Wizards of Money Part 22: Ecotainment Gossip… Did You Know That Mickey Loves Smokey?
by Smithy/Unwelcome Guests

Part Summary: In this, the twenty second edition of the Wizards of Money, we’re gong to take a look at the status of our public lands, and in that process we’ll look at particular private interests that are seriously thwarting the public land managers.

Series Summary: The Wizards of Money is an educational series that questions the validity of the global monetary system. Listen and discover amazing facts about the world-wide debt system we’ve all been enslaved by, and how this system produces economic disparity and the massive poverty conditions in which most people find themselves today.

About the Host: Smithy has degrees in mathematics and economics. She works as a consultant calculating investment risk for financial institutions, therefore she does not reveal her real name.

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Wizards of Money Part 21: Playing Russian Roulette In The Carbon Markets
by Smithy/Unwelcome Guests

Part Summary: In this, the twenty first edition of the Wizards of Money, we’re going to look at the hottest market on the globe. Well, it’s actually the market designed to cool things down a bit – the global carbon market.

Series Summary: The Wizards of Money is an educational series that questions the validity of the global monetary system. Listen and discover amazing facts about the world-wide debt system we’ve all been enslaved by, and how this system produces economic disparity and the massive poverty conditions in which most people find themselves today.

About the Host: Smithy has degrees in mathematics and economics. She works as a consultant calculating investment risk for financial institutions, therefore she does not reveal her real name.

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Wizards of Money Part 20: The Battle Of The Dragons – Oil vs Insurance
by Smithy/Unwelcome Guests

Part Summary: In this, the twentieth edition of the Wizards of Money, we’re going to look at why it’s not easy being green when everybody wants to be in the black! We’ll discuss the relationship between black gold, the future of the world’s most powerful cartel, the changing climate and the powerful industry that loses big bucks on bad weather.

Series Summary: The Wizards of Money is an educational series that questions the validity of the global monetary system. Listen and discover amazing facts about the world-wide debt system we’ve all been enslaved by, and how this system produces economic disparity and the massive poverty conditions in which most people find themselves today.

About the Host: Smithy has degrees in mathematics and economics. She works as a consultant calculating investment risk for financial institutions, therefore she does not reveal her real name.

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Wizards of Money Part 19: The Education Sweepstakes
by Smithy

Part Summary: In this, the nineteenth edition of the Wizards of Money, we are going to take a look at the funding of education and the rise of the slot machine. With more federal dollars being diverted to overseas conquests and the US states experiencing a severe budget crisis, some things have to suffer. And one of these somethings happens to be education. “Never mind”, say some states, let’s just get those lotto balls rolling and slot machines ringing.

Series Summary: The Wizards of Money is an educational series that questions the validity of the global monetary system. Listen and discover amazing facts about the world-wide debt system we’ve all been enslaved by, and how this system produces economic disparity and the massive poverty conditions in which most people find themselves today.

About the Host: Smithy has degrees in mathematics and economics. She works as a consultant calculating investment risk for financial institutions, therefore she does not reveal her real name.

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Wizards of Money Part 18: Where Wall Street Crosses Auburn Avenue
by Smithy

Part Summary: In this, the eighteenth edition of the Wizards of Money, we’re going to look at what’s driving today’s record rate of home foreclosures – from sub prime lending to abuses of the homeownership programs initiated during the Great Depression.

Series Summary: The Wizards of Money is an educational series that questions the validity of the global monetary system. Listen and discover amazing facts about the world-wide debt system we’ve all been enslaved by, and how this system produces economic disparity and the massive poverty conditions in which most people find themselves today.

About the Host: Smithy has degrees in mathematics and economics. She works as a consultant calculating investment risk for financial institutions, therefore she does not reveal her real name.

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Wizards of Money Part 17: Caught Between And Dock And A Sweatshop
by Smithy

Part Summary: As the Holiday Season of 2002 approaches, this 17th edition of the Wizards of Money will look at the path taken by the goodies that will end up under the Christmas Tree.

Series Summary: The Wizards of Money is an educational series that questions the validity of the global monetary system. Listen and discover amazing facts about the world-wide debt system we’ve all been enslaved by, and how this system produces economic disparity and the massive poverty conditions in which most people find themselves today.

About the Host: Smithy has degrees in mathematics and economics. She works as a consultant calculating investment risk for financial institutions, therefore she does not reveal her real name.

