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- Arquitectura y operaciones de intercambio comercial: una conversación con Chip Davis y Charlie Davis
- Dinero, Poder, Democracia, y Guerra
- El fin del dinero y el futuro de la civilización
- El fin del dinero y la liberación del intercambio. Presentación en la Conferencia de Dinar de Oro 2007, Malasia
- La metamorfosis
- La Revolución del Intercambio: LLEVANDO EL COMERCIO SIN DINERO A UN NUEVO NIVEL
- Libertad de expresión contra las cuerdas.
- Liquidez y monetización: una monografía
- Reclamando el crédito como bien común
- Recuperando el crédito de los comunes. Rumbo a una Sociedad Mariposa.
- Reinventando el Dinero
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My Audio-visual presentations
- 2006-02 How to Build Healthy Community Economies, Auroville, India
- 2006-02 How to Build Healthy Community Economies, Auroville, India–Q&A
- 2006-Auroville. Answers to critical questions
- 2007 Auroville-Community and Economy: A rational approach to sustainability, harmony, and prosperity
- 2007-05 Reinventing Money, Sebastopol, CA
- 2007-Presentation at the Gold Dinar Conference-The End of Money and the Liberation of Exchange
- 2009-05-05 The End of Money and the Future of Civilization-IONS
- 2009-08 The End of Money, Tucson
- 2009-08-24 Basic Business Issues for Enabling Local Exchange, Tucson
- 2009-10 Panel Sessions at the Economics of Peace conference
- 2009-10 presentation -The Economics of Peace, Justice and Sustainability
- 2009-11 My presentations at the Conference on Michigan’s Future Energy, Economy & Environment (files 140 and 141, and 595 and 596, respectively)
- 2009-11 The End of Money and the Future of Civilization
- 2009-Cutting Edge Capital Raising for Small Business
- 2010 The Credit Commons
- 2011 FPA Presentation-Financial Planning in the Emerging Butterfly Economy
- 2011 FPA Presentation-Financial Planning in the Emerging Butterfly Economy-Movie with narrative
- 2011 The Butterfly Economy-Movie
- 2011-11. The Emerging Butterfly Society – Thomas Greco
- 2012-A New Paradigm in Exchange and Finance: The pathway to peace, justice, freedom, and a dignified life for all
- 2013-06 Value Measurement Discussion-Improved
- 2013-IRTA Panel
- 2014-10-The Evolution of Money and its Potential to Improve Humanity
- 2014-10-The FUTURE of VALUE EXCHANGE
- 2014-Money, Power, Democracy, and War
- 2015-The Exchange Revolution. Athens workshop presentation
- 2016-10 A World Without Money and Interest: A pathway toward social justice and economic equity
- 2017 Disruptive Technologies Making Money Obsolete
- 2020 The Exchange Revolution: taking moneyless exchange to a new level
- 2020-04 A Conversation about the Dysfunctions of Money, and the Need for Decentralized Exchange Alternatives
- 2020-09 Get Ready to Play in the Butterfly Economy
- 2020-09 What if things had gone differently?
- 2021-05&06 Webinar series: Our Money System – What’s Wrong with it and How to Fix it
- 2021-07 Solar Dollars–Empowering Communities While Powering Communities With Renewable Energy
- 2021-11 Transcending the present political money system–the urgent need and the way to do it.
- 2021-11 Transcending… Q&A
- 2022-09 Private and complementary currency systems: purposes, principles, practices, and performance
- Just Cooperate–What we can learn from nature
- My 2 Minute “Elevator Speech” About Solving the Money Problem
- There once was a river, …an allagorical tale
My Interviews
- 2003-06-26 Democratizing Money
- 2006 (March)-Interview by Sebastian Cortes at Auroville, India
- 2009 (April) Thomas Greco's Interview by Kim Hill of Radio New Zealand.
- 2009 Interview on Green Planet Radio, New Zealand.
