Princes of the Yen | The Hidden Power of Central Banks

[@andsch0172]

One of the most important videos ever, everybody should know. I was a banker until I saw what happens behind even in small banks. Customers driven in bankruptcy because someone from bank liked the real estate and bought it for a fraction in an auction nobody knew about. Credits for friends and the right party members in important positions and so on.

[@jasonfrisken7606]

You obviously had to many morals and decency to work in the industry

[@face.-]

That would have been a great time to do spy work. Not to mention it would fun to catch those crooks in the act! But it's hard to stay around wicked people and play nice together

[@thelouster5815]

Banks should never have been made for profit, and it is abhorrent that they are.

[@busterbiloxi3833]

andreas schaetze: Cry me a river.

[@face.-]

@@yaxl I belive I wrote"those crooks"...plural

[@64bit-]

"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." - Henry Ford

[@swedhgemoni8092]

They know it very well. They just don't have the spine to make a move to do anything at all. Come to think of it, they don't have a spine to act against 🇰-🇮-🇰-🇪-🇷-🇴-🇦-🇨-🇭-🇪-🇸 like weinstein and epstein either so hoping for them do something about the situation is futile.

[@Darkrezta]

@@swedhgemoni8092 nope not very well at all. I mean you can ask every people in usa how much they actually understand how the banking and monetary system work, like actually understand it, and I am 100% sure most of them will not actually understand it.

[@dogetaxes8893]

Fair, but what would you replace it with? laissez-faire capitalism, socialism, communism? At best you’d slightly improve the system, and likely it would be a bloody and just make things worse.

[@shezyam460]

@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese larp

[@shezyam460]

@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese take ur meds, nothing will happen

[@HellofromLongBeach]

I am from Japan living in the US...I lived through the Bubble Economy and its burst, then left Japan. The sad part is...I used be a SWAP dealer at the Japanese biggest hedge fund and Istill didn't really know what was going on. Thank you for sharing this documentary.

[@zurinarctus1329]

The USA is a giant douchebag, yet your LDP leaders keep bending down beneath the Yankees.

[@iliashornung3178]

Just like nazi's went to work for the cia , nasa and nato. Operation Paperclip. Reinhard Gehlen , Klaus Barbie, Skorzeny( also mossad), von Kielmansegg, Kurt Waldheim, Adolf Heusinger , Hans Speidel, Wernher von Braun, Arthur Rudolph , Hermann Oberth, etc. Also Japanes warcriminals from Unit 731 went to work for the US army. Unit 731 murdered millions of Chinese ( massacre/rape of Nanking etc

[@mitonaarea5856]

@@zurinarctus1329 if it weren't for the US japan would be much worse

[@mitonaarea5856]

@@anonymus5022 yeah is that supposed to be a good thing?

[@user-pn3im5sm7k]

@@anonymus5022 That would be a good thing lol

[@vasilikichaintini722]

Just a BIG thank you to everyone who worked for us all to be able to see this documentary. A real contribution to understanding whats going on in the world.

[@zioslayerbear8592]

This is the most BRILLIANT documentary on the IMF and central banks i have ever watched !!!! Humanity please wake up !

[@muhammadluthfi1433]

@Max Strong you nothing from israel.

[@stevecooper3010]

Watch Zeitgeist 2007

[@numbre1uno]

Onward to beartaria

[@simonrowe3124]

😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴

[@lk0056]

It's very sad to see how powerless regular people are. Look at the covid crisis for example. Mass lockdowns and even with all the people that were against it it STILL happened. I don't know what the solution is anymore.

[@ShobeirSheida]

The quality of these productions remind me of Adam Curtis' brilliant documentaries (e.g. "the century of the self") Thanks a lot for being a light in the darkness.

[@robertdore9592]

These documentaries are only permitted because they are historical; the crooks responsible for these misdeeds have moved on to evermore complex and sophisticated scams - we're being subjected to one right now.

[@ShobeirSheida]

@@garethcoxmusic I don't think so.

[@billybobobenner]

@@garethcoxmusic You're wrong.

[@geetaliification]

The visuals creating an association between Central Banks and snakes was executed beautifully

[@YT-hu1bq]

The one's who understand and know. Always feel alone in these matters.

[@raspberrykissable]

Very true

[@susyq4886]

Indeed, it is a lonely existence to not be one of the sheep.

[@jasonfrisken7606]

@@susyq4886 but worth it if you play the long game susy q

[@joshuapaulgibson]

Wow! The truest thing you’ve ever spoken I’m sure of it. It’s a super lonely journey over here in the southeast US. The total oblivion to everything is like being in some sort of Matrix.

[@benconway7088]

What else can I look at similar to this throughout history? This has completely changed my view on “Inflation”, as in Consumer Price Index and Asset Price Inflation are two very different terms.

[@victorsong8416]

The deeper you dig in, the more you uncover, the more it becomes OBVIOUS, that everything is indeed a "Conspiracy". It's not a word of denigration and ridicule, but a word of knowledge, truth and wisdom.

[@guyindecatur]

A conspiracy theorist is simply the person that figures out what going on before everyone else.

[@JohnSmith-wo2fz]

You're on the first rung, now pay attention to the names of everyone involved on the western side of things - they're all linked somehow...

[@John-c4r1o]

I personally think the US convinced Japan to undergo a controlled financial demolition. Whether it had malevolent intentions is debatable, but opening up Japan to US investment by crushing it's industrial defensive architecture is obvious.

[@whatabouttheearth]

People living under capitalism thinking central banks are the problem is blindly absurd. Seriously, I suggest 'How the World Works' by Paul Cockshot, 'The Origin of Capitalism' by Ellen Meiskins Wood, and Neo Liberalism by David Harvey.

[@whatabouttheearth]

People living under capitalism thinking central banks are the problem is blindly absurd. Seriously, I suggest 'How the World Works' by Paul Cockshot, 'The Origin of Capitalism' by Ellen Meiskins Wood, and Neo Liberalism by David Harvey.

[@mightbesherwood1313]

11:18 to get past the intro 22:43 Japan bubble+crash 1:10:12 same in SE Asia 1:23:48 same in EU After each crash, help is offered by global banks, as long as the door is left wide open for those banks to buy and lend, displacing the home grown banks and shareholders.

[@辻野克輝]

I am Japanese and didn't know truth about Nichigin at all. Every Japanese should see this.

[@AndreAndFriends]

We are all being kept in the dark.

[@RasPutintheGreat]

Share them.

[@mariussielcken]

I recommend the book 'the mystery of banking' and 'confessions of an economic hitman'

[@markrobertmurphysr]

THERZ NO CORRECT HISTORY BOOKS ; 'THAT AH WRITER/WAS CORRECTLY ' INFORMED/RE PRINTED'' XAMPLE LOOK AT HOW MNY BIBLES[ VARITIONS ] -

[@polygamous1]

Every citizen on earth should watch this

[@sumiokuge9118]

I, a Japanese at an age of 63, recognize how bad the recent 40 years are. During a this period, I graduated from a university, worked and am retired. How bad I feel about this !

[@larslarsson1903]

Trump is cleaning up this mess once and for all .Sounds crazy but it's happening rigth now 💖🇺🇸 WWG1WGA, PEACE

[@jonyq]

@@larslarsson1903how so?

[@user-zb8ss9xb1b]

​@@larslarsson1903Yeah the billionaire will save you.

[@muhammaDEsmustafa]

​@larslarsson1903 He's an Israel first that works for the bankers and receives bribes from Zionist billionaires in public. He's not your savior, he's just another Obama. Flase hope.

[@okiok2535]

Came here December 2020 What a WONDERFUL MASTERPIECE !!!! Only 1.9M views in 6 years , shocking !! Thank you .

[@ntifosunana8877]

It pretty long and has an uninteresting title.

[@tomasbickel58]

Just be aware, that this documentation promotes a narrative, which probably isn't entirely true .. you know .. omitting stuff, historically important, but not helpful to the story.

[@okiok2535]

@@tomasbickel58 interesting reply

[@tomasbickel58]

@@okiok2535 "September 22, 1985 Plaza, NYC" .. something bugged me when I watched first 4 years ago, but I could put my finger on it. I came across it yesterday by accident watching an other video - so I rewatched this one. And yes, its missing.

[@dualfluidreactor]

@@tomasbickel58 what exactly is it that you think is missing?

[@tzc83]

The elites are doing a good job, normal people are more interested in Taylor Swift's 56th boy friend's dog than a great piece like this.

[@dinosaurusdog9118]

So history will just repeat itself.

[@gatthom1]

@@dinosaurusdog9118 ONLY if GOOD People do nothing...___!!! Support EVIL?

[@LaoZi2023]

@@caswallonandflur692 , why?

