Peer2Politics

Former central banker Bernard Lietaer discusses the need for complimentary currencies within nations, the structure of good and bad money and the wide array of solutions that could be adopted by societies wanting new monetary systems.

Occupy Wall Street has directed our attention to the extreme concentration of wealth resulting from decades of policy designed to trickle down prosperity. Through using a single type of bank debt currency, we allocate our labor and resources to benefit a global elite instead of our communities. Can we engage our local leaders and municipal governments to break this currency monoculture? Can global examples of currency ecology provide a map for improving educational experiences, enhancing the arts and building resilience to the fragility of central bank finance mechanisms?