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People's Power: The Power of Money

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  • Kees, De KONING

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Money can create jobs and thereby incomes for individual households, but money can equally destroy jobs and income. Added values can be created with the assets which are based on the savings levels -the net worth of individual households- but the "money managers": a government, a central bank, banks and (international) bureaucrats can also create losses to the savings level. This dilemma should be at the heart of economic thinking. For instance in the U.S in 2006 a dollar saved and used for a home mortgage loan only returned 69 cents in home value increase. In 2007 a dollar saved and used in the same way lost 2.5 dollars. Banks moved the goalposts from relying on the income of individual households to wanting their money back out of the assets -the homes-. Individual households were never asked. The effects were that all 132 million home owners were affected rather than the 5.3 million doubtful debtors. This paper sets out the causes of such money destruction. It also explains that money can act in a positive manner to repair the damage done. Banking reforms, quantitative strenghthening as opposed to QE, economic easing and changing the focus of national accounting away from economic growth to Country Profit -the increase/decrease in the net worth of individual households are discussed.

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  • Kees, De KONING, 2013. "People's Power: The Power of Money," MPRA Paper 43735, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:43735
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    1. De Koning, Kees, 2013. "The United Kingdom: Economic Growth, a Draft Master Plan," MPRA Paper 44369, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    Keywords

    Balance sheet of households; money power; money crisis; jobs and savings; ownership of savings; income lending and asset based lending; securitisation; savings behaviour; Quantitative easing and strengthening; bank reforms; economic easing; country profit;
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    JEL classification:

    • E0 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
    • E61 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination

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