- 2009 Interview on New Dimensions Radio–Toward a Credit Commons
- 2009 Interview on New Dimensions Radio: Investing in the Bank of You and Me
- 2009-06 Interview on The Power Hour with Joyce Riley
- 2009-07 interview featuring Thomas Greco and Annette Riggs on The Power Hour with Joyce Riley
- 2009-10 Interview with Daniel Pinchbeck (4 parts)
- 2009-10 Thomas Greco interview on Conscious Media Network
- 2009-11-05 Thomas Greco Interview on KBCS, One World Report.
- 2010 (June) Interview of Thomas Greco by Ken Rose, KOWS
- 2010 (March) interview, Irish Side of the Moon
- 2011 (June) Interview by KMO for C-Realm Podcast
- 2011 Interview by Frank Touby, The Bulletin, Toronto
- 2011 Interview by Hugh Reilly, ThatChannel, Toronto
- 2012 – The End of Money as We Know It and the Future of Civilization. Interview by Jay Taylor
- 2013 Award winning documentary filmmaker, Marie-Monique Robin, interviews Thomas Greco
- 2013-The Debt Growth Imperative. Interview with Community Currencies in Action
- 2013-Transformational Restructuring. An interview for Talkin' Business, Maastricht University
- 2014-12 Interview on Bartertown Radio
- 2015-08-13-The changing picture in complementary currencies
- 2017-03-15 interview on Primo Nutmeg podcast #121
- 2019-02. Why the future of money is mutual credit (and not Bitcoin)
- 2019-10 interview on Ellen Brown's podcast, It's Our Money
- 2020-10 My interview with Patricia Cori on Beyond the Matrix
- 2021-04 Discussion with Intercoin founder Greg Magarshak
- 2021-05 — Conversation with Edgar Cahn, Tim Jenkin, et al
- 2021-12-30 Interview on It's Our Money with Ellen Brown
- 2023-04 My interview with Alasdair Lord, the "Renaissance Yorkshireman"
- 2023-05 My conversation with Emily Peyton and Jim Hoag
My sites
Other Resources
Recommended Sites
- * News and Information Sources-My Favorites on the State of the World
- A New Approach to Freedom
- Barter News Weekly
- Bartertown Radio
- Cliff’s Edge Signalling Company
- Community Exchange System-CES
- Community Way
- Complementary Currency Resource Center
- Complementary Currency Systems presented by Richard Logie
- Econ Talk interviews
- Ethical Markets
- Geopolitics-recommended authors, commentators, and sources
- Henry C K Liu
- Hidden History Center
- Ideas for an Alternative Monetary Future
- Inspired Constitution
- IRTA-International Reciprocal Trade Association
- Low Impact
- MindDetox–Rafael Zambrana's Informative Blog
- Moneeey
- Monetary freedom bibliography of John Zube
- Monetary Realism
- Money as Debt
- National Inflation Association
- New Currency Frontiers
- Nuet Nodes
- Open Credit Network
- Open Money Project
- Other Networks
- Panarchy
- Peer-to-Peer Foundation
- Primo Nutmeg Podcasts
- Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy
- Public Banking Institute
- Ratical Earth Journal
- Richard C. Cook
- RT.COM
- The Essence of Money-Animation by Paul Grignon
- The Henry George Academy
- The Henry George Institute
- The MetaCurrency Project
- The Monetary Future
- The Money Fix
- The Money Masters: How International Bankers Gained Control of America
- Walter Zander
Research and Reviews
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Recent Posts
Resources
- 2009-10 Interview of Thomas H. Greco by Daniel Pinchbeck
- 2019 September Newsletter
- 2020-10-07 My Interview with Patricia Cori on Beyond the Matrix
- 2021-12-30 Interview on It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown
- 2023 April Newsletter — The state of the world, and what’s being done about it.