[@UToobUsername01]

To be fair there is nothing you can do about it short of declaring war on the banks themselves. That means: "Are you willing to kill for freedom?" Most people won't do it. They will kill poisonous spider that has entered their house, deal with rat infestation with pest control service, beat up a homeless man on the street and call him lazy bum for not working, and teach children that stealing is wrong, etc.....but they won't fight the adult bully and organise freedom fighter organisation to deal with the central banks army. Until you actually fight you are not going to see change. But what you can do is avoid dealing with them. Create your own currency and deal directly with each other (no middleman). Trade directly in gold coins within your own community and spend your money only with the people in your community to encourage growth and don't worry about the growth of people in foreign lands. Back to basics before computers could generate new money with magic 1s and 0s and pretend that was real value being produced. Go back to bible and honest weights and measures. None of this magic trick nonsense. The value comes from the things that money *buys* which is your labour. Trae directly in IOU with your neighbour and buy things to stimulate the economy locally if possible. You grow farm and have apples? Give to the neighbours and see if you can obtain service from that. eg if you can borrow their mower once in a while or they water your garden for you when you are too busy) the tiny economy is what you choose to spend your energy on daily basis. No speculation when you are dealing with dependable people you already know. Risk exists anytime you have a middleman making decisions for you, or the dishonesty exists in the medium of exchange. (ie instead of dealin in gold coins you now deal in paper money that is a mere promise to pay. History shows us man cannot perfectly honor his promises only God can do this. So deal in the assets and things of value like your labour as payment for things. in other words don't give promises but just give the valuable thing itself. In the old days currency/paper money was just a credit note to say "you can take the gold from my vault of X amount" not the actual valuable thing itself. Just the right to withdraw the valuable thing. The payee didn't get the thing in his hands until he presented the credit note to the bank and the bank finally gives him the actual gold you were owed. Since people are lazy and skipped that step of going to the vault, the bankers have taken advantage of this and use it to create fake money which produces an illusion of wealth in the economy rather than *real* wealth. The sin of laziness allows for them to have power to enslave you now. To undo this, you got to deal directly in gold(or asset) with the person you deal with and have contract with them directly. So if an old lady down the street can't afford uber, you can offer to drive her to church every sunday in exchange for free apples that she grows in her orchard and this creates less reliance on the fake or speculative economy which is uncertain because you rely on third party to trust. (decreasing reliability) If you are too busy to walk the dog you can have your daughter walk the dog and she gets allowance (she can stay in the home rent-free as payment for the chores instead of wasting money renting apartment once she is 18 and ready to leave nest) The thing is this: the illusion of wealth is what all people need to stop believing in and focus on things you can see with your own eyes. Don't beleive the wizard can solve your problem for you. He only exists because you begged him to rescue you. If you took the bait and believed that you could obtain things for free you are a sinner just as much as them for offering the promise to pay for everything with nothing. Once you are red pill and know it's a scam, then now you are just as guilty for supporting it. A certain percentage of people know its a lie but benefit from ignorance so that is why the central banks can get away with theft. And so the burden of debt rests on the nation that chooses to ignore the problem not the scammer himself.

[@LaoZi2023]

UToobUsername01 , that’s not entirely true. Countries and people can start using other types of security holding entities, local banks with a lower rate of mongering- they are out there. Unions are another good option. Vote in Senator Sanders, and even the playing field. Get corporate money out of government- unless you see the government as a money making machine. You see, these are fiscal Conservative ideologies. But they also can work for the progressive as well. We can come together on this. Are you willing to keep the average person at a disadvantage? This is also a fault of your argument: we are fighting wars for oil, not democracy. Are you willing to keep all the American money tied up in killing people you have no quarrel with?

[@wh6055]

For anyone who has read 'Confessions of an Economic Hitman', it's highly obvious that Japan and the Asian Tigers were victims of these economic hitmen. That book would be a great complement to those who have watched this documentary, and vice versa. Japan came into the sights of these hitmen for 2 plain reasons: One, they had a gigantic trade surplus to the US, which means the same as the US having a trade deficit to Japan. Two, US tycoons saw the economic potential in Japan and felt obliged to grab their (undeserving) piece of the pie. In recent years, most countries have wised up to these disastrous tactics of the great US of A. Which is why you see the top powers-that-be now turn their attention inwards, and now it's the US citizens themselves getting sucked into the void via irresponsible lending and forclosure of assets.

[@dcsco]

Yes, 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man' supports this documentary very well. That book calls those 'hit men' and their helpers 'jackals', which is very appropriate. What I don't understand is why Japan and the Asian Tigers agreed to those harmful loan terms from the IMF, when they didn't need the IMF, and could have just printed their own money instead. The same for any other take over target country too. Unless the IMF is bribing the government officials to accept those horrible loan terms. That seems like the only way they would.

[@arilebon]

How would it play out with China and Russia? It has a powerful military which may change the equation somewhat. Russia appears successful in undermining the US and UK from within.

[@picketf]

@@dcsco It was mentioned in this very documentary that what the IMF did was to undercut loans in national currencies through various instruments most importantly by insisting on the mutual trade currency for borrowing at a fixed rate being the USD. The main reason why this worked was a lack of liquidity generally prevalent in asian markets. Without liquidity there was no way to grow and printing more money leads to devaluation and even greater trade deficit aka inflation internationally. If the currency however enjoys more trust, like the USD, then printing more money does not directly decrease the value of currency holders as the printing is done more or less through the increase in trust through gov'mnt issued bonds that other nations want to buy to strengthen their own barter position when trading internationally.

[@rashadrafiq9875]

It’s a good book to read👌🏼 it really does open your 👀 on how American gets what it wants.

[@mR-dc4oq]

@@dcsco recall, in the book, if you didn’t comply, you were a dead man.

[@EdwardAshdown]

This remains in my opinion, the best documentary about central banking that I've seen. Thanks so much for making it; and making it so well!

[@antikokalis]

I still don't' get it. What's the lesson? Economic is too hard

[@Itsaboutthewaterlife]

@@antikokalis Prepare.

[@antikokalis]

@@Itsaboutthewaterlife Good one ;) Thanx

[@dreamdiction]

@@antikokalis Credit creation leads to an over inflated economic bubble of artificially high prices, the bubble eventually bursts, the value of assets crashes and the banks (who created the bubble) use their capital to buy everything at a very low price, therefore every cycle of boom / bust makes the banks richer and they take over the whole world. Bastards !

[@antikokalis]

@@dreamdiction Thank you

[@IndependentPOV]

+ Goedelite Kurt The Japanese version of Princes of the Yen was released in 2001 and the English version in 2003. The film itself is 80% based on this book, but also contains additional research and sources, which includes an attempt to make the film relevant to the present time. Richard Werner has viewed and approved this documentary rendition of his work.

[@gentbar7296]

as informative as it is, it still lacks would be precursors and indicators into..... such narrative stands on a bias... much like "the civil war" etc...

[@julianandressalazar5755]

I am grateful with KZbin's algorithm for bringing me to this masterpiece. Great documentary?

[@readi343]

"Most people have better things to do in their lives than understand the details of Central Banking." -Jerome Powell May 29, 2020

[@patriceortovent6451]

Ignorance kills its bearer, what a way to think, sounds like the myth of 'ignorance is a blessing.' How pitiful to think in such a way.

[@ashthegreat1]

Ignorance is actually a wonderful thing. Don’t underestimate it. You don’t see ostriches running around looting and hating on each other on social media, or fretting about the future or their nest eggs 😂. That’s enough fear-porn for you Patrice. Time to put the devices down and just be.

[@tobybrown1179]

But the understanding of the secret bankers and their monopolies are suppressed and should be taught

[@nachannachle2706]

Chairman Powell has no idea how wrong he is. People are waking up, day by day in 2020.

[@Omariau]

It's a dishonest quote on your part, the context of that quote goes against what you are trying to imply actually. I have a big distaste for the FED policies in the last two decades but that does not mean we have to be disingenuous.

[@crs7461]

This reminds me so much of what happened in Greece in the early 2000s.I remember I was 20 years old and a bank came in to the company I was working and just gave everyone - 350 people- credit cards without us asking... Every business could expand with loans, everyone was eligible..

[@MrNecryptic]

Poor Greece, still hadn't recovered honestly. I don't think any country will "recover" anymore. It only gets worse from here friend, stay strapped.

[@johnecoapollo7]

I remember this only very faintly cause I was 6-10 years old but yeah, the similarity is very eerie

[@marybailey7881]

Could someone explain to me if Professor Richard Werner is a Keynesian who believes in Quantitative Easing policies similar to what we have seen during 2020-2022? I have watched this documentary several times, and I am confused why everyone seems to think this guy is great, if his beliefs are inflating an economy by devaluation of its currencies. This is good for rich people , as we have seen in 2020-2022, but bad for middle class and poor people who are NOT invested in the stock markets. Am I missing something here or does he not clearly advocate for this policy? Why everyone here seems to think this is a great idea?

