How Central Banks have Seized Power over our Societies

Princes of the Yen reveals how post-war Japanese society was transformed to suit the agenda of powerful interest groups, and how citizens were kept entirely in the dark about this. History is now repeating itself around the world. Based on a book by Professor Richard Werner, a visiting researcher at the Bank of Japan during the 90s crash, during which the stock market dropped by 80% and house prices by up to 84%. The film uncovers how the Bank of Japan pumped up and then crashed the Japanese economy, with an aim of inducing change. Today, what happened in Japan 25 years ago is repeating itself in Europe, with an aim of centralizing power in the Eurozone.

Director: Michael Oswald
Original Title: Prince of the Yen
Full Documentary

[Brandonhistorymakerz]

The problem is no one even knows how this works. Ask anyone in your life if they understand the banking system and they’ll all just look at you and chuckle. There’s a reason our kids aren’t taught money in school. The system wants debt slaves not free people.

[ezilyyi]

"To Find Out Who Truly Rules Over You, Simply Find Out Who You Are Not Allowed To Criticize" [Voltaire]

[rustyshackleford]

I worked dishing out loans for years. Slavery was not abolished, it was redesigned.

[shellylofgren]

This bank crisis is so far from being over. Anyone who has been around for longer than 12 years, knows a credit crisis isn't over in two weeks. Makes me laugh seeing folks thinking this was all over so quickly. We are seeing a credit contraction that is gonna lead to a major contraction.

[michaels]

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies, ” Jefferson wrote. ” If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around(these banks) will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
Thomas Jefferson

[joehovanec]

Nathon Rothchild said, I care not what laws a nation passes as long as I control the money supply.

[hunterfalck]

I learned more about finance from books...teaching myself at 37....than I did in an entire academic career. School doesn't teach you anything useful by design, they teach you to follow directions. Follow. Directions. This goes for the majority of colleges, as well.

[HumanAfterAIl]

Something would have been done about this already if "Conspiracy Theorists" weren't shouted down every time we brought this up in the past 50 years...

[luiginiolu]

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning" H. Ford

[tahirisaid]

The recession is here, where do investors look at for wealth gains now? mortgage rates still on the rise with higher imports and lower exports, yet the Fed is to lessen cost. Something will eventually break if they keep raising interests and quantitative tightening.

[frostyjim]

The 'How' of it is interesting, the 'Why' of it is terrifying.

[ClassicJukeboxBand]

The Truth about how banking controls the world:
The banking system owns the money supply, and it is owned by private corporations. All central banks are private banks.
Governments, and everybody else has to borrow money from the banking system. This is why governments have national debts, and no governments have national surpluses.
Almost all the money created is created as debt, and owed back to the bank at interest.
Banks create new money every time they issue a loan to anybody. They are legally allowed to do this.
Banks loan money to people as a form of control. If a bank loans money to a corporation or other entity, they can control that entity by threatening to call in the loans they give out.
If all bank loans were paid off, there would basically be no money left.
Private banks are owed huge amounts of interest, and it is constantly sucking money out of the economy, so more money has to be created to keep enough in circulation to keep things going.
Banks control the world by getting people into debt and controlling them with it, true fact.

[gordonjordan]

When asked what his greatest accomplishment had been during his two terms as President, Andrew Jackson replied "I killed the Bank." He was talking about the "Second Bank of the United States", which was our country's second central bank.

[AKdaJuiceGuy]

"Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws."
-Mayer Amschel Rothschild

[matthewmaguire]

The wealthy don’t fight amongst themselves…it’s encouraged among the masses.

[Peter-ercd]

Nobody mentions exponential compound debt. It is treated like a fact of nature. It is in fact legalised usury, legal perfidy.

[ptptpt]

This was a huge eye opener. It's a story every person using central banknotes should know. People don't understand the currency or the institution they work all their life to put their savings in.

[wtf_usa]

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around (these banks) will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
  ~ Thomas Jefferson

[donaldwhittaker]

Very good. Thank you. Around 1910 Brooks Adam's wrote about how the concentration of capital caused societies to decline. This happens because when over 80% of the population is unable to subsist at a middle class level demand is reduced thereby causing recession or worse. Government must print money to stimulate demand. A never-ending cycle.

[truthmonster]

Japan has not had a free market this century or last. The hardest working people on the planet cannot afford a wife or kids or place to live precisely because the free market was never given a chance. the wealth of that nation has been plundered by the central bank and government.