RE: [SOCIAL CREDIT] reply to Vic2

2003-06-21 Thread hermann
Bill Ryan wrote: Take the case of a simple discount loan: You tender to the banker your personal note for $10,000 payable in one year. He discounts it %5 and credits your account in the amount of $9,500. He credits his own account as a businessman in the amount of $500. You are expected to pay

RE: [SOCIAL CREDIT] Two questions for Bill Ryan

2003-06-21 Thread hermann
Bill Ryan wrote: [2. Do banks lend their deposits?] Which deposits do you mean, the deposits of their customers, or the deposits they themselves have with other institutions? The deposits of their customers are the liabilities of the banks to their customers. They do not lend from their own

Re: [SOCIAL CREDIT] reply to Vic, Bill and Joe ANSWER TO EKK

2003-06-21 Thread Ekky Irion
Principal is paid to bank as bank and is cancelled. Interest is paid to bank as business and is spent." (Bill Ryan) Dear Joe, I don't disagree with anything you say below, but would place more emphasis on the distortion of purchasing power resulting from income banks/bankers

Re: [SOCIAL CREDIT] reply to Vic, Bill and Joe ANSWER TO EKK

2003-06-21 Thread ThomsonHiyu
In a message dated 6/21/03 6:27:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Principal is paid to bank as bank and is cancelled. Interest is paid to bank as business and is spent." (Bill Ryan) Dear Joe, I don't disagree with anything you say below, but would place more emphasis

RE: [SOCIAL CREDIT] reply to Vic2

2003-06-21 Thread william_b_ryan
I presume the rules of compound interest would apply if the loan was not fully paid within one year. One year has nothing to do with it. Let's say the loan is for $100,000 at 5% payable yearly over ten years. At the end of the first year you would owe one tenth of the principal plus five

RE: [SOCIAL CREDIT] Two questions for Bill Ryan

2003-06-21 Thread william_b_ryan
Question: Where does the interest paid by commercial banks to their investment depositors come from? Their own pockets, their profit-loss account. It is paid from the bank account they keep with themselves. -- Please explain! Most of the nation's money supply is credit existing in the

[SOCIAL CREDIT] Is Greider's Economic Solution Correct? (CITS Debt Watch)

2003-06-21 Thread W. Curtiss Priest
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Re: [SOCIAL CREDIT] Is Greider's Economic Solution Correct? (CITS Debt Watch)

2003-06-21 Thread Ekky Irion
Dear Curtissand other friends of Social Credit ideas, Please take the time to read the article copied below, not because it may offer that many new insights, but because it is a spark of hope that a much wider audience will be prepared to look at the need for monetary reform following the

[SOCIAL CREDIT] How can Social Crediters contact/convince the public?

2003-06-21 Thread Ekky Irion
"In his original speech, Mr Hain planned to say: "We face a position where the top 40 per cent rate of tax now catches far too many middle income employees. How can we ensure hard-working middle income families and the low paid get a better deal, except by those at the very top of the pay

Re: [SOCIAL CREDIT] reply to Vic, Bill and Joe ANSWER TO EKK

2003-06-21 Thread Victor Bridger
"And I would be interested to know from either Wally, who is, or Vic, who was, part of the Social Credit Secretariat, which as I understand it has the 'official' word on anything to do with Douglas, why a recently put out booklet "Social Credit: Some Questions Answered" calls for (page 7)