Shaking up the Money Status Quo: The untold story of Local Currency

Shaking up the Money Status Quo : Untold Story of the Local Currency
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Do you know that the power to issue money was a triggering cause of the American Revolution ? Do you know why, after winning the power to issue money, Congress gave it up again? Did you know that Presidents Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Wilson and FD Roosevelt had all foresaw in their own ways the financial crisis we face today?
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Come hear the untold story of money in this country, and learn how we can empower ourselves again.… Show more
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This is part of the TransitionSF Speaker Series
Chong Kee Tan  has been an activist for almost 20 years, working in the area of Asian democracy, press freedom, censorship, and -- after coming to the United States -- in the area of equal rights and sustainability. After the 2008 financial crisis, he began studying our financial and monetary systems, and quickly came to realize that changing these systems could help address many of the most pressing problems facing the world today. He started Bay Bucks as a TransitionSF  project in hopes of addressing these problems and making the SF Bay Area more resilient. Chong Kee received his BA (Hons) in Computer Science from Cambridge University and his PhD in Chinese Literature from Stanford University .

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