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2VR-14-15One of Vermont’s most visionary economists and thinkers, Gary Flomenhoft, shares his vision for transforming Vermont from a “banana republic” to a “sovereign commonwealth” in this GREEN MOUNTAIN NOISE exclusive featured in our 2015 issue. Essential reading for anyone interested in what true independence looks, smells, and feel like. Read more in our Most Likely To Secede book, as well – essential blueprints for a second Vermont republic.

June 11, 2015
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Vermont: From “Banana Republic” to “Sovereign Commonwealth”

One of Vermont’s most visionary economists and thinkers, Gary Flomenhoft, shares his vision for transforming Vermont from a “banana republic” to a “sovereign commonwealth” in this […]
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December 17, 2014
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Bail-In and the Financial Stability Board: The Global Bankers’ Coup, by Ellen Brown (FUNNY MONEY)

On December 11, 2014, the US House passed a bill repealing the Dodd-Frank requirement that risky derivatives be pushed into big-bank subsidiaries, leaving our deposits and […]
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December 17, 2014
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r Credits: Mutual Credit for Vermont’s Common Good (RADIO PROGRAM/$$)

Jim Hogue’s WGDR radio program discusses the nature of money, mutual credit for the common good, and, more specifically, the concept of  r Credits. This is part […]
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May 9, 2011
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Sovereignty and the Money Problem: A New Beginning

In the last several decades many independence movements around the world have been successful and the number of sovereign nations has vastly increased. Have these movements really achieved what they wanted? Or is the goal of political independence a kind of escape valve for aspirations that seek something deeper, something more substantial, than the symbols and trappings of the sovereign state?
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May 9, 2010
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The Buck Slows Here: Slow Me the Money, Vermont

We must bring money back down to earth. It might have sounded far-fetched even a year ago. But today, surrounded by the politics of a trillion-dollar bailout, it has a different ring. It has the ring of common sense in a world that is coming to real­ize that there is such a thing as intermediation that is too complex and money that is too fast. There is such a thing as money that is too fast.
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September 9, 2006
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Money and Liberty

The U.S. monetary system has been a scandal for a long time; whether it can continue much longer without intolerable social, political, and ecological consequences is an open question. Yet most Americans don’t have a clue about it. “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system,” Henry Ford said, “for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
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