[@keithhogg7228]

@@marybailey7881 Prof Richard Werner believes in QE to provide credit stimulus to small businesses thus generating economic prosperity without inflation. However, central planners have since used it to purchase non-productive asset classes & government debt with inflationary consequences (the polar opposite of what he intended). He believes in having lots of small local banks to lend to small local businesses; central planners believe in having one large bank, which only lends to large corporations (economic fascism).

[@dishboy14]

@@marybailey7881Japan sadly is doomed. Money printing (QE) just slows the death. All FIAT currencies will go to zero, the YEN will be the first in the G7 to do so.

[@iceflame1167]

USA: you work for us or we try you as war criminal. Japanese war criminal: can i be the prime minister of Japan? USA: YES

[@iliashornung3178]

Just like nazi's went to work for the cia , nasa and nato. Operation Paperclip. Reinhard Gehlen , Klaus Barbie, Skorzeny( also mossad), von Kielmansegg, Kurt Waldheim, Adolf Heusinger , Hans Speidel, Wernher von Braun, Arthur Rudolph , Hermann Oberth, etc. Also Japanes warcriminals from Unit 731 went to work for the US army. Unit 731 murdered millions of Chinese ( massacre/rape of Nanking etc )

[@chaddy2409]

@@iliashornung3178 thats exactly the people they want, killer machines

[@VVeltanschauung187]

They are war criminals on what charges? For being the enemy?

[@lincolnhaldorsen5649]

@@VVeltanschauung187 it doesn’t matter whether they are war criminals or not, the United States just use it as a useless threat to get them to comply

[@Cristy0505]

@@VVeltanschauung187 My friend, anyone can be indicted of any crime. "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime" - Lavrentiy Beria

[@pauljameslowe]

Absolutely fascinating documentary about Japan’s economic growth thru the decades. I have a huge interest in economics and monetary policy; Although, I’ve never been to college. I feel like I have learned so much from watching this film. Thank you to whomever shared this. 👍👍

[@arjunchatterjee9362]

Me too! (not the faux jewish metoo currently rife everywhere). I dropped out of college because our business collapsed during the 2008-09 financial crisis and have a learned a great deal online. I think it is better than any class I would have taken, so I am better off that way.

[@markwhite7405]

Take each claim and try and think about what the evidence is for that claim..... Not much

[@TheSteinbitt]

Huge interest in conspiracy and low educational attainment, you’re the target audience here:)

[@pxh6129]

@@TheSteinbitt Sure, now show me some "high educational attainment", which contains "approved facts from certified experts", if you insist. Then I will decide for myself what's better at holding the truth

[@marybailey7881]

Could someone explain to me if Professor Richard Werner is a Keynesian who believes in Quantitative Easing policies similar to what we have seen during 2020-2022? I have watched this documentary several times, and I am confused why everyone seems to think this guy is great, if his beliefs are inflating an economy by devaluation of its currencies. This is good for rich people , as we have seen in 2020-2022, but bad for middle class and poor people who are NOT invested in the stock markets. Am I missing something here or does he not clearly advocate for this policy? Why everyone here seems to think this is a great idea?

[@lightkudobebegigi]

Really good documentary. This is not just about Japan. It shows the real intension of independent Central Bank. It is worth to sduty.

[@reeve1able]

scarier than any horror movie you've ever seen

[@kdbergselfdiscoveryat4865]

Yes unfortunately but true

[@tigeriontigerion9112]

Yes. We are living in a distopia, like people in Matrix.

[@t4nkman]

Humanity is being played for fools... & I suppose we are fools because we allow it to continue. Sad...

[@408Magenta]

humanati Watch how you spend your currency. The best way to fight back is to hit them where it hurts them the most - their wallets, their cashflow, their Jerk Street predictions (remember those projections of stocks by Wall Street (hoohah!!)).

[@GerNiels]

There is a reason this issue is rarely talked about in the media. Almost none of my friends and family are even truly aware of it.

[@youcamehereforthetruth3824]

408Magenta why on earth would somebody have jed bush as their picture. jed bushs lot are the types who are part of this cabbal

[@homebrandrules]

humanati its hard to know to change a behaviour or something, if you are not cogniscent of its existence

[@homebrandrules]

YOU CAME HERE FOR THE TRUTH turn the d around

[@IndependentPOV]

Still Report #350 -- Princes of the Yen kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJXCmIqur72KZ5Y Mentions email conversation between IMF, Bill Still and Richard Werner, Re Film: Princes of the Yen. Good to see they (IMF) are aware of it. Thanks to everyone for watching and sharing. Lets make everyone aware of this in 2015. The film is being translated into German, Spanish, Greek and Japanese. If you are interested in translating contact us. We are also making dubbed versions of the film (German, Spanish and possibly Greek. And possibly more if we have the translations) If you would like to hold a screening, we're working on free screening packs, follow us on facebook for updates when they're ready. Happy 2015 to everyone

[@jomellramirez6327]

Can you reupload? Link down

[@patriceortovent3337]

Great documentary, watched it three times to make sure nothing escape my understanding on such captivating subject. A lot to learn from it and great shots of Japan.

[@peter.knupffer]

I'm glad the internet is sharing this knowledge far and wide

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

It's amazing that this amazing documentary has not yet been deleted by US of A.

[@jamesdean7756]

They try to not be too obvious

[@jono_ok]

Countries do not delete KZbin videos. The creator or mods do.

[@jamesdean7756]

@@jono_ok KZbin censors dummy. Wake up

[@jono_ok]

@@jamesdean7756 KZbin ≠ 'US of A'

[@secrets.295]

They can't delete it by law, unless the video has a copyright strike or the video has too many thumbs down or reports from the viewers that the video is too violent or spam, etc. Doesn't seem likely this video will get any of these.

[@iboibrahims93383]

One of my favourite docos of all time. Thank you to the creators!!

[@IndependentPOV]

Japanese subtitles added. Thanks to the translator Shinbo Abo (Shanti Phula shanti-phula.net/ja/ )

[@drsnooz8112]

This is a great video documenting what every country in the world has experienced in some way or other. The moral of the story is: if you give bankers control of your economy, they'll destroy it, then come steal all your stuff.

[@miggrodriguez9996]

Just watch the film/documentary, based on Mr Werner’s book. I now want to read the book. Fascinating history of how the powerful men that head the top financial institutions are guide by greed and money hunger disregarding the lower classes. Thank you for sharing this eye-opener film .

[@constanthonesty9937]

I live in Japan. This had me motivate to have it translated into Japanese up until around minute 53. Central banking IS NOT free market economics!!! The US is under the same problem Japan is, Central Bank control (i.e. authoritarian monetary control), with the global reserve currency twist--but the reckoning of the central banking thievery is coming soon to the US too, unfortunately. Who do I talk to about 1) translating this to Japanese, and 2) correcting the economic lie at minute 53?

[@lateralus6512]

In the yin and yang symbol the white has a little black and the black has a little white. The truth often has a fraction of untruth and the lies often have a small amount of truth.

[@LaoZi2023]

Are you making the assertion that the central banking system is a plutocracy rather than a free market economy? Was that your point? (Authoritarian money control) There are plenty of people that can translate this movie. I too live in Japan, by the way.

[@zurinarctus1329]

This is slightly different. The United States still had politics in mind, so they won't allow corporate America to get above the government. The Federal Reserve is being private is the best thing that the US government and political factions can allow. Corporate American becomes like British East India or Dutch East India is definitely a big no-no for the US government. The US Treasury and Federal Reserve are the weapons of the United States to maintain the global hegemony for decades. In the case of Japan, the US created the facade of a miracle economy to rebuild Japan as a cheap source of manufacturing as well as a geopolitical destination to keep East Asian bloc firmly in the US sphere. We engineered the Japanese bubble economy by making Japanese bureaucrats believe that Nihon civilization was destined for greatness. The USA purged all smartest Japanese leaders and politicians after the war, who were realists with left-wing leaning, while we allow Japanese ultranationalist fools into power because their idiocy is easy to exploit. Taro Aso and the Aso family are the prime examples of how useful idiots are useful to the Americans. After we successfully made Nihon people having a greatness delusion, our financial firms encouraged their Bank of Japan and Japanese financial firms to do the reckless Keynesian economics. That was how the bubble economy started to get out of control because the USA used Japan to see if Keynesian economics is actually legit. We already know the answers with Japan now collapsed into eternal stagnation. The USA played another dirty trick of de-industrializing Japan to transfer manufacturing into China and Vietnam. The USA casually incited the hatred between Koreans and Japanese to make East Asia eternally unstable, so the American military-industrial complex to sell weapons. We forced Japan to invest all of its remaining wealth into the USA in exchange for Japan becoming the world's net creditor, while their assets are in the American management and control, in truth. If the Japanese people ever dared to revolt against the USA, then the US government will seize all Japanese assets aboard which will cause Japan to become the poorest country in the world within a single day. In politics, the USA controls both the LDP and Imperial Family Agency. LDP cronies are our bitches and the Imperial Family are our prisoners who now rapidly outlive their usefulness. America is probably the most insidious nation in the planet who devised all malevolent ways to keep the number one status. This is why China has been working on a plan to destroy the US because the Americans will target China next after it utterly siphoned Japan and South Korea to death.

