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Understanding the Monetary System

Module 06 of 25 · Essential Knowledge

Understanding the Monetary System

Who rules the world & how money really works

III

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”

— CiceroOrator
Plate VI · Understanding the Monetary System

Module

06 of 25

Runtime

~32 min

Branch

Essential Knowledge

Taught by

Alex Krainer

The argument

Inside this module.

Did you know that the Federal Reserve Bank is not owned or run by the US government? It's a privately owned bank, just like the Bank of England. Money is not just about buying ice-cream and burgers — it can make or break entire nations, fund wars, motivate people to do good, and corrupt them to do harm. If you don't understand the history of money power, nothing about the world will make sense. You will wonder why you never learned this before.

What you’ll walk away with

  • It's a privately owned bank, just like the Bank of England.
  • Money is not just about buying ice-cream and burgers — it can make or break entire nations, fund wars, motivate people to do good, and corrupt them to do harm.
  • If you don't understand the history of money power, nothing about the world will make sense.
  • You will wonder why you never learned this before.

Questions we’ll explore

The questions a thoughtful student asks — and the questions this module insists they ask.

  1. i.

    Who actually owns the central banks?

  2. ii.

    What changed in 1971 — and why does almost no one talk about it?

  3. iii.

    How does money creation shape wars, elections, and the price of a house?

  4. iv.

    Is gold a relic, or a memory the system would prefer you forgot?

  5. v.

    What would a sound monetary system look like, and why has it been refused?

Taught by

Alex Krainer.

Alex Krainer

Market analyst & hedge fund founder

Based in Monaco, Alex is the founder of Krainer Analytics and creator of I-System Trend Following. As a market analyst, researcher, speaker, trader and hedge-fund manager, he has authored several books on finance and commodities trading. By 2007 his investment management business had generated positive returns through the 2008 financial crisis, and his fund outperformed the Dow Jones Credit Suisse Index of Blue-Chip commodity futures trading funds.

  • Markets
  • Finance
  • Trading

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