We should be moving toward local currencies not global or European currencies.

As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.

The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary system of local living economies comprised of human-scale enterprise rooted in the communities they serve and locally owned by the people whose wellbeing depends on them.

If you're living in the community and you own your local businesses and you're engaged in the local economy you should have a definite interest in the strength and health of your community, the caring relationships that bind people together.

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

Money is a mechanism for control.