Married Life and Bank Accounts

The Need For Monetary Reform http://www.monetary.org/the-need-for-monetary-reform/2009/09 Edited extracts from "Manhattan Tower" (1932) by Frank R. Strayer with Mary Brian, Irene Rich an A.E. Lefcourt production Storyline: The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023187/ http://archive.org/details/manhattan_tower Key Economic Facts: -- Indeed, most people would be surprised to learn that our money supply is not created by our government, but by private banks when they make loans. -- The current system creates "money" when banks make loans into accounts; so most of our money is issued as interest-bearing debt. -- The money issuing power should never be alienated from democratically elected government and placed ambiguously into private hands... "The Need For Monetary Reform", Sep 30, 2009 http://www.monetary.org/the-need-for-monetary-reform/2009/09 " [...] the legacy of war, conquest, and slavery has never completely gone away." David Graeber's "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" http://www.monetary.org/review-of-david-graebers-debt-the-first-5000-years/2013/01