally, focuses on Fisher's
promotion of what became known as the "Chicago Plan." That was the
monetary
reform program that came out of the University of Chicago economics
department in its better days, during the Great Depression before the
advent of the "Chicago Boys" and their market worship. It was
expected to be enacted, but got sidetracked politically.The American Monetary Act promoted by the AMI is in large
part based on that Chicago Plan, so what we can learn from this
presentation is especially important to our conference.
|
2007
SPEAKER Prof.
Paul Davidson, discussed
"Reforming the World's
Money in the Absence of a Supernational Government"
Elements Necessary for
International
Monetary Reform
Prof.
Paul
Davidson |
Economics Prof. Paul Davidson,
University
of Tennesee, editor of the well known Journal of Post
Keynesian
Economics website and email group, will present
the minimum
elements necessary to place international
monetary reform on the road to progress. Prof. Davidson, widely
regarded as a leading expert on John Maynard Keynes ideas and life, author of the forthcoming book John Maynard Keynes
(great Thinkers in Economics); will open
AMI's discussion of international monetary reform, which must accompany
or soon
follow the needed national reforms. Its appropriate to start here with
Keynes, since he played such a key role in structuring the present
system, which objectively is now "on the rocks" and threatening the
world's economies.
|
2007 Speaker Larry
Rudebusch, discussed lessons from his recent
Libertarian Candidacy
for Congress in South Dakota
on a Monetary Reform Agenda
Larry
Rudebusch
|
Larry
Rudebusch, the AMI Chapter Leader in Bruce South Dakota ran an uphill
battle for Congress last year as the Libertarian Party Candidate, not
with their normally incorrect monetary viewpoint, but based on the
American Monetary Institute's monetary vision. He'll tell us about the
challenges and hopes involved.
In running his family farm and also as a member of NORM (National
Organization for Raw Materials) Larry knows first hand the relation
between farm production, pricing of farm products, the cost of growing
and harvesting them, and monetary policy including the nefarious role
played by debt.
|
2007
Speaker Chicago
Educator
Steven Walsh spoke on his research into
Ben Franklin's Pennsylvania
system and
Bringing the Monetary
Subject into Grammar and High
School Curriculums
Steven Walsh
|
Stephen Walsh, a
highly
respected Chicago educator of long standing, has extensive work
experience across wide cultural barriers in several parts of the
world. After attending the AMI 2005 Conference, he developed a deep
interest in monetary studies and is co-ordinator of the
AMI Chapter in Chicago. Steven has been focusing on writing an accurate
yet understandable primer on money for young
students. Interestingly, in Chicago, qualified teachers are properly
given the power to decide in large part,
which books their students will study. This could be highly instructive
in promoting monetary reform. He commented after his first
reading of my book:
"If
Zarlenga's book had
been out there in the 60's and 70's we would have known what to have
done beyond being flower children."
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2007 SPEAKER Randall
Burns spoke on
Some Unseen Relations Between
Monetary Policy and Immigration
 Randall Burns |
Randall
Burns holds a degree in Economics from the University of Chicago
and worked over 20 years as a software engineer & developer.
He has
written on public policy issues for the Oregon Peace Worker and he is a
regular
contributor to VDARE.com--a popular web site focusing on
immigration policy.
Burns' genealogy is connected with our monetary system. He shares the
Mayflower ancestor with George W. Bush and Franklin D. Roosevelt, who
helped save the Plymouth colony from ruin and his great grandmother's
uncle was a leader of the Radical Republicans involved in the Greenback
era. His great grandfather, James Stark, was campaign manager for the
leading Democratic opponent of Woodrow Wilson-who approved fromation of
the Federal Reserve.
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2007 Speaker by DVD
The late Dr.
John Hotson, through Hotsons outstanding
video presentation that we are calling
Monetary Reform: An Idea "Whose Time Has
Come!"
John Hotson
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John Hotson (1930-1996) was professor of
Economics at Waterloo University, Canada; a leading proponent of
real monetary reform and founder of the Committee on Monetary Reform
and Education in Canada. He supported Ken Bohnsack's Sovereignty
proposal and in 1991 Ken and John and Prof. Bob Blain were guests of
New Zealand's Democratic Party. This is the classic talk (video on DVD)
that Hotson gave
there. We found it thanks to reminders of its existence from Bill
Hixson another founder of COMER. Hotson's reform proposals, from 1991
through 1996 sound very much like the AMI's proposals do today. This
DVD is
available for $30 postpaid. It represents Hotson's most concise
statement of his monetary reform ideas. Included are several print
files of his fascinating no-nonsense articles.
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2007 SPEAKER Randy
Cook,
Director,
National Organization for Raw Materials spoke
on The
Relation Between Raw Materials
Production And
The Money System
Randy
Cook
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President of the National
Organization for Raw Materials (NORM) since 1997. Beginning in 1936
NORM has studied the nation's economic record, submitted legislation
and taught the realities and methods of what it calls "par
economy;" and publishes its annual Economic Report of the
Producers.
Randy presents the evidence and logic for
monetary growth being based on this
production; how this can be done, for example in agriculture
through a revitalized farm parity program. He has especially helped us
refine the Parity section of the American Monetary Act.
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2007 Speaker Dr. Cay Hehner,
Director
Henry George School of Social Science, NY.
Why
Lionizing Adam Smith Has Harmed Mankind
Cay
Hehner
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Dr. Cay Hehner,
holds a Masters degree in Economics
and Phd in Social Science and Languages (Magna Cum Laude) on the
Ideological Origin of the Holocaust and the Intellectual Resistance,
Free University, Berlin. He has taught languages and
economics in Berlin, Milan, Rome and New York, and has done extensive
work as a Television writer/producer including with The Discovery
Channel.
He summarizes his
continuing research on why Adam Smith's "Program" was bad
for humanity: "Had the majority of the economies...not
followed Smith, but rather the man he considered his outstanding
mentor: David Hume as well as Humists David Ricardo
& Henry George the Cold War would not only have been avoided, as
well as...global environmental devastation...
(and) we would all be healthier, wealthier & wiser for it – not
mention the
real danger of global economic & ecological calamity.
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FUTURE SPEAKER (2009?)
Dieter Braun, from the Ludwig
Maximilians
Universität
of Münich, will
describes
the
Faulty
Methodology in Fractional
Reserve
Accounting, and the Concentration of Wealth
Dr.
Dieter
Braun
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Dieter studied Physics and Biophysics in Ulm and Munich,
Germany and earned a PhD in Biophysics on experimental work
in Neuro-Silicon coupling. We met Dieter when he was doing Post
Doctoral experiments at Rockefeller
University in New York City. He now heads an independent
research group on Biophysics, focusing on nanothermal
biotechnology, and Applied Physics at Ludwig Maximilians
Universität in Munich, Germany.
Dieter's
devotion to investigating monetary matters reminded me of the great
Frederick Soddy. He has applied advanced computer models to isolating
factors causing wealth concentration and estimating how long it takes
before such concentrations "go vertical!" This
also led Dieter to a major critique of errors of methodology in
"fractional
reserve" bank accounting, published in Applied Physics Journals.
Dieter's
presentation will make news. |
1:00
PM- 5PM Beach
Party Barbecue and Magnificent Mile
Swim
Challenge (or walk) !
(Assuming
that Lake Michigan and the weather
co-operate!)
All who seriously enter
the
swim challenge receive a magnificent mile T shirt.
The North
Ledge of Chicago's world
renowned Oak Street Beach
Stephen
Zarlenga's summertime office is located under an umbrella just beneath
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