Скачать или смотреть 2007 AMI Conf. Opening with Stephen Zarlenga

In this impassioned keynote, AMI co-founder Stephen Zarlenga outlines the moral and existential stakes of monetary reform. He warns that humanity is “living on borrowed time” due to a corrupt money system controlled by private bankers, not public institutions. Zarlenga critiques government neglect of infrastructure, health care, and environmental threats while connecting these failings to the privatization of money creation. Drawing on Aristotle and historical monetary thinkers, he defines money as a public legal power—not a commodity or credit—and urges a move toward publicly created fiat money to serve the general welfare. The talk ends with a rallying call: reform is both possible and urgently necessary to avoid systemic collapse and secure a just, humane future.