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From “Future of Money” (1999)The Time Compacting Machine
Four powerful human-created mega-trends converge within 10 years,and need to be resolved within 20 years
.
2005-2010
AgeWave
InformationRevolution
ClimateChange &
BiodiversityExtinction
MonetaryInstability
and as much change in consciousnessas over the past 5,000 years...
“We should expect as much change in the world overthe next 20 years as over the past 200” (Peter Russell)
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From “Future of Money” (1999)Money at Core of Time Compacting Machine
$Age
Wave
InformationRevolution
ClimateChange &
BiodiversityExtinction
MonetaryInstability
How to deal with a global financial crisis?
How to provide a livingto billions with jobless growth?
How to deal with
costs of our social
model &
longevity?
How can weresolve conflictbetween financialinterests and
long- term
ssutainability?
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Solutions withinexisting moneyparadigm are
running on “empty”
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“Never, ever, think outside the box.”
Thinking out of the Box?
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In short, our global financial system is in…
Why didn’t any policy makers, no mainstream mediaand only very few academics see the crisis coming?
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Plan
• Blind Spots
• Systemic Cause
• My Proposal
• Conclusions
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Blind Spots
• Is monetary blind spot due to– Historical Habit?– Ideological Polarization?– Academic Taboo?– Lobbycracy?
• Convergence of all the above…
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Historical HabitPatriarchal vs. Matrifocal
Monetary Systems
• Patriarchal SocietiesMonopoly of centralizingCurrency with interest
=> Great for Industrial Revolution
• But Promotes:– Booms & Bust cycles
– Concentration of wealth
– Destroys community(incompatible with gifteconomy)
• Matrifocal SocietiesDual Currency Systems
– Partriarchal one for long-distance– Other type for local exchanges
• Promotes:– Economic stability for centuries– General well-being for the “little
people”– Builds and sustains community
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Capitalism•Private Ownership•Private Initiatives
•Market
Classical(Smith, Mills…)
Austrians(Hayek, von Mises)
KeynesKeynesians
Neo-liberal(Friedman, Chicago…)
Marx-Engels
Trotskyists
Marxist-Leninists
Maoists
Communism•Public Ownership
•Governmental Initiatives•Central Planning
Ideological Polarizationuntil 1990s
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Classical(Smith, Mills…)
Austrians(Hayek, von Mises)
KeynesKeynesians
Neo-liberal(Friedman, Chicago…)
Marx-Engels
Trotskyists
Marxist-Leninists
Maoists
Ideological Blind Spot
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Capitalism•Private Ownership•Private Initiatives
•Market
Classical(Smith, Mills…)
Austrians(Hayek, von Mises)
KeynesKeynesians
Neo-liberal(Friedman, Chicago…)
Marx-Engels
Trotskyists
Marxist-Leninists
Maoists
Communism•Public Ownership
•Governmental Initiatives•Central Planning
Ideological Polarization of Cold War
Hypotheses Common to all become blind spots…
e.g.Monopoly of national currency in form of bank debt
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Blind SpotIdeological Polarization of Cold War
Communism•Public Ownership
•Governmental Initiatives•Central Planning
Capitalism•Private Ownership•Private Initiatives
•Market
Common Hypotheses to both poles become blind spots…
e.g.Monopoly of national currency in form of bank debt
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Blind SpotAcademic Taboos
Chartalist SchoolRandall Wray
MosnerEtc.
MonetaryStatus Quo
• Chartalist School shows that•Need for balanced budgets was valid only under gold standard…•Under floating exchanges, governments can spend money into existenceguaranteeing
•Full Employment•No inflation
• Difference between Nobel Prices for Economics & other five Nobelprizes?
•“Never touch the money system”
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Plan
• Blind Spots
• Systemic Cause
• My Proposal
• Conclusions
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Symptoms of Systemic Cause?
• This is the biggest but not the first such crisis– World bank identified 96 banking crises and 176 monetary crises
in recent 20 year period– Such crises are a remarkably “hardy perennial” (Kindleberger)
• 48 well documented major crashes between 1637 and 1929.