[@totalfreedom1282]

"free market" economies are oxymoronic, no market is "free" if they were they wouldn't be a market. The things people sell aren't "free" there are very expensive barriers to entry. TLDR: Capitalism isn't "free" it's very expensive, and any form of capitalism is oppressive. Also for any nerds who want to talk about the USSR. They had wage labour and shit tonnes of exports, as well as Taylorism, I'm not for that economic system, Anarcho syndicalism/mutualism/anarcho communism are what I'm advocating for

[@toby417]

Jews by saying we americans? If not I don't see the point of your whole comment

[@abbamtenga2438]

I have been predicating this for years now. Finally someone has taken the step to point it out.. Within international circles of people that I know I came to learn a lot about the financial manipulations that were happening world wide.. And this is just scratching the surface.. This video is a gem

[@marybailey7881]

Could someone explain to me if Professor Richard Werner is a Keynesian who believes in Quantitative Easing policies similar to what we have seen during 2020-2022? I have watched this documentary several times, and I am confused why everyone seems to think this guy is great, if his beliefs are inflating an economy by devaluation of its currencies. This is good for rich people , as we have seen in 2020-2022, but bad for middle class and poor people who are NOT invested in the stock markets. Am I missing something here or does he not clearly advocate for this policy? Why everyone here seems to think this is a great idea?

[@TheFlagDude]

the original Zeitgeist especially the part about modern money mechanics way back in 2008 changed all my views

[@fpscanada3862]

wow.. that was 2008 when that film came out? feels like a short time ago

[@mwaleed2082]

Link please!!

[@IndependentPOV]

Korean subtitles added, thanks to the translator Joon Sik Jung.

[@bjxneet]

your work is most appreciated thank you so much for this wonderful piece of documentary. it's an eye opening for me

[@IndependentPOV]

+oki haykal Thanks

[@Break1815]

+QueuePolitely Absolutly fantastic, , Kudos , muchas gracias

[@mohitajay69]

oki haykal i

[@atilamatamoros7499]

Formidable presentation. No wonder USA and EU are so worried about Russia and China. The captive countries may move in another direction.

[@marybailey7881]

Could someone explain to me if Professor Richard Werner is a Keynesian who believes in Quantitative Easing policies similar to what we have seen during 2020-2022? I have watched this documentary several times, and I am confused why everyone seems to think this guy is great, if his beliefs are inflating an economy by devaluation of its currencies. This is good for rich people , as we have seen in 2020-2022, but bad for middle class and poor people who are NOT invested in the stock markets. Am I missing something here or does he not clearly advocate for this policy? Why everyone here seems to think this is a great idea?

[@atilamatamoros7499]

REITERATING

[@marybailey7881]

@@atilamatamoros7499 It doesn't make sense how "Quantitative Easing" would ever be beneficial to anyone but the rich. I would call this a "controlled opposition documentary" as it appears somewhat in this documentary like he is on the side of the Austrian economists, but he is not, he is for Q.E. and I have heard also "pioneered" the concept of Q.E. This has done nothing but benefit the rich and rob the middle class and poor via inflation. It certainly has propped up the stock markets though, which I am sure he was benefiting greatly. Just another question...he did say , I heard him, but I don't know if he was quoting someone else's words, but he said "Why are you not printing more money!?" is that indeed what he said to someone with regards to the Bank of Japan? Why he said this, if so?

[@missinformed4269]

A really fine piece of work. The workings of central banking and vulture capitalism made clear.

[@mariussielcken]

It's predatory capitalism. Vultures aren't predatory.

[@alexeypopov3367]

Very good documentary with complex and systematic view and brilliant montage. I just can't say enough how I admire your work.

[@manmeetworld]

This is one of the best documentaries on central banking I've ever seen.

[@DonJuanDM]

I am not surprised. Problem, reaction, and solution is the signature of psychopath grabbing more power.

[@humboldthammer]

Hegelian Dialectic: Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis GOD -- no god -- The NEON GAUD, Lucifer 8.0

[@IndependentPOV]

Uploaded Spanish subtitles, thanks to freelance translator Andrés Arias Uribe

[@krzysztofp2005]

Super dokument i bardzo dobrze ze jest tlumaczenie. Wielkie podziekowania. Pozdrawiam i oczekuje na nastepne dokumentalne filmy z tej dziedziny.❤

[@Oo7Hola]

Stari ovo nije normalno

[@geraldking4080]

House Banking Committee: Chairman Ron Paul: "Chairman Bernanke, will you tell the committee which financial institutions received bailout funds from the Federal Reserve?" Fed Chair Bernanke: "No."

[@Longtack55]

Old Boy's network.

[@218philip]

Gerald King We answer to no government

[@feederdiaries4862]

And the bank just inflated the bubble by 2.2 trillion in the States.

[@heatherk4401]

Prince Bernhard who is an avid hunter and womaniser, founded WWF. Pls watch Fall Cabal documentary by Janet Osseabard.

[@dishboy14]

@@feederdiaries4862make that 1 trillion every 100 days now in 2024😢

[@SM-np2cx]

Great Video.I was working in SE Asia at the time when the financial crisis erupted and was laid off.I never fully understood what happened as things were going on so well before.It is all clear now.The little guy on the street is a mere pawn and has to suffer the consequences of the games the elite powerbrokers play.

[@hamidmalmo7664]

Solar Flare good morning. that was the case since the dawn of men.

[@markrobertmurphysr]

DIDNT THAY TELL U,,,,,,,MONEY WINOR LOSE GOES TO MONEY

[@nicholastrice8750]

Yep.

[@nicholastrice8750]

Yep.

[@かんぐちあき]

Yes, including job loss, homelessness, even suicides :(

[@CRHall-ud9mq]

After watching the 'The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire (Documentary), I understood this film very well! ...Many thanks, Independent POV. :-)

[@Geckoboy1.0]

As the saying goes "Give a Man Gun, he can rob a bank. Give a man a Bank he can rob the wolrd"

[@domiduch4344]

HE WILL

[@busterbiloxi3833]

You use this as an excuse for your own failures.

[@timtreetwats]

I thought it was a law degree

[@TheGhostOperative]

"wolrd" is it like a European bank?

[@petekdemircioglu]

@@TheGhostOperative sorta

[@toddmckissick2931]

It explains exactly why we're in the mess we're in to simply look at the tiny number of views (130K) for such a wonderful, indepth documentary on exactly how central banks get their tentacles into every country. This should be mandated viewing prior to partaking in ANY conversation with another rational person. It's that pervasive. (1:32 slow to start but brings it all together quick.)

[@RonHarveySC]

the central bank system is at the center of the problems we face now.

[@RobinEvans1234]

Capitalism is the cause of all our problems. The richest people in the world make most of their money through capital gains. The IMF and the World Bank are just tools to control the global political economy. Just like how governments and military are tools for controlling the global political economy. As long as we have a system of hierarchy, it will be run by those at the top, to suit those at the top.

[@toddmckissick2931]

Robin Evans Actually, capitalism has nothing much to do with it. Like the IMF and World Bank, it too is just being used a certain way by those above. If you knew how much was robbed from society by any 'ism', you would see that simply returning that to the people who earned it would make any system work 100 times better than any system does now. For example, pick any social or economically separate groups. Now tell me how each group would live/act differently if a) wages were 5 times as high and b) prices were half. The short answer is that all social welfare issues go away as people can now support a family of 4 on a single fast food wage. No unemployment costs, no SSN, no disgruntled people becoming terrorists, no debt spirals and no theft from the poor because they can't afford to pay the extortions often placed on them.

