| Subject: | Re: [socialcredit] Re: Definition of usury. | | Date: | Thursday, July 10, 2008 18:04:30 (+0200) | | From: | Swieto Radosci <radosc @........pl>
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| In reply to: | Message 5458 (written by Per Almgren) |
Thanks Per, 700 people engaged - must be attractive that commitment...
And what ideas stay behind JAK Bank, that make it possible? Is that
commitment a payable or voluntary job?
For me it is also interesting how JAK Bank ideas correspond with Social
Credit movement. Are there any links?
Kristof
Per Almgren pisze:
> Joe Thomson skrev:
>> (Kristof wrote:-) I am sure that people in
>> Sweden are wise enough to know, how much they pay for their credit.
>>
>> (Joe replies:-) Sweden has long been held up as an example of one
>> of the
>> few countries in the world where they do everything right. And I'm not
>> knocking the place, I've never been there to see firsthand, so
>> perhaps it
>> is.
>>
>> Though I strongly suspect that to us what goes on there often looks
>> better
>> from afar than would be the case close up. Just like all the other
>> idyllic lands, in other words.
>>
>> And wise as they may be, I doubt very much whether the Swedes, or
>> anybody
>> else in our world today, really knows how much they pay for their
>> credit.
>>
> The average Swedes doesn't know so much about how much they pay but
> the members of JAK is quite,
> well informed about that. The bank uses about 12 % of their budget to
> inform members about how the
> savings-loan system works, also about the practical administration and
> to some extent about the economy
> in the society. About 2 % of the members does practical work to
> promote the bank and the ideas behind it.
> In the end of 2007 the number of members/owners in the bank was almost
> 35,000 with an annual growth of 5 %.
>
> Per Almgren
>> "Truth in Lending" laws are a great boon to the Consumer in getting a
>> meaningful, comparative interest rate. But as Martin Hattersley
>> observed
>> in his last post the real problem isn't with "interest" or the "interest
>> rate". It lies elsewhere.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Swieto Radosci" <radosc@radosc.x.pl>
>> To: <socialcredit@elistas.com>
>> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 12:41 PM
>> Subject: Re: [socialcredit] Re: Definition of usury.
>>
>>
>>
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