Moneychangers Part 4 ~ Beginning points toward a better way

A Conversation with Ben Zoba about Money, Part 4

In this installment — the fourth with Ben Zoba about the failures of the current money system — we discuss some models of how others have explored and successfully appropriated a new paradigm for financial exchange. He highlights, for example, the Wir credit exchange, in Switzerland, which has experienced great success; Ellen Brown‘s work, which explores a public banking system (through the government) over against the current private banking system; Thomas Greco‘s paradigm of local credit exchanges; and Anthony Migchels, in the Netherlands, and his successful experiment with a mutual credit exchange. As a modest beginning point, Ben urges listeners simply to think and learn about usury, the crippling element of disproportionate interest that keeps borrowers in servitude to the banks. This concept alone, he says, should cause Christians to pause. Through these conversations Ben hopes to open up a conversation, and explore and consider a new way toward creative possibilities for the way we “do” money.

Listen to the final podcast, Part 5, here.

Listen to Part 1 here. Listen to Part 2 here. Listen to Part 3 here.

In the final installment, Part 5, Ben will answer some questions the previous posts have generated. Leave your questions in the Comments section.