[@RobinEvans1234]

Todd McKissick I disagree. I think Karl Marx was bang on. The richest people get most of their money in capital gains. Capital is the governing power over labor and its products. The capitalist possesses this power, not on account of his personal or human qualities, but inasmuch as he is an owner of capital. His power is the purchasing power of his capital, which nothing can withstand. He steals of the people who are forced into an unfair relationship with him. Washington has promoted free trade principles only in sectors that benefit the U.S. economy; in other sectors, like textiles, protectionism reigns… Further liberalization in selected issues, old and new, will give Northern corporations more access to the resources of the South, thereby further debilitating the domestic economies of developing countries. The global political economy only suits the established states who have deeply entrenched infrastructure and governing institutions that allows them to extract cheap resources and labor from less established states. Capitalism has created a form of legal and Imperial exploitation. The "free market" has no boarders. A staggering 70 per cent of all international trade is controlled by a mere 500 corporations. The state of our world is increasingly being determined in the boardrooms of these companies rather than by national governments... deregulation is all and corporations can seek their profit wheresoever they wish in the happy, clappy global market. All too often this means seeking the workers who can be paid the lowest wages. Basically; every single thing Marx predicted has come to be. Consumers create jobs, not capitalists. thevoiceofanarchy.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/libertarian-socialist-rants-videos/

[@thedude6664]

Todd McKissick I disagree. libertarian socialism is a participatory economic system. Majority rules. I think Karl Marx was bang on. The richest people get most of their money in capital gains. Capital is the governing power over labor and its products. The capitalist possesses this power, not on account of his personal or human qualities, but inasmuch as he is an owner of capital. His power is the purchasing power of his capital, which nothing can withstand. He steals of the people who are forced into an unfair relationship with him. Washington has promoted free trade principles only in sectors that benefit the U.S. economy; in other sectors, like textiles, protectionism reigns… Further liberalization in selected issues, old and new, will give Northern corporations more access to the resources of the South, thereby further debilitating the domestic economies of developing countries. The global political economy only suits the established states who have deeply entrenched infrastructure and governing institutions that allows them to extract cheap resources and labor from less established states. Capitalism has created a form of legal and Imperial exploitation. The "free market" has no boarders. A staggering 70 per cent of all international trade is controlled by a mere 500 corporations. The state of our world is increasingly being determined in the boardrooms of these companies rather than by national governments... deregulation is all and corporations can seek their profit wheresoever they wish in the happy, clappy global market. All too often this means seeking the workers who can be paid the lowest wages. Basically; every single thing Marx predicted has come to be. Consumers create jobs, not capitalists. The only way to achieve these things you talk of is for the community to own production with a participatory economic system. thevoiceofanarchy.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/libertarian-socialist-rants-videos/ In participatory economics, if someone has an idea for a business they pitch it at a council meeting. There is democracy in all places that effect ones life. Democracy at work council, democracy at community council, all the way up to the top. Everyone is born into an even playing field were effort and productivity and creativity is rewarded. Earning respect from your work mates will get you further than having the contacts in management. People would have much greater freedom to shape their community. There is full transparency on production costs. Full employment can be achieved. It is a resource based economy.

[@ThomasGalgana-wq7zc]

I majored in economics and finance from one of the best universities in the world. This is one of the best documentaries in history. This documentary is unbelievable. He tells exactly exactly how it is and what happened I love Japan.

[@SupportAndDefend]

Once we've seen what's going on 'behind the curtain', it's all so obvious. Question is: Do we have the courage to do the right thing?

[@anumba1]

not until his kingdom comes, Jesus.

[@james3876]

No

[@ingevankeirsbilck9601]

First things first : protect your own personal wealth so you sleep better at night. Next, wake up the sheeple 😉

[@staninjapan07]

Thank you very much for posting this. I try to follow _real_ economics as it were, but I certainly learned many new things from this about Japan, where I live. Time to buy the book by Mr. Werner. Glad to see there are also perfect English subtitles (for my Japanese wife to follow this in English). Many thanks.

[@user-rc4jz9dy1i]

Same story, different time, different place. Never fails to be equally rage inducing. The dissolution of a nationalized banking system and the installment of a private central bank. When you look at history, this struggle between the nation and the banking cartel has been the strongest force against/for(?) civilization in history. Always ends the same, a consolidation of power into an entity foreign to the host nation.

[@marybailey7881]

Could someone explain to me if Professor Richard Werner is a Keynesian who believes in Quantitative Easing policies similar to what we have seen during 2020-2022? I have watched this documentary several times, and I am confused why everyone seems to think this guy is great, if his beliefs are inflating an economy by devaluation of its currencies. This is good for rich people , as we have seen in 2020-2022, but bad for middle class and poor people who are NOT invested in the stock markets. Am I missing something here or does he not clearly advocate for this policy? Why everyone here seems to think this is a great idea?

[@IndependentPOV]

Support more documentaries like the Princes of the Yen, One off donations through Liberapay: liberapay.com/IndependentPOV Monthly donations through Patreon: www.patreon.com/independentdocumentaryBitcoin: 3M89ao9jf4cc9g68r5nVHLHwztgh88Gy52 It takes 2 years to create a documentary of this quality!

[@secrets.295]

U did a brilliant job though

[@fascistphilosophy5649]

god bless your souls for Truth

[@fascistphilosophy5649]

a negative income tax, issuing money to poorer individuals (especially on a monthly basis,) would both increase circulation of money and alleviate poverty. ...presumably work much better than injecting via loans to the rich. Seems poverty is an essential part in 'their' schemes.. I suspect it would establish a revolutionary middle class, which would be bad for 'them'..

[@drokmo]

Thanks to Hugh Henry & Richard Werner that we get a glimpse of the real world we live in.

[@MikikoHigashi]

This documentary is based on "Princes of the Yen" written by Richard A. Werner. It's a book written about 20 years ago.

[@marybailey7881]

Could someone explain to me if Professor Richard Werner is a Keynesian who believes in Quantitative Easing policies similar to what we have seen during 2020-2022? I have watched this documentary several times, and I am confused why everyone seems to think this guy is great, if his beliefs are inflating an economy by devaluation of its currencies. This is good for rich people , as we have seen in 2020-2022, but bad for middle class and poor people who are NOT invested in the stock markets. Am I missing something here or does he not clearly advocate for this policy? Why everyone here seems to think this is a great idea?

[@SoaringSuccubus]

@@marybailey7881 I think people are just ready to jump on the "free lunches are possible" and conspiratorial bandwagons, especially if the two are combined. Idk about Werner other than this doc but indeed it seems he does not think there is such a thing as bad credit outside conspiracies (despite multiple times refering to them, eg Japanese banks after WWII holding useless war-bonds). Whenever one has lived outside their means, austerity is the necessary outcome, just as jumping up results in landing down. Telling someone to brace for landing and living inside their means (eg Euro dept crisis austerity) is not manufacturing a crisis lol. Laziness (obesity) takes pain to treat (working out and controlling diet). Same in economy. This isn't a conspiracy. No free lunches.

[@BerndGSchneider]

@@marybailey7881 Just neither mix the excellent description and explication of what has happened nor press it in a theory and the outcome for the normal people who have no clue how to invest their private money according to their own responsibility and by the way do never believe in MMT and in the WEF!

[@Retrofire-47]

@@marybailey7881 Werner rubs me the wrong way, tbh... I won't elaborate on why because it becomes self-evident.

[@KINGOFOUTWEST]

Great film spent my workday watching. Kept me wanting to see more.

[@RockstahRolln]

Incredible work!! I am going to share this to many sleeping sheep

[@かんぐちあき]

Yep, surreptitiously inserting this video into my unrelated playlists to increase viewings (to those unsuspected sleeping populous... 😴🐑

[@ryansperception]

Unfortunately they won’t wake

[@martinfederico7269]

That’s what I and most of the people who watch this documentary have thought and done, still naively hoping they will watch it, when we know they won’t. Maybe if it was 3 minutes long they would, but even then I’d doubt it.

[@niklaspotter7003]

The damage economists have done is truly incredible

[@noneofyourbusiness5433]

What an outstanding doco this was!!!! Well done! I live in Aus and we are currently in the thick of it. Property along the east coast has risen to ridiculous levels. Interest rates have been the lowest ever and we have a property "bubble". Now after watching it happen the central bank is suddenly concerned and has told the banks to restrict lending. The only thing we had going was a construction boom, which has led to an over supply in apartments along the east coast. As credit growth slows, as it will due to the restrictions, plus the over supply issue, and the fact we have the second highest household debt levels on the planet......it seems there is only one possible outcome. These cunts are trying to create a one world government.....and it's working.

[@davkevful]

This is why the founders of our Constitution in the USA made a point of telling its citizens to never let these fools ever get a hold of the money supply and the food supply...NO ONE LISTENED.

