97% Owned

Explains the introduction and impact of Britain and The USA adopting Fractional Reserve Banking System.

We need the ALL the profits from the banking system to reduce our housing costs, re-fund the NHS and provide free education and good pensions.

And while we are at it we could use some of the £trillions per year to stimulate and re-establish, using grants like in the 1980's, the SME sector.

To do this is not socialism. It is not any "ism".

This documentary shows how £trillions per are stolen from us.

An important question is where the £trillions go? Where does all that staggeringly vast sum go every year.

What is the stolen cash doing, while our society suffers hardship, disease, low pensions and tuition fees?

I consider myself to be a relative Intelligent person, but had a truly hard time understanding all of the ins and out of this documentary. While the topic is definitely important and interesting, the makers fail at creating a documentary that average people can understand.

Part of this has to do with the lack of a clear story line. You feel that all of the contributing interviewees have important information, but the total of chunks of information do not lead to a whole that is clear understandable and mor than the sum of its parts.

What also does not help are:

+ The very monotone comment that is unable to draw you into the subject matter.

+ The at times poorly communicating infographics.

+ The seemingly random scenes from black and white moves that bear no clear relation to the topic

The topic is relevant and interesting, but will never reach a really large audience simply because no one seems to have ever really thought about the best way to inform a large audience in a way that they can understand. This one is basically and foremost only for those with a university degree in economics, and therefore by definition for the elite that has no interest in changing things for the better of all of us. A missed opportunity and such a shame.

Looking forward to a more accessible documentary on the topic.

Wasn't an easy watch, I couldn't think clearly, so I will likely have to revisit. Sheds light on how debt and money creation works, and feeds on the fact that money is now mostly paperless. It is put together in a way that leads the mind to think of conspiracies, yet that's natural since whatever we consider could be considered by ones with access as well. As with most documentaries there has to be an allure, a selling point, and this is no different albeit lays down many facts the average person wouldn't normally think about. Maybe I will check out the book that it's largely based on which is listed near the end.

Simple facts described in a plain and simple manner : the building stone of economy is how money is created. And, most importantly, debt is explained : that there is no economy w/out debt. Debt is core. It's all about the control of debt, and who "owns" debts.

As is, debt is as important a concept, as creation of money is. And this is not at all about some 3% of coin & paper money in the system, it's essentially about some 97++% of 'virtual' money being send back and fro. And about a specific type of money that only exsists and can be used with, for instance, the Bank of England -- and nowhere else.

A complicated system which evolved from simple facts when law decided to forbid private banks to issue their own paper & coin money in the 19th century.

But then somehow, and it's not a mystery, private banks still keep on issuing money (tho not their own paper & coin notes)

and that is, in essence, what this doumentary is about : the how, when and why.

A must watch, to be honest and a 10-star docu if only the female narrator's voice would not have been mixed in in such a shallow manner (often too hard too grasp; a pity) : it deserves a clear firm straight sound given that the documentary itself is profoundly clear.