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MEDIA RELEASE
Date: 30/09/2008 10:43 AM
Debt Mechanism At Heart Of Global Economic Crisis
The current crisis in the world economy stems directly from the 17th century mechanism still being used in this century
to create purchasing power (money) in all its various forms mainly as interest bearing debt.
People who have studied the use of debt as money have warned of the inevitability of increasingly regular ‘adjustments
and corrections’ as the inverted debt pyramid grows to the point of imbalance and becomes unstable. Unfortunately the
owners and beneficiaries of the debt mechanism have succeeded in protecting and indeed extending their power and
privilege to the point that their product has a 98 percent share of the total money supply.
When the monetary system becomes saturated with debt, as is the case today, the need is not to use more debt as a means
to delay the tipping point, as is happening today, but to address the viability of using a mechanism of debt creation as
the primary source of the money needed to ensure the economy is viable long term.
Simply loading more and more debt into any economy is condemning future generations of taxpayers to a greater burden of
interest payments and a growing inability of the economy in practise to meet the needs and expectations of the people it
is, in theory, designed to serve.
The only viable solution is the use of a mechanism that injects a regulated amount of purchasing power into the real
economy debt and interest free as a counterbalance to the debt driven 'market corrections' which have been a repetative
feature of economic activity for the past 150 years but more so since the advent of globalisation.
The only party in NZ proposing to change the historic debt mechanism, as the monopolistic source of ‘money’, are the
Democrats for Social Credit www.democrats.org.nz
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