[@markrobertmurphysr]

TAHTS BECWASE' JAPAN WAS ONLY PAYING 25% OF COMITMINTS OF US ARMED FORCES ' REQWIRED ' MAINTENCE OF WAR SHIPS;DEVELOPMINT/TEKNOLIGY- AS PROTECTION [REGURDING USA AHGREMINTS[WWII]- WE PROVIDED GOLD DEPOSETS [ LOAN ] TO REBUILD. THUS TRUMP ' DEMANDED MORE LAST YR WHN ELECTED,,,,,,,50/50

[@Michael--12]

Yes, what many know as central banks or world bankers, the Rothschilds, Bilderbergs , Rockefellers , illuminati, Freemasons, elite, ect., are Satan's children, the Kenites or sons of Cain. Our Heavenly Father tells us who these people are all throughout the bible. In both old and new testaments. When Jesus was talking to the seven churches of these end times in Rev CH 2 & 3, only two of these churches Jesus found no fault with. Both these churches know of and teach who those are that say they are Jews ( of our brother Judah ), and are not, but do lie and are of the synagogue of Satan ( Rev CH 2:9 & 3:9). And they are bringing about the first beast in Rev CH 13 ( the one world political system ), and ushering in their father satan. After the first beast (NWO) in Rev CH 13 actually comes into being, it will receive a deadly wound, or fall apart. ( Rev CH 13 ). Then the 2nd beast in Rev CH 13 will heal the deadly wound. This beast is none other than satan himself. He ( satan ) will heal the deadly wound and come claiming to be Jesus ( God ), 2 Thess CH 2. Now it will be a one world religious system. This will happen at 666, the 6th seal, the 6th trump, and the 6th vial. The true Christ, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ doesn't return until the last trump, the 7th. Satan wants to be worshipped by all. He will be very deceptive and supernatural. Rev CH 12:9 says he will deceive the whole world. Rev CH 13:13 - 14 says , he will work miracles and bring fire ( lightning ) down from heaven to the earth in the sight of men, and will deceive those that dwell on earth by means of those miracles. So we see they will succeed with their plan and goal , of a one world political system ; for it is written.

[@shafirahaman]

@randommental The world is working for 1% and they are pleased to announce the Arrivals of the Antichrist. The atom bomb is not a Joke and the Economy bomb either. The one world. Government is the Govenmnet of Aliens (The Jinn). The Quran explained it in very clearly, we are after all born to die. And DIE to give our accounts of our worldly life to our CREATOR (There is only One GOD).

[@garviniantso]

Revisiting this comment a year later. Credit has been restricted, and property prices have fallen 8% nationally over the past year.

[@Entanon]

This is a great piece of work. It is such a relief to see a refutation of central bank short sightedness via debt creation and money printing, and to hear an academic economist who actually started life working in the real money/commodity markets. I'm not that sympathetic to mindless mobs chanting about the 1%, but nor am I sympathetic to the Soros of this world amassing easy money at our expense, then pulling political strings way beyond what democratic government intended. This documentary charts an even course between those two poles, and warrants its observations with simple facts, every step of the way. On top of that, the photography of Japan is worth watching as a movie in its own right, and the music is just as good.

[@learnedhand7647]

? The Japanese Window guidance was originally using Keynesian policies, the concept of causing the banks to fail is a reflection of Friedman's "shock doctrine" which is a strategy of neoliberalism. I believe you are confusing Keynesian economics and neoliberalism aka the Chicago School of Thought. I agree with you that this is a stellar piece of work, but that's because it is showing shock doctrine in action, and some of it's implications, but mostly because it shines a light on it's goal and how it advances the 1%.

[@Entanon]

Well, I wrote sloppily, so it was very misleading. What I was glad to see was the invalidation of Keynsian policy, where profligate use of debt and money printing, is used to, allegedly, escape from economic problems, by promoting economic growth. I'm no economic expert, but that attitude seems to take short-termism to a whole new level, of a psychological disease.

[@learnedhand7647]

So despite watching this video, you think that Friedman's form of neoliberalism has improved the economy of Japan compared to their original Keynesian policies? As far as i can remember this documentary was more about the power of central banks, and how the austerity measures and privatization forced onto states by central banks perpetuate their bankruptcy. You can take the word Japan in this video, and replace it with Greece, Spain, Puerto Rico, etc, and you'll find that the story is still applicable. I might have to watch this documentary again, i got a completely different message out of it. Perhaps it's because I understand how both of those theories work, and this director was kind enough to just state the facts leaving out all of the isms from the conversation. Keynesian policy is about reinvesting of funds during good times, and during recessions to create jobs programs, and infrastructure investments to put money back into the circular flow of revenue. It is not about throwing away money flooding the markets with nonelastic cash, that's partly how the Great Depression was created. If you had actually watched this, they were aware of this, remember they were literally trying to create a banking crisis so that they could restructure it.

[@learnedhand7647]

Just out of complete curiosity, have you read *General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money* by Keynes, or any of his other books like Economic Consequences? I'm just curious where you get your concept of Keynesian theory comes from. If you would like to actually read General Theory, you can read it here: cas2.umkc.edu/economics/people/facultypages/kregel/courses/econ645/winter2011/generaltheory.pdf

[@Entanon]

"So despite watching this video, you think that Friedman's form of neoliberalism has improved the economy of Japan compared to their original Keynesian policies? " I never said that. I only rejected the 'Keynsian' policy of a accepting attitude to increasing national debt, money printing and statism / interventionism, and you assumed that I therefore promoted the opposite. But the so-called free market is also a siren like myth. Both extremes are wrong, so what is the answer? Well, I can reject alchemy without giving you the periodic table. In fact, I don't have the periodic table in this case, but I like to see patently wrong ideas tried and proved wanting. The point is, as Hayek pointed out, it was as if Keynes was raised to sainthood after his death, and I know things have changed since then, but there are still a hard core of zealots that defend his theories as if dogma - and, as I said, its a relief to see this thinking kicked in a bit. But of course, the hard core will just say this video does not show Keynsian policies at all. Keynes was a very complex man so I am certainly not going to comment on him, or critique a lifetime's work in a KZbin post. He even said the following, which could come right out of the mouth of a neocon: "Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose" I couldn't have put it better myself :-)

[@joshshepherd5660]

As a side note to all the relevant information in this video; I can remember as a kid hearing my parents, the news, and even movies always portraying the Japanese business/economy as the result of intellectual prowus, shrewd business decisions, and generally just the people doing very well. It is absolutely fascinating and....honestly terrifying...to know that we are all subject to the whims of Central banking. Personally I responded to this knowledge years ago by refusing to have any part of loans or credit. I will never be wealthy but I will always be free. Fuck their whims.

[@dustybahLs]

U will own nothing and like it 😆

[@whiteyfisk9769]

Well now youre just being anti-semitic

[@imhassane]

@@whiteyfisk9769 you are the goat 😂

[@rabbiezekielgoldberg2497]

@@whiteyfisk9769 If refusing to go into debt is anti-semitic, then we need more people refusing to go into debt.

[@BitcoinerPhilippines]

@@dustybahLs bitcoin

[@pahakuutti]

Central banks will crash the economies of "independent" nations until their central banks are made" independent". This is why we now have 201 and 19.

[@warden902]

✡️

[@Daithi333]

Hugh Hendry and RealVision brought me here

[@damonwright608]

Me too! Just about to watch this now.

[@revorocks123]

Same, I had never heard of this until Hugh brought it up!

[@jasonkolb7304]

Same, this is fascinating. Anyone know who originally made this?

[@danlindy9670]

Yup. Raoul Pal has some fantastic guests. This is brilliant: "It is the crisis that convinces citizens and interest groups of the need for change... And the best way to create it is to have a bubble, because that's how nobody stops you." The problem is, no crisis will ever be big enough to force governments to scrap the central banks and switch to hard currency. (Why save for a rainy day when you've got an unlimited line of credit and future generations to pay it off?)

[@MrPrescamacho]

Same

[@darrenphillips4799]

there was a guy named Smedley, retired marine general, he orchestrated the overthrew of 23 governments in 1910-20 era. All in central, south america. He said they'd broadcast a false panic, tell people to "stay inside for two weeks". In those two weeks they'd install a new government. I always thought of that back in March of this year, when we kept being told "self quarantine for 2 weeks".

[@jayh9529]

Darren Phillips smedley butler ,war is a racket audiobook on utube

[@rogerjack9053]

That.s what happened in my country Romania in 1989 ..after 30 yrs we still not figured it out

[@joannhudson4767]

Unfortunately this is affecting all in America today. So the only way out is to kick the oligarchs out! 🤔💭

[@MrSWGrant]

Can you give me his full name so I can look into this smedley fellow

[@jayh9529]

simon grant smedley butler

[@donaldverani3794]

This documentary has completely changed my opinion on Brexit! I’m now a supporter of Britain to leave the European Union and maintain its independence 🤔👌🏾

[@Pilotalphapapa]

Donald Verani the UK doesn’t use the Euro they have their own central bank

[@donaldverani3794]

A P It’s the influence of the European Central Bank on the creation of polices that will affect all EU members that worry me! Germany has the biggest Economy in Europe and henceforth has the greatest influence on the European Central Bank...

[@es8559]

EU WAS FOUNDED BY AN ACTUAL 3RD REICH NAZI AND BUILT ON NAZI PRINCIPLES OF GLOBAL CONTROL. EU=NAZI HEGIMONY. HEGGT1T7SWK.

