Jan 10th 2008, 17:49 system announcement
by IntLibber Brautigan

Brautigan Guests on Metanomics

ACE Chair IntLibber Brautigan was a guest on the SLCN.tv program Metanomics, hosted by Beyers Sellers (Professor Robert Bloomfield of Cornell U) today in a special episode covering the new LL Banking Rule.

Other guests included Jillian Barth (Jillian Sayuri Falconi) of Saxo Bank, who hosted the show in the Saxo Bank sim, Travis Ristow of BCX Bank, Benjamin Djuranske of the SL Bar Association, and David Talbot of Technology Review, who wrote a rather sensationalistic story about the victims of the collapse of Ginko Financial, and is credited/blamed for the current LL policy.

Talbot started off by displaying a surprising lack of knowledge about Ginko in general. Discussion moved on to Benjamin Djuranske making a number of inflammatory, hyperbolic and factually unsupported statements which were quickly doused with facts from Travis Ristow and IntLibber. Spectators called the blow-by-blow on the Metanomics group backchat.

It was noted that its unreasonable for LL to insist on bank charters for paying interest on what LL insists is not really money, but a licensed product.

IntLibber went on to talk about how any standard of "sustainable interest" has to be founded in the context of the local SL economy, which grew at 1000% last year.

You can watch the show at SLCN