Larry Kotlikoff - The Big Con – Reassessing the “Great” Recession and its “Fix”
Channel: Monetative TV
Date: 16/12/2018

Kotlikoff has extensively studied the financial and monetary system and how the financial crisis of 2007 occured. Learn about his explanation of the great financial crisis and how another crisis can be prevented in this video and on the website: http://conference2018.monetative.de/ 

Speech: "Credit creation, asset prices and banking crises: What’s the link?" at the Conference "The Future of Money - 10 Years after Lehman and Nakamoto" by Prof. Dr. Steve Keen.

Laurence Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a NY Times Best Selling author and an active columnist. In 2014, he was named by The Economist as one of the world's 25 most influential economists. He was formerly on President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers and ran as a write-in candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 election. Kotlikoff is author or co-author of 19 books and hundreds of professional journal articles.

The conference was jointly organized by the German NGO Monetative e.V. and the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center. It was supported by the International Movement for Monetary Reform

Monetative e.V.:
Monetative is a not-for-profit NGO. It was founded in 2012 as a think tank and campaigning organization. It has more than 160 members, many of  whom work or carry out research in the field of monetary systems. The aim of Monetative is to inform society, academics and politicians how the current money system works and why the power of commercial banks to create money systematically produces financial crises. As an alternative money system, Monetative campaigns for a „Vollgeld“- or „Sovereign Money“-System.

https://www.monetative.de/ | Berlin, Germany

Frankfurt School Blockchin Center
The Frankfurt School Blockchain Center is a think tank and research center which investigates the implications of blockchain technology for companies and their business models. Apart from the development of prototypes, it serves as a platform for managers, startups and technology and industry experts to share knowledge and best practices. The Blockchain Center also provides new research impulses and develops training for students and executives. It focuses on banking, mobility, “Industry 4.0” and the energy sector. 

http://www.fs-blockchain.de/ | Frankfurt, Germany

International Movement for Monetary Reform (IMMR)
The IMMR is an international coalition of nonprofit organisations from across the world, campaigning for a monetary system that serves society. We maintain a very clear and specific aim, namely to change the way money is created and allocated, but we are not dogmatic about the way our proposal is implemented as the details will vary from country to country. To serve this goal, the IMMR supports and connects various national member organisations to share ideas, discuss research and exchange best practices.

Read more: https://internationalmoneyreform.org