[@willlawrence8756]

Wasn't the reason the ERG wanted the UK to leave was because the EU wants to bring in the Tobin/financial transactions tax? If we leave/when we leave, it will still leave offshore accounts which anyone can open in the UK City of London. All a scam, in or out!

[@williamdunnamjr972]

jack brandt SE is just spouting the nonsense he/she learned in the “education system” setup to obfuscate the truth. Or perhaps they are an agent of the people who wish to obfuscate the truth.

[@finarfin9939]

The pattern of boom and bust is uncanny with one caveat. Japan had faced issues that the western world is facing, a few decades later.

[@guyindecatur]

Thomas Jefferson warned the young nation of exactly that - boom and bust.

[@allenazar8609]

They should be teaching this in public schools.

[@siddhantkhorjuvekar]

This brings me to my mind Role of our Indian central bank and it's governor Raghuram Rajan. Who used to be former IMF advisor , PhD from MIT and many other degrees was made central Bank chief..... He too was arguing that government is interfering in central banks role and asking for its independence . Little did we know what was going on behind closed doors...

[@killermachine6454]

Can you please explain more i am interested

[@sumonechan8514]

These are the things that you guys should pay attention to. Have you guys noticed about the headlines of Economic Times about India lately? It's all doom and glooms and then chanting for more privatization and de-nationalization. Are there any news that drew away the attention of the India population lately? Death of some celebrities may be?

[@dvms75]

The stage is clear. The way out is through hard and independent work. Become successful and ignite change from a position of well-intentioned power. If your principles and values are rock solid, you will greatly contribute to shape a better world.

[@oinkooink]

The alternative is to spend half your life watching TV, the other half schlepping your way through a job you hate and the other half half drinking as much alcohol as you can, buying things online like it's going out of style, taking drugs and watching porn.

[@akirakurusu4215]

🤣

[@carpenter3069]

What an excellent example of what journalism can be. The IMF needs to be held accountable.

[@wasabiginger6993]

They are above any laws, so not possible

[@milesharris5315]

This was an amazing documentary. Must order the book. Well done Richard Werner.

[@pecfree]

Richard Warner is a hero in my books after watching this. And central banks are controlled by the kosher tribe. They want to exterminate the getils

[@muftiwicaksono7914]

@@pecfree why your comments still here? That's pro-memetic.

[@marybailey7881]

Could someone explain to me if Professor Richard Werner is a Keynesian who believes in Quantitative Easing policies similar to what we have seen during 2020-2022? I have watched this documentary several times, and I am confused why everyone seems to think this guy is great, if his beliefs are inflating an economy by devaluation of its currencies. This is good for rich people , as we have seen in 2020-2022, but bad for middle class and poor people who are NOT invested in the stock markets. Am I missing something here or does he not clearly advocate for this policy? Why everyone here seems to think this is a great idea?

[@mandmharris7024]

@@marybailey7881 oh & yes he pioneered the concept of QE but did so within a model to benefit the real economy. He never signed off on the methods currently under adoption, and was in fact deeply critical of their likelihood for generating high inflation.

[@marybailey7881]

@@mandmharris7024 It doesn't make sense how Q.E. is ever beneficial , except those at the top. I would call this a "controlled opposition documentary" as it appears somewhat in this documentary like he is on the side of the Austrian economists, but he is not, he is for Q.E. and as you said "pioneered" the concept of Q.E. This has done nothing but benefit the rich and rob the middle class and poor via inflation. It certainly has propped up the stock markets though, which I am sure he was benefiting greatly. Just another question...he did say , I heard him, but I don't know if he was quoting someone else's words, but he said "Why are you not printing more money!?" is that indeed what he said to someone with regards to the Bank of Japan? Why he said this, if so?

[@darkododig4863]

Amazing documentary thank you Professor Werner for this! God bless you for your hard work and for exposing the truth.

[@torisolomon4455]

Had to come back and revisit this after learning more about the Great Reset and the plan for Central Bank Digital Currencies. It grants Central Banks control over society sought after by the Japanese Central Bank in the documentary

[@MrDonny27]

2020 and this is going on in USA. Cheap money coming to economy. Houses overpriced. Repo market everyday pumping billon into banks.Stock market at all time high.

[@stephenverchinski409]

Overpriced military offense complex, overpriced equity into fossil fuels, overpriced housing and autos. This is a crisis in governance. There is no accountability.

[@dinosaurusdog9118]

it already started 10 yrs ago buddy. we are only half way there.

[@thelastaustralian7583]

shoehead_82 Captivated still within its seemingly sub conscious dominant evolution. The Homo Sapiens continue to express behaviour consciously of Self destruction.

[@humboldthammer]

Many are waking up. but they still do not see the Luciferian deceit. Next, it's WAR: God vs God vs God vs God vs Not God -- every desperate nation for itself . . . in the Name of GAUD (Matthew 7: 22) Grand Architect of Ur Destruction -- Abraham's Ur. THEN, on 09/23/26, the Jubilee to forgive ALL OUR DEBTS. Hint: Lucifer 8.0, the Neo Eon Currencies, and the Plan to Perfect Humanity.

[@edinnorthcarolina--ovelhog5786]

Truth.

[@IndependentPOV]

Italian subtitles added, thanks to the translator Mario Palla.

[@Manero666]

apppalla marioooo!!!!

[@gentbar7296]

do they get a nugget ????

[@Cornel1001]

"EU has an interest in weakening the the central governments" as strange may sound,I am supporter of this concept in case Romania. Our government is biggest problem in our country. Regarding the "yen story" is one of the best economic lesson in my life. I will watch again and again.

[@chaddy2409]

You dont want to be ruled by the EU, it will be even worse!

[@PorgyGeorgy1]

Lol Fellow Romanian here, and I agree. Let's hope AUR won't win the elections.

[@Cornel1001]

A party came and go ! The socialist party did not go from power in the last 30 years ! This is a huge problem !

[@PorgyGeorgy1]

@@Cornel1001 It's because we live in a mafia state. And all the good, competent people leave the country, and we're left mostly with the rot. But I am afraid that AUR wants to take us out of the EU to do Russia's bidding.

[@mAthXjAzz]

And now, after the near collapse of the centralbank system at the end of 2019, these criminals play now the C19 card.

[@whiteyfisk9769]

The worlds economy crashed in 2008. We've just been on life support ever since and the plebs kept in the dark until the elites have exited the ship and are in the life-boats

[@paavokuronen87]

Bravo! Great film. I think this reveals some of the fundamental dynamics at work in our society. It seems to explain so much. With this information things begin to make sense...

[@marybailey7881]

Could someone explain to me if Professor Richard Werner is a Keynesian who believes in Quantitative Easing policies similar to what we have seen during 2020-2022? I have watched this documentary several times, and I am confused why everyone seems to think this guy is great, if his beliefs are inflating an economy by devaluation of its currencies. This is good for rich people , as we have seen in 2020-2022, but bad for middle class and poor people who are NOT invested in the stock markets. Am I missing something here or does he not clearly advocate for this policy? Why everyone here seems to think this is a great idea?

[@paavokuronen87]

@@marybailey7881 I don't remember this documentary exactly but I remember it being about the corruption in the central banks. I'm against the inflationary monetary system and central banks altogether. Some aspects of Keynesianism may be applied well, IF the government is somehow controlled by wise and patriotic individuals who are capable of steering the state in a good direction (so far these reliable governments are lacking), but mostly the Austrian school has been better in understanding the market economy. I support the great masses of the people creating independent and decentralized currency systems to counter the central banks.

[@marybailey7881]

@@paavokuronen87 It doesn't make sense how "Quantitative Easing" would ever be beneficial to anyone but the rich. I would call this a "controlled opposition documentary" as it appears somewhat in this documentary like he is on the side of the Austrian economists, but he is not, he is for Q.E. and I have heard also "pioneered" the concept of Q.E. This has done nothing but benefit the rich and rob the middle class and poor via inflation. It certainly has propped up the stock markets though, which I am sure he was benefiting greatly. Just another question...he did say , I heard him, but I don't know if he was quoting someone else's words, but he said "Why are you not printing more money!?" is that indeed what he said to someone with regards to the Bank of Japan? Why he said this, if so?

[@212025510]

I'm happy that you call the EU's interest to create the United States of Europe. That took me a long time to understand. It's not about free markets or free movement of people, it's all about creating a European superstate. And the documentary is extremely interesting, mainly the behaviour of the Bank of Japan and its intentional inflation of the bubble is very interesting.

[@aisdtastdatsbd]

Not just a European superstate, but a European superstate that's controlled by financial firms just like the US.

[@bsant54]

Concluded this on my own decades ago. So very nice to see it all laid out in an everyday person manner of speaking. Kudos to the producers. Now back to my ECB slave state of Italia.

