{"id":99149,"date":"2013-12-15T23:59:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T23:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/?p=26266"},"modified":"2013-12-15T23:59:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T23:59:58","slug":"what-the-world-could-be-4-short-videos-to-see-economic-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/what-the-world-could-be-4-short-videos-to-see-economic-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"What the World Could Be: 4 short videos to see economic solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cProject Censored is one of the organizations that we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and our broadcasting outlets are practicing thorough and ethical journalism.\u201d &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio?isbn=1583226052\">Walter Cronkite on Project Censored<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whattheworldcouldbe.com\/WWCB\/Home.html\"><em>What the World Could Be<\/em><\/a> is a project aligned with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectcensored.org\/\"><em>Project Censored<\/em><\/a> to communicate solutions to fundamental global issues. Their four short economics solutions videos are concise communication tools:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whattheworldcouldbe.com\/WWCB\/greenjobsvidintr.html\">Introduction to solutions<\/a> (2-minutes)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whattheworldcouldbe.com\/WWCB\/greenjobsvidmoneycreated.html\">How Money is Created<\/a> (1-minute)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whattheworldcouldbe.com\/WWCB\/greenjobsvidinterest.html\">Interest everywhere<\/a> (6-minutes)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whattheworldcouldbe.com\/WWCB\/greenjobsvidpublicbanks.html\">Public Banking: A Big Solution!<\/a> (4-minutes)<\/p>\n<p>If one understands the mechanics of creating what we use for money and so-called bank loans (credit creation), the answers are obvious to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>end the national debt<\/li>\n<li>have full-employment for infrastructure investment (this results in <em>falling prices<\/em> because infrastructure creates more economic value than investment cost)<\/li>\n<li>release trillions in so-called \u201crainy day\u201d funds documented in government agencies\u2019 comprehensive annual financial reports (CAFRs)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Complete explanation and documentation of these facts, offered as early as Benjamin Franklin\u2019s pamphlet on how to operate governments without taxes (from colonial Pennsylvania\u2019s application of obvious solutions):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/10\/and-its-gone-the-fed-could-simply-cancel-all-5-trillion-of-intragovernmental-debt.html\">And&#8230; it\u2019s gone! The Fed and US could simply CANCEL all $5 trillion of intragovernmental debt<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/12\/world-4-short-videos-see-economic-solutions.html\">What the World Could Be: 4 short videos to see economic solutions<\/a> was <b><u>originally published<\/b><\/u> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/\">Washington&#039;s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Project Censored is one of the organizations that we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and our broadcasting outlets are practicing thorough and ethical journalism.&rdquo; &ndash; Walter Cronkite on Project Censored What the World Could Be is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/12\/world-4-short-videos-see-economic-solutions.html\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/12\/world-4-short-videos-see-economic-solutions.html\">What the World Could Be: 4 short videos to see economic solutions<\/a> was <b><u>originally published<\/u><\/b> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/\">Washington&#8217;s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-99149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}