“Our [American] money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at the wheel. The clever guy will take a half hour to have an accident, and the stupid guy will take ten minutes.” IfsMatterGuyHoursHalfMinutesStupidTenAccidentsCleverWheelsHalf HoursVery CleverStupid Guy Author:Bernard Lietaer
“When the banks create the money, they don't create the interest. They send you into the world to compete with everybody else to get the second $100,000 that never was created and bring it back to them. So if we're in a world with zero-growth population, goods, services, and money, the problem would be obvious.” IfsWorldProblemWould BeGrowthInterestPopulationObviousGoodsZero Author:Bernard Lietaer