A statement of faith in the economy of 1999, as studied by the Christian Council for
Monetary Justice, that I made to the Industrial Mission Association (IMA)
– HOW IN YOUR VIEW SHOULD IT BE REVISED THESE 26 YEARS ON?
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‘’The agenda of monetary reform is set out in this broken verse; each stanza being backed by research, scholarship and able activists,’’  Peter Challen.

“LET THE WISDOM OF ANCIENT DAYS DETERMINE MONEY MAKING.”

JUSTICE would be, O, so simple:
Though it may take eight creative ‘days’
If citizens would vote for transformation,
step by step, of the monetary system:
that steeps us all in exponential debt.

First. REDEEM
credit by renewing the requirement
of investment collateral.
For all that’s lent, that is,
Return to 100% money.

Second. CREATE
a public service banking system,
the crown in action for its people,
issuing money free of debt into the economy,
stemming compounding interest’s strangulation of us all.

Third. INVEST
In everyone with Citizens Basic Income,
the first call on the nation’s wealth
being the dignity of a freely contributing
society, gifted not categorised, into space to work,
every skill engaged in just wealth creation.

Fourth. MULTIPLY
Currencies that generate economic activities,
social trading of human skill and spirit,
at many levels, building in the process,
local trust, partnership and community.

Fifth. EXPLORE
The ancient wisdom of both secular 
And religious traditions almost everywhere,
that ”money making money, is prostitution”
of Aristotle’s great economic notion,
“Money is the means of exchange,
not the mother of interest: usury must end.”

Sixth. REVISIT
fiscal policies and apply
eco-, uni- and land value taxes too,
keys to the sustainability of
a vast population thriving on the Earth,
and the intrinsic value
of nature’s sustained creativity itself.

Seventh. IN THE INTERIM
apply a Tobin tax on the awesome immorality
of currency speculation
which flourishes in the overweening vanity
of those who prosper
while even In a new millennial era,
Millions die in want and desperate indignity,
all across the face of an abundant planet,
plentiful in a true economy.

Eighth. REST
And looking on her just socio-politico-economy of friendship
say, Yes, that, that is good.
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Your updating would be gratefully acknowledged.
Easter Greetings, as we all rise in our humble small but vital ways.
Peter