(Video)10 year old British girl explains to her Teddy where money really comes from, & it ain"t the Bank of England

(Video)10 year old British girl explains to her Teddy where money really comes from, & it ain"t the Bank of England
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Positive Money is a movement to democratise money and banking so that it works for society and not against it.

Our current financial system has left us with the highest personal debt in history, unaffordable housing, worsening inequality, high unemployment and banks that are subsidised and underwritten with taxpayers’ money. We believe that these problems have a common root: money.

Many of the big social and economic problems that we’re facing today are connected to money. If we want to solve these problems, we have to change the way that money is created. Most of us learn that only the government can create money, but in reality more than 97% of money is created by private banks – the same banks you see on the high-street every day.

The money banks create isn’t the paper money you keep in your wallet. It’s the electronic money that flashes up when you check your balance at an ATM. Find out How Banks Create Money…

Banks create this electronic money whenever they make a loan. That means for every pound in your bank account, someone else must have a pound of debt. The authorities find it very difficult to limit how much money – and debt – that banks can create. As a result personal debt is now higher than ever before.

MORE: Why is there so much debt?

Since almost all of our money is ‘on loan’ from banks, someone must pay interest on nearly every pound in the UK. This interest redistributes money from the bottom 90% of the population to the top 10%. The money banks create also pushes up house prices, and blows up bubbles in financial markets – making the very rich even richer.

MORE: Why are the rich getting richer?

House prices have been pushed up and out of reach by the hundreds of billions of pounds of new money that banks created in the years before the financial crisis. It’s not just that there’s too many people and not enough houses..

MORE: Why are house prices so high?

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History: Teddy Roosevelt yells at a child, teaches a lesson

Of all the men that have called the Oval Office home, Teddy Roosevelt was perhaps the most unique. History has remembered the 26th president for his bullish personality, war record and, of course, the teddy bear.

Just nine days into his presidency, and shortly after the assassination of President William McKinley, Roosevelt found himself leaving a local Washington, D.C. church. According to an article in the Washington Post, Roosevelt was leaving Grace Reformed Church, located near Logan Circle.

Upon exiting, Roosevelt — accompanied by a police officer — noticed a young boy eagerly awaiting his arrival. The boy, armed with a rather large period camera wished to take a photograph of the then-president. This did not make the man that stormed up San Juan Hill very happy.

“You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Trying to take a man’s picture as he leaves a house of worship. It’s a disgrace. You ought to be ashamed of yourself,” the president called out to the no-doubt frightened child.

The Post story goes on to describe Roosevelt’s walk across the city to the home of Captain William S. Cowle, his brother-in-law. Though history has lost the reaction of the child being criticized by a president, one can imagine he was mortified. Despite the outcome for the child, it is interesting to imagine turn-of-the-century Washington. This was a time in which the leader of the free world could not only attend mass at a public church, but also walk around the city to visit family.

Almost 100 years since his death, it is sad that perhaps our greatest president has been reduced to this:

Douglas Barclay is an intern at Rare. Follow him on Twitter @douglabarclay17

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History: Teddy Roosevelt yells at a child, teaches a lesson