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Research references
Last updated: 2026-07-30
Primary source and framing credit. This research dossier is built from Lyn Alden, Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better (Timestamp Press / independent, 2023). Chapter structure, the ledger/speed-gap diagnosis, historical through-line, and many concrete cases (Lebanon, Nigeria, Egypt, Bretton Woods/petrodollar framing, Cantillon and debt-cycle exposition, open-vs-control close) follow that book. External links below are corroboration, updates through 2026, and primary documents — not a substitute for the book’s full argument.
Primary book
- Lyn Alden, Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better (2023) — lynalden.com · author site / book page
Author essays (mechanisms)
Monetary history and mechanism
- Federal Reserve History — Nixon ends gold convertibility (Aug 1971)
- U.S. State Department — Nixon and the end of Bretton Woods
- Transatlantic telegraph cable (Wikipedia)
- Bitcoin whitepaper (PDF)
- W. Stanley Jevons, Money and the Mechanism of Exchange (1875)
- Nick Szabo, Shelling Out: The Origins of Money
Debt, reserves, money stock
- IMF Global Debt Monitor 2025 (PDF)
- UNCTAD — A World of Debt 2025
- IMF COFER — currency composition of reserves
- Fed FEDS Note — International role of the U.S. dollar (2025)
- Federal Reserve H.6 Money Stock Measures
- FRED — Monetary Base (BOGMBASE)
- CRS IF12147 — Federal Reserve balance sheet
Banking stress and freezes
- Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (Wikipedia)
- Reuters — Lebanese woman who forced release of family savings (2022)
- Al Jazeera — Sali Hafiz bank heist coverage