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Wizards of Money Part 16: There’s A Generic In My Shark Fin Soup!
by Smithy

Part Summary: In this, the sixteenth episode of the Wizards of Money, we’re going to take a look at the world of drugs – the legal ones, that is. The star of this episode is the only industry more profitable than the commercial banking sector throughout the 1990s – and that’s the pharmaceutical industry, of course.

Series Summary: The Wizards of Money is an educational series that questions the validity of the global monetary system. Listen and discover amazing facts about the world-wide debt system we’ve all been enslaved by, and how this system produces economic disparity and the massive poverty conditions in which most people find themselves today.

About the Host: Smithy has degrees in mathematics and economics. She works as a consultant calculating investment risk for financial institutions, therefore she does not reveal her real name.

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Wizards of Money Part 15: Homeland Securitizations And Overseas Vacations… A Journey Through The Financial Twilight Zone
by Smithy

Part Summary: In this, the fifteenth edition of Wizards, we are going to take a look at the adventures that financial institutions send their financial instruments on – both at home and abroad. On this journey through the “Financial Twilight Zone” we’ll look at some of the financial tricks receiving attention in today’s corporate and banking scandals, as well as the rescue packages available for homeland capital getting into trouble in its overseas adventures.

Series Summary: The Wizards of Money is an educational series that questions the validity of the global monetary system. Listen and discover amazing facts about the world-wide debt system we’ve all been enslaved by, and how this system produces economic disparity and the massive poverty conditions in which most people find themselves today.

About the Host: Smithy has degrees in mathematics and economics. She works as a consultant calculating investment risk for financial institutions, therefore she does not reveal her real name.

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Wizards of Money Part 14: The Trade Federation And The InterGalactic Banking Clan
by Smithy/Unwelcome Guests

Part Summary: In this, the fourteenth edition of Wizards, we are going to take a look at the Earthly versions of the Star Wars Movies troublemakers known as the Trade Federation and the Intergalactic Banking Clan, responsible for starting and financing the Clone Wars. Our modern earthly descendants are known as the World Trade Organization and the US Coalition of Services Industries, founded by financial services giants in the early 1980s. These two bodies have formed strong alliances over the past two decades to bring us a very special and powerful trade agreement known as the GATS – which stands for General Agreement on Trade in Services. This agreement is said to cover international trade in anything you can’t “drop on your foot” – that means anything from banking to healthcare, childcare and education to communications and media to the postal service to water treatment services.

Series Summary: The Wizards of Money is an educational series that questions the validity of the global monetary system. Listen and discover amazing facts about the world-wide debt system we’ve all been enslaved by, and how this system produces economic disparity and the massive poverty conditions in which most people find themselves today.

About the Host: Smithy has degrees in mathematics and economics. She works as a consultant calculating investment risk for financial institutions, therefore she does not reveal her real name.

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Wizards of Money Part 13: Bankruptcy Bill’s Shoot-Out At The Social Safety Net
by Smithy/Unwelcome Guests

Part Summary: In this the thirteenth chapter of Wizards, we are going to take a look at another Chapter 13 … and a Chapter 7 and a Chapter 11 – these chapters are some of the main ways under federal law to file for Bankruptcy. Importantly we will look at the strong relationship between the non-stop credit offers we find stuffing our mailbox, e-mail and voicemail everyday, the innovative financial Wizardry behind such offers and the rapid rise in personal bankruptcies. We’ll examine who does file for bankruptcy and what causes them to go bankrupt. Then we’ll look at the new Dream Bill of the Credit Card and Banking Industries – called “Bankruptcy Bill” – that looks set to pass into law soon. Bankruptcy Bill is aimed at thwarting people’s attempts to be caught in that final, last-resort, safety net, known as the bankruptcy court. To help us understand both the credit offer onslaught and the salient features of Bankruptcy Bill we’ll talk to Margaret Howard, a Law Professor at Washington and Lee University, and visiting scholar at the American Bankruptcy Institute.

Series Summary: The Wizards of Money is an educational series that questions the validity of the global monetary system. Listen and discover amazing facts about the world-wide debt system we’ve all been enslaved by, and how this system produces economic disparity and the massive poverty conditions in which most people find themselves today.

About the Host: Smithy has degrees in mathematics and economics. She works as a consultant calculating investment risk for financial institutions, therefore she does not reveal her real name.

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