Russell Brand: 10 Important Trews Shows You Need To See

4. Could We Cancel Debt?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUmeryOK1Mk Imagine if you could cancel all your debt today. Sounds preposterous, doesn't it? But what if you consider the $700 billion that was written off, and the trillions lent to banks after the 2008 financial crash? As Brand states in an excerpt of his new book, the governments of the affected nations simply got together and "press reset on the economy". Why is it only that debt in the financial sector is imaginary? Because money isn't real.
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