Bernard Lietaer

Money is created through bank debt. When you go for a mortgage through a bank, they give you $100,000 to buy a…

— Bernard Lietaer

When the banks create the money, they don't create the interest. They send you into the world to compete with everybody else…

— Bernard Lietaer

GREED AND COMPETITION ARE NOT THE RESULT OF IMMUTABLE HUMAN TEMPERMENT…GREED AND FEAR OF SCARCITY ARE IN FACT BEING CREATED AND AMPLIFIED…

— Bernard Lietaer

“The global monetary crises of the 1990s (Mexico, Russia, Asia and Brazil) proved that our money system is now sick, and that…

— Bernard Lietaer

Our [American] money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at…

— Bernard Lietaer

Conventional money is supposed to be doing everything. By adding in complementary currencies, you actually get different types of things and different…

— Bernard Lietaer

The Future of Money: Creating New Wealth, Work, and a Wiser World

— Bernard Lietaer

Complementary currencies work in addition to existing money, rather than replacing existing, official money. There are whole different families of complementary currencies.…

— Bernard Lietaer

Look at any financial institution, at any bank. They're all photocopies of each other. There's no diversity of institutions and even less…

— Bernard Lietaer

The direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive.

— Bernard Lietaer

Basically, for any complex to be sustainable needs to have a balance between two factors: resilience and efficiency. These two factors can…

— Bernard Lietaer