Mark Young

Mark Young has over 25 years of experience in the housing and community development field. He has worked in the non-profit sector for a community development corporation and for city and state governments as well as being a private business owner of Crossroads Development & Consulting Company, JMK Development, Home Care Realty, Urban Property Group and VoluMod LLC.

As a life-long residence of Indianapolis and graduated from North Central High School he has always had an entrepreneurial and creative spirit. After graduation he attended Ball State University where he earned a B. S in Biology and completed his graduate work in Urban and Regional Planning under a work study scholarship from the Department of Housing and Urban Development where he also minored in Economics.

Mark self-published his first book How To Fix the Future: Using Cooperative Economics in 2012 to introduce laymen to macroeconomics and the subject of monetary reform in a non-academic way. He was also a co-editor of the Spanish-language anthology on monetary reform titled Democratizar El Dinero. He is also a founding member of the Alliance For Just Money (AFJM) and is currently serving as a Core Member of the Internation Movement for Monetary Reform (IMMR ).

Mark’s presentation is titled “International Consequences and Obstacles to Sovereign Monetary Reform.” Its full text can be found above under Conference Materials.