The US Monetary System and the Present Financial State of our Economy

Martin Squibbs

Jan. 15, 2012

Martin Squibbs

Humanist Community member Martin Squibbs recaps (from his Nov. 13, 2011 Forum talk) his discussion of money as a measure of exchanged human value and an estimate of real wealth.  He will then seek to explain as simply as possible how the U.S. economy operates, based upon its fiat banking system, and review some of its 20th century history, in order to put its highly unbalanced state today in an historical perspective. Finally, he will consider the possible future paths it may follow to regain its balance, and some precautions we may ourselves consider in order to be prepared for such possibilities.

 

Police Oversight: A View from San Jose’s Independent Police Auditor

Judge LaDoris Cordell

Jan. 8, 2012

Retired Judge LaDoris Cordell will describe her unique work as the Independent Police Auditor for the City of San Jose. Judge Cordell, in addition to serving on the bench for 19 years (where she was the first African American woman to hold that position), also served for 8 years as Special Counselor to the President for Campus Relations at Stanford, has been an on-camera legal analyst for CBS-5 television and Court TV, and was elected to the Palo Alto City Council.

 

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