HeyJaredSam Studies Money
I share my research into the social, economic, and ecological impacts of the way nations create their money supplies. I show how today's national monetary systems can be transformed from sources of harm into forces for good.
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Join me at the American Monetary Institute's 2026 Online Conference (opens the original)
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I’m collaborating with Martijn van der Linden, a leading European scholar of money, banking, and monetary reform, on a paper describing the legal privileges and government accommodations that enable banks to create money. We’ll be presenting about it at the 2026 American Monetary Institute conference on September 26th. The conference is online and free to register. Here’s the abstract for our talk:How Governments Turn Commercial Bank Debt into MoneyAlmost all the money in circulation is created
International bank lending is all about domestic money creation (opens the original)
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Who do you want to have the power to create money? (opens the original)
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Every year, banks create more money than is spent by the citizens of their nation (opens the original)
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If you’ve never thought of bank money creation as one of the most powerful forces shaping the economy, you are not alone. It didn’t strike me as particularly important when I learned about it in my college macroeconomics class. I now know my experience is common. Mainstream economics education places little emphasis on bank money creation. For example, the globally best-selling economics textbook of the last 30 years leaves the topic of bank money creation to chapter 29 and presents it alongside
A missing conversation in climate finance (opens the original)
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The Money Justice Collaborative interviewed 50 leaders in climate finance advocacy, monetary reform, and banking scholarship. Our goal was to find out why the three groups are not working together more to challenge the government-granted privileges that enable banks to newly create 100% of the money they lend, including the money they lend to fossil fuel companies.1 In fact, these privileges are the <a href="https://samhummel.substack.com/p/in-focus-banking-on-climate-chao
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