– Happened under very different regulatory systems, at verydifferent times, in different countries, at different developmentlevels…
• My claim: financial system is systemically unstable– “An accident waiting to happen” explains also why huge efforts by
very bright and dedicated people (in central banks and privatefinancial system) repeatedly fail to avoid crashes…
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Complexity Theory
• Robert Ulanowicz: 25 years of quantitative modeling ofreal-life ecosystems using complexity, information andnetwork theory
• Key finding: Sustainability of any complex networksystem is measurable with a single metric in terms ofoptimal balance involving 2 key variables “efficiency” and“resilience”– Which in turn are a function of 2 structural variables: diversity and
interconnectivity• NB: efficiency and resilience are emergent properties from
a network structure are independent from what is beingprocessed: biomass in an ecosystem, electrons in electricalcircuit, money in an economy…
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Sustainability
Towardsstagnation(Too little efficiency)
Towardsbrittleness
(Too little diversity)
Greater Efficiency (streamlining) Greater Resilience
Diversity &Interconnectivity
OptimalBalance
100%
0%
Sustainability in Natural Ecosystems
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Sustainability
Towardsstagnation(Too little efficiency)
Towardsbrittleness
(Too little diversity)
Greater Efficiency (streamlining) Greater Resilience
Diversity & Interconnectivity
Window of Viability
OptimalBalance
100%
0%
Real-life sustainable ecosystems
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Sustainability
Towards brittleness(Too little diversity)
Greater Efficiency (streamlining) Greater Resilience
Diversity & Interconnectivity
Optimal Balance
100%
0%
Window of Viability
Currentoperation offinancial system
Application to Monetary System
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Sustainability
Towards brittleness(Too little diversity)
Diversity & Interconnectivity
Optimal Balance
100%
0%
Window of Viability
CollapseofFinancialsystem
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Plan
• Blind Spots
• Systemic Cause
• My Proposal
• Conclusions
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Sustainability
Effect ofcomplementary
Currencies
Greater Efficiency (streamlining) Greater Resilience
Diversity & Interconnectivity
Optimal Balance
100%
0%
Window of Viability
Systemic Solution
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Systemic Solution
• Fact: monopolies of official currencies as mediumof exchange have already died– Hundreds of thousands commercial loyalty currencies
(e.g. miles, “points Carrefour”, etc.)– 5000 social purpose complementary currencies
operational
– They all are linking unmet needs with unused resources
• Part of worldwide evolution from industrial toinformation development model
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Number of Social Purpose Complementary Currencies
USA + Canada
UK
Benelux
Germany +Austria
Other Europe
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Argentina
Elsewhere
Japan
Other Europe
Italy
Germany +AustriaFrance
Benelux
UK
Australia
New Zealand
USA + Canada
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One Example: Regios in Germany
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http://www.ithacahours.org/
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Fureai Kippu“Caring Relationships Tickets” in Japan
478 systems operational in Japan2 national electronic clearing-houses
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My Own Proposals (1)Social Purpose Currencies
• Introduce integrated payment system for an ecology ofsocial purpose currencies
• Flanders pilot project on-going in Ghent, Belgium– Objectives:
• Induce desirable behavior change while respecting democratic process• Obtain more social results with same Euro budget
– 3-5 social purpose currencies with Belgian ID card + mobile phone• Elderly care currency• Carbon-reducing currency• Learning currency
– Pilot operational in 2010– Generalization to Flanders in 2011-12
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My Own Proposal (2)B2B currency: Commercial Credit Circuits (C3)
• Objective: Systemically counteracts unemploymentexplosion by providing innovative bridge financing forSmall and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
• Problem: SMEs are pressured to pay quickly (e.g. 30 days)But get paid slowly (e.g. 90 days)Banks uninterested in providing bridge financing
• Solution: Invoices are insured before being accepted in C3payment system, until payments due in conventionalnational currency either by issuer or by insurance company
• Each recipient of a C3 has two options:– Exchange into conventional national currency at a cost– Pay own suppliers without cost
• Operational in Uruguay and Brazil, approved by CentralBank and IDB.
• Accepted in payment of all taxes and services bygovernment in Uruguay.
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C3 Basic Model
GovernmentalEntities
Producers Services
Insurance Bank
Exchanges to Euros
EurosEuros
C3Network
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C3Network
GovernmentalServices
Producers Services
Insurance Bank
EurosC3 with acceptance in taxes
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The Choice
Sticking to MonetaryStatus Quo
Or embracingInformation Age Money
NB: Complementary Currencies are now whereOpen Source software and Microfinance were 10 years ago…
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Plan
• Blind Spots
• Systemic Cause
• My Proposal
• Conclusions
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A Choice to Make for Europe
Sticking to MonetaryStatus Quo
Or embracingInformation Age Money
NB: Complementary Currencies are now whereOpen Source software and Microfinance were 10 years ago…
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Thank You!
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Follow up
• www.lietaer.com– White Paper on Options for Managing Systemic
Banking Crises– C3 Proposal.– Technical Documents backing this approach
• B. Lietaer “Future of Money”• B. Lietaer “Mysterium Geld” for historical
evidence• Email contact: [email protected]
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Options for Managing Banking Crises
Approach Bankers Taxpayers/Central
Governments
LocalGovernments
2d Wave Systemic
Cause
ConventionalNationalizing
Problem Assets
Preferred
Most Expensive
(no leverage) Unaddressed delayed Unaddressed
Nationalizing
BanksEquity Dilution
10x leverage Unaddressed delayed Unaddressed
Unconventional
Nationalizing
Money Creation End of currentbusiness model
LT solution (butinflation?)
Unaddressed Governments spendmoney into existence
Unaddressed
ComplementaryCurrencies End of
monopoly ofmoney creation
‘LT solution LT & ST
solutionLT & STsolution
SystemicSolution
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Role of EU in the Crisis?