- 2023 Winter Newsletter–Answers to the Money Problem, and the state of the World
- A Brief Statement of The Valun Private Enterprise Money System of E. C. Riegel
- A Draft Manifesto of Monetary and Financial Rights and Liberties
- A World Without Money and Interest: A pathway toward social justice and economic equity
- About
- Alternative History — What If?
- APPENDIX B An Objective Composite Standard Measure of Value
- Beyond Money Podcast
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- Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the end of money as we’ve known it
- Case Studies
- Commercial Trade Exchange Architecture and Operations—A Conversation with Chip Davis and Charlie Davis by Thomas H. Greco, Jr.
- Community Currencies — Questions and Answers
- Confronting the power elite
- El Fin del Dinero y el Futuro de la Civilización
- Excerpts
- Financing alternatives
- Go, set, get ready for your mark!
- Greco Keynote at IRTA – September 2006
- How to Fix Money, Banking, and the Economy, and Usher in a New Convivial Civilization
- Introduction to free money and free banking
- Ivan Illich and the Coming Cultural Revolution
- Library
- Money Freedom Declaration of E. C. Riegel
- Monnaies Locales, French Translation of my book, New Money for Healthy Communities
- Mutual Credit: Questions & Answers
- My Books, Monographs & Articles
- A Model Membership Agreement for a Credit Clearing Service
- Commercial Trade Exchanges, Their Present Limitations and Potential Future
- Credit Clearing – Pure and Simple
- Demurrage: is it a good idea for a local currency or exchange system?
- Fundamentals of Alternative Currencies and Value Measurement
- Global monetary system is headed over the cliff—An Open letter to Jim Rickards
- How to Bring Liquidity Into an Economy, Free of Interest, Inflation, and Boom and Bust Cycles
- Liquidity and Monetization-a monograph
- Local Currencies—what works; what doesn’t?
- Money and Debt: A Solution to the Global Crisis
- Money and Finance Have Now Been Completely Collectivized
- Money, debt and the end of the growth imperative
- New Money: A Creative Opportunity for Business
- Reclaiming the Credit Commons
- Solar Dollars – a way to promote renewable energy, while supporting the local economy and providing interest-free financing for utility companies
- Stop Chasing the Buck and Change Your Luck
- The Cooperative Community Commonwealth: A Prospective Outline for a New Socio-economic Framework
- My Videos and Sites
- News and Information Sources — State of the World
- Newsletter — November 2019
- Questions for discussion
- Recent Articles
- Reclaiming the Credit Commons
- Research and Reviews
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- Bitcoin, Blockchain, Crypto Resource List
- E. C. Riegel – Master of Monetary Truth
- E. C. Riegel’s Money Freedom Declaration
- E. C. Riegel’s VALUN MUTUAL MONEY PLAN
- Important Federal Reserve Publications
- Proposal – A Bioregional Economic Development Program Based on Mutual Credit Clearing
- State of the World—recommended authors, commentators, and sources
- Take back the money power
- Usury and the Church of England – Henry Swabey
- Resource links from Albert Bates
- Riding the Populist Wave
- Roundtable details
- The Economy—How Bad Will It Get?
- The End of Money and the Future of Civilization
- The End of Money and the Future of Civilization
- The End of Money: Take Power Back From the Money and Banking Monopoly
- THE END RESULTS OF THE WÖRGL EXPERIMENT.
- The Local Employment Trading System
- The Usury Conjecture on the centralized, interest-based, debt-money system
- There once was a river …An allegorical tale of money and credit
- Tour Reports-2007
- Transcending the present political money system–the urgent need and the way to do it.
- Walking Away: From the “New (Old) World Order,” into the Old (New) World Order. Part I
- Walking Away: From the “New (Old) World Order,” into the Old (New) World Order. Part II
- Walking Away… Part III
- Webinar Series: Our Money System – What’s Wrong with it and How to Fix it
- Youth Employment Scrip-Solving Two Problems at Once
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