[@whiteyfisk9769]

Stay strong brother. The time will come when we can strike back, we are living in a once in a centruy time. And for the our future descendants and their freedom, please stay strong and make a stand and when its the time...and you'll know when...strike to cause as much damage as possible to """them"""

[@marybailey7881]

Could someone explain to me if Professor Richard Werner is a Keynesian who believes in Quantitative Easing policies similar to what we have seen during 2020-2022? I have watched this documentary several times, and I am confused why everyone seems to think this guy is great, if his beliefs are inflating an economy by devaluation of its currencies. This is good for rich people , as we have seen in 2020-2022, but bad for middle class and poor people who are NOT invested in the stock markets. Am I missing something here or does he not clearly advocate for this policy? Why everyone here seems to think this is a great idea?

[@hedi42]

@@marybailey7881 Richard Werner actually created QE. However, I doubt that it is applied as intended. It's like what happened with US stagflation in the 80's, neoclassical economists took keynesian policies, corrupted them using their fucked up economic models, so misunderstood the real intents, and then when it failed, they blamed Keynes and turned to Friedman. Moreover, Werner has published amazing studies that debunk common misconceptions amoung economists : he is the first to have proven in 2014 that money was created ex nihilo, and in 2018 he wrote a study about how interest rate adjustments don't actually correalate with growth or inflation.

[@marybailey7881]

@@hedi42 I heard a bit in the documentary "Princes of the Yen" where Werner is saying in an interview "I asked them."Why aren't you printing more money!?". Did I understand him right, that was HIS idea that they do that? or was he quoting someone else? As you are stating, he is the one who came up with the whole idea of "creating money out of nothing " and injecting it into an economy to "stimulate it"? mainly it goes to stock markets and real estate markets and benefits the rich, it seems? But the way this documentary is made. it appears that Werner is one of the "Bad guys". I had no idea at first, that he was the one who wrote and i guess also composed the documentary "Princes of the Yen". What made me extra confused is when I looked him up and he had glowing reviews about how "great an economist he is". etc.

[@matthewsheeran]

I like the snake clips throughout naturally inviting comparisons with central bankers. (I didn't pickup on this until the very end.)

[@heatherk4401]

Matthew Sheeran Reptilians/satanic are involved.

[@カラスKarasu]

If this documentary wasn't mind blowing enough, there's a lot more that hasn't been covered, in its source material -- the "Princes of the Yen" book. This documentary explains what happened, but not enough about HOW it happened. The book goes an order-of-magnitude further into the detailed workings of the Japanese economic system: Like how the central bank governors ruled well past their official terms. How they handpicked and groomed their successors, how they kept away from democratic accountability. And lots more! Amazon US doesn't even have a listing for it (no surprise here). In the UK, there is a listing but the books are out of print and the used ones go for £1000+!!! But you can still order a normally priced copy from Quantum Publishers (I'm not affiliated with them). If you have interest in how money works, you absolutely need to read that book. It's a week of reading, but it's structured so well that it makes it easy to read.

[@uncleshan]

Is that book someone without a background in economics and accounting could understand?

[@col2959]

Silent weapons for quiet wars

[@mattematsson554]

There's no need for a bang these days! You only need the index-finger to press "Enter" to eradicate anybody's life.

[@comethoj]

Richard Werner you are amazing!

[@xxivy_dabestxx9615]

He's currently a Professor at Oxford I think. Hasn't changed though. Still speaks truth to power.

[@ebecerra85]

I would kill to have an understudy with this man. I guess his books are the next best thing.

[@golf5476]

@@ebecerra85 his book was most sold in Japan, I think in 2001

[@asg7535]

Immediately subscribed. This is what I was waiting for. 🙌🏿thanks to the people that has made this amazing content.

[@MsMikeytt]

Fantastic documentary! Very informative and interesting. Well researched and communicated in an easy to understand way.

[@kronossonork6994]

Read John Perkins book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman. He was an IMF insider turned whistleblower.

[@davidstanleyolson]

Perkins was a weasle but the book was fascinating.... The bankers will kill anyone who fight the central banks.

[@pecfree]

I love that American economist reporter. He knew what was up and was trying to expose it. A hero

[@pikachu5647]

never knew the banking system related documentary would've kept me glued to the screen the whole time. Please can you guys upload something related to the indian central bank (the reserve bank of india). Love from india to the world and especially the people who created this thought provoking documentary.

[@lokeeb1486]

Share it friend

[@satyakammisra]

No one cares about RBI or Indian central bank. How many Indian banks are n top 10,20,100 list of world banks? Zero

[@DS-xk6yr]

Eye opening. Thanks for making this.

[@GT380man]

This is a superb documentary. Though called Princes of the Yen, it’s really a description, in detail in the case of Japan, much less in Asia and the EU, how it has been that all financial power in the world has fallen to the Bank of International Settlements in Switzerland. Each national central bank is wrongly viewed as somehow owned by that nation. Nothing is further from the truth. Each is privately held. Their agendas are global and directed by a very small group of people. What they’ve accomplished since WW2 is to arrange that all central banks sit under BIS. And that was necessary in order that global CBDC could be introduced & thereby digital tyranny imposed on all the peoples of the world. They’ve known exactly what they were doing. First the takeover of the US financial system over a century ago, to today. An unbroken line of intent. I’m afraid their final objectives are nothing less than tyrannical and I believe diabolical, literally.

[@jonathanneal9399]

Well done masterpiece! The part of the documentary that was most profound to me was at 1:05:30 when Richard Werner is being interviewed on CNBC discussing the "Princes of the Yen" intentions in the 80's "What is the goal of monetary policy? It is to change the economic structure. How do you do that? Well you need a crisis. That is just what the BCJ did" Werner gets cut off and rushed off the interview when making that statement. CNBC can not have the sheeple knowing that Central banks have the power to create artificial bubbles and recessions with the push of a button. Makes me think there may be a global crisis being manufactured at the current moment for economic structure reform.

[@georgiarsenov6442]

Sir, you were absolutely right. The world economic crisis is in front of our doors in 2022. Only God knows what they've planned for all of us.

[@三ッ矢サンダー]

Thank you for the wonderful video about Japanese history and economic development. I want the same Japanese people to watch this video.

[@hydrogreen1111]

Being on the back end of this good times are hard to die. In my neighborhood a slice of property is being sold that measures roughly 8 feet x 45 feet and is selling for around US$95,000. Nothing can actually be built on this slice of land standing next to a huge city concrete water containment facility.

[@jeffreymorris11]

Typo correction: Forensic! Brilliant! Trenchant! A must watch!

[@ShujathHussain0]

i always thought Joker from Dark knight is one of the craziest character I've seen. well now as i see this Doc, bankers/capitalists are nothing less

[@D_Thang]

If you look at it from a different angle the Joker is actually the hero standing up to tyranny.

[@xanderjames8682]

@@D_Thang thought same thing yesterday. A dark knight indeed

[@TeamGambleBMX]

Came for the Central Banking history lesson, stayed for the sea otter edits 👍

[@SantoshKanekar]

QueuePolitely Very clear message and presented in an easily understandable format. Since the documentary started with Japan, it would be have been more complete if it also commented on the recent QE by Japan and Abenomics.

[@marybailey7881]

Could someone explain to me if Professor Richard Werner is a Keynesian who believes in Quantitative Easing policies similar to what we have seen during 2020-2022? I have watched this documentary several times, and I am confused why everyone seems to think this guy is great, if his beliefs are inflating an economy by devaluation of its currencies. This is good for rich people , as we have seen in 2020-2022, but bad for middle class and poor people who are NOT invested in the stock markets. Am I missing something here or does he not clearly advocate for this policy? Why everyone here seems to think this is a great idea?

[@jayearl3591]

@@marybailey7881 if you follow Werner himself and listen to the nuances of this you will see he argues that if a bank expands its balance sheet and thus the supply of money, then the expansion MUST be used for GDP building purposes. If it is misdirected into something unproductive like housing then you will asset bubbles because the money gets trapped in these unproductive assets. So, looking at the UK economy, you'll notice that at a personal level, large loans are generally for mortgages. Houses can't produce anything, and therefore a bubble is created in this sector. It makes sense that credit is expanded with the growth of the economy to maintain price stability. However, if you look at what Central Banks are doing, they are injecting money by purchasing distressed assets as the economy contracts, and this often is not used productively, which is effectively why they struggle to enact their mandates of price stability. (I'm not economist/finance expert so take this with a pinch of salt, and research further, but this is my interpretation)

[@marybailey7881]

@@jayearl3591 he seems like a snake in the grass to me and i think is advocating for the policies that put us where we are today

[@jayearl3591]

@@marybailey7881 What would you do then?

[@marybailey7881]

@@jayearl3591 why do you defend a Zionist, global elite banker?