She did a good job and kudos to her.
A lot of her arguments are really naive though. Sure, banks make some money lending money to the government(s), but so do bond holders. A lot of those bond holders happen to be regular citizens, pension funds, and investment funds. That money is a loan that requires interest, otherwise no one will lend the funds. So, while its great to say we shouldn't have to pay interest so someone else can profit, you run into that little flaw of no one lending you money.
She is right that every bank is basically insolvent though; I don't know if the figures she uses are correct and just take them at face value, but that's why a run on a bank is so dangerous. Banks don't have the money to pay everyone out on every given day. It sounds like a shocking truth she has uncovered here, but it's a fairly well know fact in the financial world. While the average guy might be thinking "what?? How can we have let them get away with this??" It's really nothing new.
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