The looming danger in our current banking system; the Financial Stability Board; securitization; lack of credit; money markets; the MERS System; bail-ins; the 2005 bankruptcy law; Dodd-Frank; compound interest; banking in other countries; sustainable banking models; the Reconstruction Finance Corporation; solutions to the banking crisis. Listen

The Public Banking Institute; public versus private banking; two banking models - sustainable and extractive; the Federal Reserve; the shadow banking system; the repo market; the benefits of a public banking system; debt; the money supply, compound interest; and all things money. Listen

Brief history of banking; two ways to create money, either publicly or privately; credit creates money and debt; the Federal Reserve; bubbles and crashes; market manipulation; recent changes in banking and accounting rules; securitization; Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland; the need for state owned banks. Listen