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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aBrown, Ellen Hodgson.
245 10 $aWeb of debt :$bthe shocking truth about our money system and how we can break free /$cEllen Hodgson Brown.
250 $a3rd ed., rev. and expanded.
260 $aBaton Rouge, La. :$bThird Millennium Press,$c2008.
300 $axiv, 530 pages ;$c23 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 487-520) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : captured by the debt spider -- section I. The yellow brick road : from gold to Federal Reserve notes (1. Lessons from the Wizard of Oz -- 2. Behind the curtain : the Federal Reserve and the federal debt -- 3. Experiments in Utopia : Colonial paper money as legal tender -- 4. How the government was persuaded to borrow its own money -- 5. From matriarchies of abundance to patriarchies of debt -- 6. Pulling the strings of the king : the moneylenders take England -- 7. While Congress dozes in the poppy fields : Jefferson and Jackson sound the alarm -- 8. Scarecrow with a brain : Lincoln foils the bankers -- 9. Lincoln loses the battle with the masters of European finance -- 10. The great humbug : the gold standard and the straw man of inflation) -- section II. The bankers capture the money machine (11. No place like home : fighting for the family farm -- 12. Talking heads and invisible hands : the secret government -- 13. Witches' coven : the Jekyll Island affair and the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 -- 14. Harnessing the lion : the federal income tax -- 15. Reaping the whirlwind : the Great Depression -- 16. Oiling the rusted joints of the economy : Roosevelt, Keynes and the New Deal -- 17. Wright Patman exposes the money machine -- 18. A look inside the Fed's playbook : "Modern money mechanics" -- 19. Bear raids and short sales : devouring capital markets -- 20. Hedge funds and derivatives : a horse of a different color) -- section III. Enslaved by debt : the bankers' net spreads over the globe (21. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road : from gold reserve to petrodollars -- 22. The tequila trap : the real story behind the illegal alien invasion -- 23. Freeing the yellow winkies : the greenback system flourishes abroad -- 24. Sneering at doom : Germany finances a war without money -- 25. Another look at the inflation humbug : some "textbook" hyperinflations revisited -- 26. Poppy fields opium wars and Asian tigers -- 27. Waking the sleeping giant : Lincoln's greenback system comes to China -- 28. Recovering the jewel of the British empire : a people's movement takes back India)
505 0 $aSection IV. The debt spider captures America (29. Breaking the back of the tin man : debt serfdom for American workers -- 30. The lure in the consumer debt trap : the illusion of home ownership -- 31. The perfect financial storm -- 32. In the eye of the cyclone : how the derivatives crisis has gridlocked the banking system -- 33. Maintaing the illusion : rigging financial markets -- 34. Meltdown : the secret bankruptcy of the banks) -- section V. The magic slippers : taking back the money power (35. Stepping from scarcity into technicolor abundance -- 36. The community currency movement : sidestepping the debt web with "parallel" currencies -- 37. The money question : goldbugs and greenbacks debate -- 38. The federal debt : a case of disorganized thinking -- 39. Liquidating the federal debt without causing inflation -- 40. "Helicopter" money : the Fed's new hot air balloon) -- section VI. Vanquishing the debt spider : a banking system that serves the people (41. Restoring national sovereignty with a truly national banking system -- 42. The question of interest : Ben Franklin solves the impossible contract problem -- 43. Bailout, buyout, or corporate takeover? : beating the robber barons at their own game -- 44. The quick fix : government that pays for itself -- 45. Government with heart : solving the problem of Third World debt -- 46. Building a bridge : toward a new Bretton Woods -- 47. Over the rainbow : government without taxes or debt) -- Afterword : the collapse of a 300 year Ponzi scheme -- Postscript : February 2008 : the bubble bursts.
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