The Light Yoke: debunking banking
Ken Yeomans' latest book.
"THE LIGHT YOKE"
Debunking banking - How to remove the heavy yoke of bank debt with
dividend payments to all citizens.
Introduction and book description.
The Light Yoke debunks the major myths of banking and
reveals a solution to the debt crisis that is literally in almost
everyone’s best interests.
The Light Yoke shows how to remove the heavy yoke of bank debt by making
dividend payments to all citizens and expanding consumer subsidies. The
analysis includes published information from the USA and the Reserve
Bank of Australia plus current population figures with web links.
The cost burden of servicing bank debt becomes a heavy
yoke on all societies that accept commercial trading bank credit as a
valid addition to their money supply. In 1978 the Bank of New South
Wales revealingly published that: "All money is a debt of the banking
system.” In other words, the commercial trading banks create and issue
all money. They claim this new money as their own and lend it at
interest to borrowers. We are in effect using a rented money supply and
under current practices, there can be no end to the accumulating debt.
Currently there are only three sources of money with
which to repay bank debt. These are new bank loans, current deposits and
cash.
Whilst it is normal to use credit from someone’s new bank loan to repay
existing bank debts, new bank loans automatically create a matching
debt, which grows with interest.
Therefore, it is impossible for bank issued credit to reduce total bank
debt and so commercial trading banks cannot solve the debt crisis.
We need money to repay and thus cancel bank debt, without
borrowing more money. Now to some, it appears that foreign income
achieves this, because foreign income results in additional deposits and
yet no additional local debt. Foreign investment is touted as being good
for the country. The economic effect foreign income is that Australian
dollars are issued without increasing local debt. This fact alone helps
explain the well-publicised enthusiasm by government and others about
the benefits of exports, tourists and foreign investment. However,
foreign income can only be a temporary fix.
A lasting solution requires a better understanding of our situation.
Government can restrict the further creation of credit by the commercial
trading banks but the result is similar to a banker-imposed credit
squeeze. Without the constant issue of new credit, only current deposits
and cash remain to repay existing bank debts. The result will be a
credit squeeze crisis.
To solve the debt crisis and avoid a credit squeeze
crisis, another supply of credit money needs to be issued that refunds
into the community the money cancelled by the repayment of bank debt.
Whilst this is not technically difficult, the question of ownership and
control of the new money should be of vital concern to every citizen.
A simple and undeniably fair way to maintain a stable
money supply (money stock) whilst at the same time paying down
existing bank debt will be to give to all citizens a fair share of new
money as it is issued.
The rate of issue and distribution of new money should
match the reduction rate of total bank debt. In effect, the new money
will replace bank issued credit, which will be phased out of
circulation. The additional supply of money will be indistinguishable
from bank issued credit. Some of the new money should also fund consumer
subsidies on local products. Consumer subsidies make local products cost
less and so be more competitive against the flood of imports from low
wage and slave wage states or from countries that subsidize exports.
Issuing money that is debt free, interest free and tax
free to all citizens will avert any contraction in the economy during
the ongoing process of repayment and thus cancellation of bank debts.
In Australia, Reserve Bank figures, help show that the
money supply and associated bank debts are around $60,000 per person. In
other words, about $60,000 is the legitimate equal share of new money
that all citizens should be credited, during the onging process of
repaying total bank issued credit/debt pseudo money.
This book reveals in simple terms that dividends paid to
all citizens and consumer subsidies are fair and democratic ways to
decentralize the corrupting power of money and transform the heavy yoke
of bank debt into the light yoke of economic freedom and a democratized
money supply.
Product Details
Paperback: 106 pages.
Publisher: Keyline Designs
www.keyline.com.au (March 23, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0980841100
ISBN-13: 978-0980841107
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.7 ounces
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