Never a borrower or a lender be - Stop the cancer of economic growth!

Stern optimistically suggests that it is possible to break the link between economic growth and emissions Click here for link

Who benefits from our addiction to "growth"? Only the significantly rich. And if you are reading this blog, you are not significantly rich, don't fool yourself. Rich means as many millions as you have thousands. Rich means not caring about what happens to anyone else and possibly your offspring, because they are the vehicles of your genes.

Most of us in the west already have plenty. You can only eat off one plate at a time and wear one pair of shoes at one time. Lets make the most of what we have. Instead of buying more shoes than we will ever wear, more credit cards than we will ever repay, more cars than we can drive, and ever more air miles, it is time to learn to be human. In the last 70,000 years our species has come a long way and now that we have conquered and almost destroyed the earth, it is time to take stock.

Instead of allowing the economy to grow like some massive cancer on the face of the planet, this recession is time to start thinking about what is important. Yes you need money to pay the mortgage, and to earn a living wage, but for everything else? Not so much!!

Far better to live a healthy life, than leave a decadent disease ridden mental corpse as a rotting legacy to how you helped destroy life on planet Earth.




Copyright Dr Liz Miller 2008

More about money

Although I originally put this on Doctor Bloggs, it belongs here more naturally.


Understand what is happening to our money supply
Click here for a link to a film of 45 minutes that explains modern banking and money in way that you and your children have to understand if you are to survive financially




Copyright Dr Liz Miller 2008

This video explains what is happening to our money supply far better than I can
Click here for a link to a film of 45 minutes that explains modern banking and money in way that you and your children have to understand if you are to survive financially





Copyright Dr Liz Miller 2008

How Blind is the Gordon

Gordon can't read the small print anymore

SIZE 36 FONT and FAILING FAST (this is only size 24)

So the Gordon has thrown his lot in with the banks. Why?
Do we need banks or do we need somewhere safe to store work? None of the money that the government is pouring into banks is getting past the board.


There is no clarity in the system - we have no idea what or who the Gordon is working for. Quite obviously not the citizens of the country. What kind of New World Order does he have in mind?


News for you Gordon- we are not ready for it yet, and there are people in this country prepared to die for freedom and justice.


Yes, Britain has a history of martyrdom, on both sides of the Protestant-Catholic, bureaucratic-autocratic divide. You are not just taking the country to the edge of bankruptcy but to the edge of civil war.


Your choice Gordon, you will certainly be remembered in history, the only question is, as what?


Copyright Dr Liz Miller 2008

Money is stored work

Money is stored work. Probably Marx was the first person in recent times to notice it. However that was in the mid 19th century before rampant inflation took hold of our economies.

Inflation is rising prices where too much money chases too few goods. Prices rise when there are more pounds or dollars than goods and there is a shortage of goods. Scarcity economics. When there are plenty of goods, prices drop.

In Zimbabwe, a real life laboratory of inflation, the shelves are empty. When there is only one loaf of bread, it goes to the highest bidder. If only two people able to bid, the rest starve. Prices rise because there are not enough goods and the government is printing dollars. If there were lots of food on the shelves, food would have to sell more cheaply or not sell. Shopkeepers pitch their prices high, because they can and because there are food shortages.

Deflation, falling prices, too little money chases too many goods. The price of goods falls. IT costs are deflationary. A new well appointed computer costs under a thousand pounds. In 1976, my first double floppy disc drive cost £940. Nowadays there are too many computers and too little money for them, most people can only use one computer at once. Similarly, in the High Street, too many clothes chase too few buyers. Despite the Sales, the High Street stores overstocked because they thought wholesale prices were too good to miss. They bought everything on credit, and now the price is dropping.

In the UK there are also areas of inflation - for example food and fuel. We may be able to live with an extra set of clothes, but we cannot live without food and fuel. There is not enough food and fuel on the market to lower prices. For people who can afford neither computers, clothes, nor food or fuel. Life is tough.

People charge what they can get away with. Where there is plenty of competition and plenty of goods, the price is close to the cost of production, or what the goods cost to make. Where there is a monopoly, a shortage of goods and plenty of money, the price becomes speculative and reaches what the shopkeeper thinks he or she can get away with charging.

How to get out of this spiral? These are the principles of a good citizen of MatrixEconomics.

Principles of good citizenship

Tell the truth and obey the law where it does not oppress another human being or animal
Pay as little tax as legally possible
Work and provide for yourselves, your family and your friends
Stay healthy
Be self sufficient
Do not use credit - ever, unless you are starving or homeless
Owing money is the first step to twenty first century slavery



Copyright Dr Liz Miller 2008