The Occupy Card The Occupy Card will provide the basic financial services that people need and use on a daily basis without the cost, or the balances required for a regular bank account.The Occupy Card will be an individual’s debit card, a savings facility, and a “virtual checkbook” all rolled into one easy-to-use package: a “bank on a card”. The Occupy Card is an innovative financial product that everyone can use. There will be no upfront cost. The card will be 99c per month. This card will directly tackle the concerns of the unbanked and the underbanked. The Occupy Card will be a highly useful, high-quality product, based on an innovative concept and platform. Who is Behind the OccupyCard? Founding Board The Occupy Money Cooperative is governed by a board of directors who will guide the development of the Coop in its early days. Carne Ross Carne is a former British diplomat who founded and now runs the non-profit diplomatic advisory group,Independent Diplomat. Robert Hockett Paul Ferris Christian Brammer
The End of Money | Witte de With Christodoulos Panayiotou, 2008, (2008) Shredded money 600 (diameter) x 240 (height) cm Courtesy of the artist & Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul Installation photo Witte de With 2011: Bob Goedewaagen Opening: Saturday 21 May 2011 (6 – 9 pm) Performance by Goldin+Senneby at 7 pm Film Screening: Sunday 26 June 2011 (12 – 6 pm) The End of Money is a group exhibition about time and value. What limits does the economy impose on our collective imagination, and how is the collective imagination responsible for the current economy? Time, Benjamin Franklin famously said, is money. Artists Alexander Apóstol; Pierre Bismuth; Peter Fischli & David Weiss; Zachary Formwalt; Goldin+Senneby; Hadley+Maxwell; Toril Johannessen; Vishal Jugdeo; Agnieszka Kurant; Matts Leiderstam; Maha Maamoun; Christodoulos Panayiotou; Lili Reynaud-Dewar; Tomás Saraceno; Tonel; Vangelis Vlahos; and Lawrence Weiner. Curated by Juan A. Publication The accompanying digital publication, edited by Juan A. About the participants
alternative banking group - The Daily Occupation Mother Jones has an article about the Alternative Banking Group, an arm of the Occupy Wall Street protests that has received support from the New York GA. In addition to helping OWS propose meaningful reforms and navigate the ins and outs of financial agencies, they also provide education and outreach. The article follows Cathy O’Neil of the group in particular, giving a look into her mindset and what led her to join OWS: After studying number theory at Harvard and completing a mathematics post-doc at MIT, [O'Neil] joined D.E. Shaw in 2007, where her job was to use mathematical reasoning and statistical modeling to predict movements in the market. [...] In May 2009 she quit and went to work for Risk Metrics, a risk management consultancy for banks and hedge funds, where she hoped to use her skills more constructively, perhaps to help keep the financial system from running off another cliff. (Emphasis editor’s.)
Introduction | QOIN Money is a social construct, a human invention. We can redesign it to fulfil our needs. What is conventional money? Money is not a given. What are community currencies? Since money is man made, it can be reinvented to meet specific objectives within any kind of community, region or economic sector. stimulate local economic development, by localising production and consumption,build an active civil society,stimulate voluntary work,reduce costs to healthcare system,encourage sustainable consumption and improve waste separation. An ecosystem of community currencies Community currencies can be designed and executed in a many different ways. Social Currencies – time based currencies that value everyone’s contribution equally. Deepen your understanding of Community Currencies by getting in touch.
Meet the Financial Wizards Working With Occupy Wall Street Cathy O'Neil, a participant in the Alternative Banking GroupJosh Harkinson High up in a Manhattan conference room on Sunday, a group of investment gurus discussed Occupy Wall Street. Should they support a set of tough-sounding financial reforms just proposed on the campaign trail by presidential candidate Jon Huntsman? Or was it reasonable to demand even deeper reforms? As unlikely as it may have seemed when protesters first descended on New York's financial center this fall, an increasing number of Wall Street insiders are now returning the favor, you might say, by occupying Occupy Wall Street. "What I want is to influence the conversation," says O'Neil, who worked for two years with Lawrence Summers, the former US treasury secretary, at the hedge fund D.E. Founded in early October by former British diplomat Carne Ross, the 60-person Alternative Banking Group has become a repository for OWS-friendly financial insiders. The Alternative Banking Group's meetings can get contentious.
Passengers on Beijing subway pay with plastic bottles Contact us Passengers on Beijing subway pay with plastic bottles Posted on August 11, 2013 by elma ‹ What to Buy Organic Have a mosquito problem??? Internet Financial EXchange (IFEX) Welcome - New Currency Frontiers Zerocoin open source electronic cash — opencoin Community Currencies in Action Google once considered issuing currency February 28, 2012, 1:52 PM — Google once considered issuing its own currency, to be called Google Bucks, company Chairman Eric Schmidt said on stage in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress Tuesday. At the end of his keynote speech, Schmidt hit on a wide array of topics in response to audience questions. "We've had various proposals to have our own currency we were going to call Google Bucks," Schmidt said. The idea was to implement a "peer-to-peer money" system. However, Google discovered that the concept is illegal in most areas, he said. He also hinted that Google might be preparing for a battle in China once its acquisition of Motorola is complete. Google is still waiting for some government approvals of its proposed acquisition of Motorola.
Modernising Money: Why Our Monetary System is Broken, and How We Fix It Book Description Review "Money is a social invention, indeed among the most important of all social inventions. At present the right to create money has been handed over to the private businesses we call banks. - Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times "Modernising Money is not just the clearest exposition of the monetary economy available today, it offers realistic pragmatic responses to the most urgent challenge of our time: how to devise a financial system fit for purpose - Tim Jackson, author of 'Prosperity Without Growth: economics for a finite planet "Modernising Money unveils how the present money system really works, why it doesn't work well, and how it ought to work to the benefit of all." - Prof. "Modernising Money"sets out the authors' solution to the banking quandary with great clarity. - Prof Vicky Chick, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University College London - James Robertson, author of 'Future Money: Breakdown or Breakthrough?' Description Summary