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How do we reclaim power over our money?
Investigative journalist · Author · Financial economist · Speaker
ⓘMargot Brakel
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ⓘMargot Brakel
This book will change how you look at the euros in your bank account. Why can one person not afford a home despite working hard and saving, while another grows rich in their sleep from rising house prices?
Thomas Bollen holds up a mirror to us as financial authorities. He lays out, accessibly and convincingly, the fundamental issues the debate needs to be about.
Bravo, Mr. Bollen! Finally a book that offers deep insight into our monetary system, the role of the banking cartel, and the reckless rescue of our currency.
Dangerously sharp. Bollen writes about money in a way anyone can understand. If I were a banker, I'd want this book banned.
This book about the unsettling world of big money reads like a thriller. That's how you know it hits home.
Thomas Bollen rubs our noses in the facts. A compelling case for a broad public debate. Politicians, wake up: this is about our future.
Our monetary system regularly triggers major financial crises and misery for millions of ordinary people. This exceptionally clear book dissects the mechanisms behind it and proposes alternatives.
The flood of financial jargon serves to exclude outsiders from the financial world. I do the opposite: I make the world of money and power understandable for any audience — from public talks to conferences, from universities to bank boardrooms.
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Tech billionaires, crypto companies, or the central bank after all — who will seize power over the money of the future?
If everyone really considers the housing crisis this urgent, why can't we manage to solve it?
Together with cartographer Carlijn Kingma and subject-matter experts, I make invisible money flows and power structures visible. The maps are based on multi-year research projects.
If money is water, the monetary system is the economy's irrigation network. Money can flow, freeze, evaporate. This map shows how it really moves through society — and where it gets stuck.
How are mortgage money creation, scarce building land, and sky-high housing prices connected? This map shows the housing crisis isn't a natural phenomenon, but the result of a machine we built ourselves — and can therefore also adjust.
The legal dimension of capitalism, visualized. Depicted in collaboration with legal scholars and civil-society organizations — more to follow soon.
