The void is our wall. I will retrace some steps and find the places where Korten made these assertions. He is a former World Bank economist who woke up and smelled the coffee, and having read his stuff, I trust him and his sources pretty implicitly.
Money represents real wealth.
A bank loans a guy a tractor so he can make a farm. A classic and perfect example. Second, in order to turn the profit he needs to pay off both the original capital loan and the interest, he's got to drive any number of competitors out of business. That a single farmer would profit enough to buy an SUV is simply unrealistic. It's the same thing we see everwhere.