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 Writing and researching this thread 👇  on history' most dramatic Easter crime rewarded me with understanding another important piece of the monetary policy puzzle. 

Read on, and you soon see what I mean. My journey can now be summed up in this way:

1.
When I wrote Fraudcoin I realized that monetary policy is about manipulating the money supply with 

- inflation, 
- deflation, and 
- channelization 

of the stock of money. 

2.
Before I wrote UNBAR I had realized that in principle we only have two different types of monetary systems, something which became the backbone of this book No. 2 on money from me.

These systems were:

- monetary freedom, and
- monetary monopoly

However, I still thought that monetary monopoly mainly would be abused with inflation, deflation and channelization of the money supply.

3.
And then, today I realized that the problem is monopoly itself, even if the monopolist doesn't inflate, deflate or channelize the money supply. 

No -  the monopolist can and will use his monopoly to set up a virtual wall between people who just want to interact with each other in a cooperative manner. 

The monopolist then abuses his monopoly by charging a monopoly price for his money. 

Since this is a monopoly that in reality takes control over the most powerful social network that humankind has seen, the monetary system, it will in itself constitute a massive instrument for wealth extraction and concentration of political power.

Read it and pls. share your thoughts with us.
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