• Risk of Unraveling of EU economic integration during thiscrisis…– Banks were saved by nation-states with EU playing only secondary
coordination role– Idem with automobile industry (and upcoming next big business
sectors: steel?)
• EU role in reducing job crisis through SMEs?– EU level institution makes offer to Regions to provide 1/3 of invoice
guarantee at condition to keep emergency systems compatible– Regions provide second 1/3– Private insurance companies final 1/3
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Relevance
• Important because monetary system is the meta-systemcontrolling all other systems in our society– Business
– Governments
– Academics
– Majority of all individual activities
• “If Americans understood money and banking, therewould be a revolution the next day.” Henry Ford
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Why Save the Banks?
• Lesson from the 1930s: “2d Wave” Crisis– When many banks bankrupt at the same time they
trigger a “2d Wave” recession in the “real economy”– Reason: banks stop financing “real economy”
• Banks have monopoly of issuing legal tender=> Strangulation of all other economic sectors
• Consequence: “Moral Hasard”:– “Too Big to Fail” banks take high risks– If profitable => private winnings– If failed => governments will bail them out…
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US Taxpayer’s Commitments…So Far
• Total commitment for financial bailout 2008: $4.616 trillion dollars.
Louisiana Purchase: Cost: $15 million, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $21billionMarshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $115.3billionNASA: Cost: $416.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $851.2 billionRace to the Moon: Cost: $36.4 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $237billionS&L Crisis: Cost: $153 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $256 billionKorean War: Cost: $54 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $454 billionThe New Deal: Cost: $32 billion (Est), Inflation Adjusted Cost: $500billion •Invasion of Iraq: Cost: $551b, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $597 billionVietnam War: Cost: $111 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $698 billion
TOTAL: $3.92 trillion
• Costs of World War II borne by the US is the only example of a comparablecost: $288 billion, inflation adjusted $3.6 trillion.
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European GovernmentalGuarantees
• Guarantees provided by European governments are also without precedent• Assets of 3 largest banks in the following countries (as % of GDP):
– Germany 130%– Italy 142%– Portugal 147%– Spain 218%– Ireland 253%– France 257%– UK 317%– Netherlands 409% (2 biggest banks)
– Belgium-Luxemburg 528%– Switzerland 773% (2 biggest banks)
– Iceland 1,079% (first country to go bankrupt…)
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Role of EU in the Crisis?
• Risk of Unraveling of EU economic integration during thiscrisis…– Banks were saved by nation-states with EU playing only secondary
coordination role– Idem with automobile industry (and upcoming next big business
sectors: steel?)
• EU role in reducing job crisis through SMEs?– EU level institution makes offer to Regions to provide 1/3 of invoice
guarantee at condition to keep emergency systems compatible– Regions provide second 1/3– Private insurance companies final 1/3
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My Proposal
• While banks can’t fulfill their funding role atappropriate levels, have local and states acceptpartial payment of taxes in selective and robustcomplementary currencies– Start with robust B2B currencies (because best
auditable)– Implement WIR type systems…
• Complementary currencies are useful to solveproblems even without any crisis– Over time, local and state governments can encourage
them in other ways than acceptance in taxes in thefuture
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Systemic Solution #2Ending Monopoly of Bank-debt money
• Governments (central and/or local) accept in partialpayment of taxes carefully selected complementarycurrencies (other than bank-debt money).– Complementary currencies could be those created by local
governments, or by corporations (b2b such as WIR, Terra), or evenlocal non profits (social purpose currencies).
– Very flexible (choice of currency, time, percent accepted, etc.)– Example of partial precedent: Russia accepted payment of taxes in
copper during rubble crisis.• Doesn’t end privilege of bank-debt money as legal tender,
only temporarily their monopoly...– Doesn’t end the banks’ business model– Complementary currency management can in fact be a new
banking service• Criticism: less efficient…but that is exactly what is needed
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The Long View
202020001950
Cold War
(50 years)
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The Long View
2020200019501750
Industrial Age
(250 years)Cold War
(50 years)
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The Long View
2020200019501750
1500 AD Modernist(500 years)
3000BC
Patriarchal(5000 years)
500BC Hyper-Rationalist(2500 years)
Industrial Age
(250 years)Cold War
(50 years)
Longer waves embrace, direct and feed shorter ones…
What ties these “waves” to today’s crisis?
Answer: “Patriarchal Money System”
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The Long View
2020200019501750
1500 AD Modernist(500 years)
3000BC
Patriarchal(5000 years)
500BC Hyper-Rationalist(2500 years)
Industrial Age
(250 years)Cold War
(50 years)
Planetary WisdomCivilization
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Conclusions
• Re-regulation is necessary and will be oneverybody’s agenda, but it can only make suchcrises less frequent, not eliminate them.
• We can do better than in the 1930s– but only if we consider systemic options…
• The systemic option of complementary currency is– within the political decision power of local and state
governments
– An acceptable compromise for banking system?