David Haggith

• The Great Recession Blog (http://thegreatrecession.info/blog/)

• About David Haggith, a.k.a. Knave Dave (http://thegreatrecession.info/blog/about-the-great-recession-blog-author-david-haggith/)

Items of particular note

• "Get Ready for a World Currency", The Economist (1988) [The Phoenix rises from the ashes.]

• Jim Leaviss, "How to end boom and bust: make cash illegal", The Telegraph (13 May 2015) [Worth reading for the striking resemblance to Technocracy.]

Items mentioned in / relevant to the conversation

• David Haggith, "Cashless Society War Intensifies During Global Epocalypse", The Great Receesion Blog (21 January 2016)

• David Haggith, "What in the World is Going on with Banks this Week? Emergency meetings, banker summits, crashing European banks, and the worst bank reports since the Great Recession", The Great Receesion Blog (12 April 2016)

• Akin Oyedele, "Larry Summers slams The Wall Street Journal's 'illogical' take on his call to kill the $100 bill", Business Insider UK (25 February 2016)

• Alanna Petroff, "Death of the 500 euro bill getting closer", CNN Money (15 February 2016)

• Michael Krieger, "The Financial Times Demands End Of Cash, Calls It A "Barbarous Relic", Liberty Blitzkrieg (27 August 2015)

• "This Is The Real Reason For The War On Cash", Zero Hedge (18 February 2016)

• Nick Giambruno, "The World’s First Cashless Society Is Here - A Totalitarian’s Dream Come True", International Man

• "Bring on the Cashless Future", Bloomberg View (31 January 2016)

• James Corbett et al, "The War on Cash : A Country by Country Guide", Open Source Investigation, The Corbett Report (27 January 2016)

Update

• A very helpful graphic timeline of the 2008 financial crisis at Moneymunk.com (https://www.moneymunk.com/what-happened-in-2008/)

Acknowledgements

Music: Chillout Me, kindly provided by Antony Raijekov, from his Jazz U compilation (CC BY-NC 2.5)