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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a $5.2 Trillion Bankruptcy

By J.W. Smith When established in the 1930s, Fannie Mae was a government sponsored, non-profit financial institution, designed to provide low-cost home loans to a nation traumatized by the Great...

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Corporate Control of Food, Facing Famine & Starvation, Solving the Current...

by J.W. Smith We would like to hear from those who can expand upon these perceptions. Early corporations burned all the spice trees they could not control so as to maintain the high price of spices....

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Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, The Federal Reserve, Henry Paulson, Ben...

By J.W. Smith Steve Kroft in Sixty Minutes did a great job describing what credit default swaps were and how they were bringing down the biggest banking houses in the nation. As explained in the above...

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An Open Letter to President Barack Obama’s Economic Recovery Team: Full and...

By J.W. Smith With the world economy still imploding the U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke pulled out all stops. The Federal Funds rate was dropped...

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Stopping this Financial Crisis in its tracks, Eliminating Poverty, and...

A short summary on causes of poverty and how society can restructure to full and equal rights for each citizen during this global financial crisis and reduce employed labor time and resource...

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Our presentation at the UNIS-UN Conference, United Nations General Assembly Hall

Our presentation to the United Nations International Schools conference in March 2009 on eliminating poverty and hunger. Slides are uploaded and made available here.

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