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The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2024 edition)

by Thomas H. Greco, Jr.

Chapter Twelve: Credit Clearing, the “UnMoney”

Reform or Transcendence?

Emerging Exchange Alternatives

Separating the Functions of Money

Back to Commodity Money?

The Unit of Account Versus the Unit of Currency

The Measurement of Value

Confusion Caused by Legal Tender Laws

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The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2024 edition)

by Thomas H. Greco, Jr.

Chapter Eleven: Credit Clearing, the “UnMoney”

Direct Clearing Among Buyers and Sellers

Buying and Selling on Credit

Clearing through Banks Versus Mutual Credit Clearing

Direct Credit Clearing Makes Conventional Money and Banking Obsolete

Mutual Credit Clearing Systems as Clearing Houses for Buyers and Sellers

Direct Credit Clearing—An Illustrative Example

Balance Limits and Settlement

Providing Surety of Contract

An Insurance Fraud

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The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2024 edition)

by Thomas H. Greco, Jr.

Chapter Ten: The Third Evolutionary Stage—The Emergence of Credit Clearing

Banks Implement the Credit Clearing Process

Thing or Relationship? Particle or Wave?

A Confusion of Language

An Example of Credit Clearing Among Banks

Settlement of Accounts

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by Thomas H. Greco, Jr.

Chapter Nine: The Evolution of Money - From Commodity Money to Credit Money and Beyond

What We Don’t Know Is Hurting Us

Economic Exchange and Interpersonal Distance

Kinds of Economic Interaction

What is Money?

“The Ladder of Economic Civilization”

The First Evolutionary Step—Barter to Commodity Money

Commodity Money

Symbolic Money

The Second Evolutionary Step—From Commodity Money to Credit Money

Redeemability Abandoned

Checks and Checkable Deposits Displace the Use of Banknotes

Gold Versus Credit Money—A Comparison

How Credit Money Malfunctions

This half-hour interview comes from the Pelle Neroth Taylor Show on TNT Radio which aired on Thursday, May 30, 2024.

This is a wide-ranging conversation about the problems with the present political system of money and exchange, and the decentralized exchange mechanisms that have been developing in parallel with it, including both commercial and grassroots currencies and credit clearing exchanges.

The full episode can be viewed at TNT Radio at https://tntvideo.podbean.com/e/thomas-h-greco-and-kate-allen-on-the-pelle-neroth-taylor-show-31-may-2024/

A transcript can be seen at https://beyondmoney.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/pelle-neroth-taylor-show-on-tnt-radio-2024-5-30.docx

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The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2024 edition)

by Thomas H. Greco, Jr.

Chapter Eight: The Separation of Money and State

The Separation of Church and State

The Separation of Money and State—A Comparison

The Disestablishment of the “Monetary Religion”

Two Meanings of “Dollar”

Delinking from the Dollar as a Payment Medium

Delinking from the Dollar as a Measure of Value

Stable Value Reckoning

Toward Freedom of Exchange

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The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2024 edition)

by Thomas H. Greco, Jr.

Chapter Seven: The Nature, Cause, and Consequences of Inflation

What is Inflation?

Who Has the Power to Inflate?

Improper Basis of Issue by Banks Is Inflationary

Government Deficits and Inflation

The German Hyperinflation—A Classic Case

How the Inflation Was Ended

Constraints upon Debasement of the Money

The Consequences of Dollar Inflation

Responding to Inflation

Ralph Borsodi’s Prescriptions

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by Thomas H. Greco, Jr.

Chapter Six: Usury, the Engine of Destruction

Monetary Stringency, Past and Present

Increasing Instability

The Magic of Compound Interest

Why the Federal Budget Cannot Be Balanced

Usury or Interest?

How Debt-Money Is Dysfunctional

Three Aspects of Money Dysfunction

Moral Arguments, Laws, and Practical Solutions

Keys to Transcendence