Financial Systems
Financial Opinions
What scholars, writers and speakers argue about money, banking, currency and debt, the ground our financial policy reforms are built on — from videos, articles, books, talks and our own answers — each summarised in its own words and filed by subject.
Personal Awareness
Personal Finance
Foundations of Wealth
- Personal FinanceFoundations of WealthClaim: Wealth Runs on a Metabolic Energy BudgetA video argues financial and career stagnation come from a brain-enforced metabolic energy budget, not from lack of time, desire or discipline.
- Foundations of WealthProtection of wealthIslamic sources treat wealth as a trust from Allah: lawfully earned, protected by law, built through self-reliant trade, and ultimately relied on Allah's provision rather than hoarding or renouncing it.
Global
Personal Finance
Wealth & Economics
Dollar and Petrodollar
- Wealth & EconomicsDollar and PetrodollarClaim: Dollar Dominance Cracking as Allies Pivot to YuanA video explainer argues the dollar-based global financial system is cracking under trust and freedom failures, pointing to yuan-priced trade deals and the 2022 Russian reserve freeze, while comparing today to the 1931 fall of the pound.
- Wealth & EconomicsDollar and PetrodollarClaim: The Dollar as America's Imperial WeaponA video lays out a Marxist theory that the US dollar, enforced through Fed swap lines, oil pricing and military spending, functions as the core machinery of American imperial power — at the cost of US industry — and warns the world is sliding back toward 1914-style great-power contestation.
- Dollar and PetrodollarThe PetroDollarA Middle East Eye video traces the petrodollar to a 1974 US-Saudi deal and argues the system was already loosening before Iran's seizure of the Strait of Hormuz, as Gulf oil profits shrink next to Asia's manufacturing surpluses and US debt and unpredictability test trust in the dollar.
Debt and Currency Crises
- Wealth & EconomicsDebt and Currency CrisesClaim: Inflation Is a Hidden Policy ChoiceA video essay argues inflation originally meant growth in the money supply, not rising prices, and that the definition was changed to deflect blame from money printing onto other causes.
- Wealth & EconomicsDebt and Currency CrisesTurkey's Currency Crisis Prices Out Its Own PeopleTurkey's currency collapse and inflation have pushed Istanbul's sightseeing and living costs to match or exceed major European capitals, even as Ankara works to attract global wealth to replace departing budget tourists.
- Wealth & EconomicsDebt and Currency CrisesClaim: Ottoman Debt Trap Cost the Empire Its SovereigntyA video argues the Ottoman Empire went from total financial self-sufficiency to foreign-controlled bankruptcy, losing sovereignty decades before its formal end, and draws a parallel to modern powers trading industrial capacity for financial dominance.
- Wealth & EconomicsDebt and Currency CrisesDebt Trap: Ottoman Fall Mapped Onto US, China, RussiaA video traces the Ottoman Empire's collapse to a 19th-century debt trap that stripped it of economic sovereignty, then maps the same logic onto the US, China and Russia today.
- Wealth & EconomicsDebt and Currency CrisesMoral EconomyCoherence Academy videos lay out an Islamic-economics critique of interest-based debt, link it to theories of US "petrogas dollar" dominance and a stalled de-dollarization push, explain bond market mechanics, and tie South Africa's stagnation to state capture.
- Debt and Currency CrisesIMF and Global PillagingMaterial argues that debt, war, banking and constitutional design all move wealth from ordinary people to elites — through IMF loan conditions, apartheid-era Western backing, "engineered" crises, and legally designed inequality — while a commons framework and grassroots assemblies are offered as alternatives.
