22nd Annual AMI Monetary Reform Conference, 2026

AMI Conference 2026:

Preparing for the Next Collapse

Monetary and Financial Reforms Are Crucial

(Schedule / Conference Reading Guide, Materials, and Select Bibliography / Endorsing Organizations / Conference Speakers)

 

Dear friends

This year’s 22nd American Monetary Institute Conference builds on last year’s conference. For example, Professor Yamaguchi, the world’s foremost systems dynamics modeler of monetary systems, continues to elaborate on his work as expressed in his book Public Money. He will answer questions posed in advance about his past work and his work as expressed in his book, Public Money. Professor Yamaguchi’s work in Japan serves as an important model for monetary thinkers elsewhere.

Richard Robbins, Steve Keen, Michael Hudson, Joseph Huber, and Oliver Heydorn will also build upon their previous works, including AMI presentations. Their work can inform us about how the present system is working and suggest new directions.

To create strategies for introducing new people and organizations to monetary reform as well as sharing ideas to build a better monetary system for our own countries, we have: Howard Switzer, Robert Ndubi, Loke Hagberg, Richard Cook, the International Movement for Monetary Reform’s CORE leadership team, and the Alliance For Just Money’s Research and Policy Committee members, all sharing their work.

The dates and times were:

• Friday        September 25    11:50 am – 10:00 pm CDT
• Saturday   September 26     8:00 am – 5:00 pm CDT
• Sunday      September 27     8:00 am – 4:30 pm CDT

All times Chicago, Central Daylight Time (CDT / UTC -5) (Time Zone Info)

 

Content of the Conference

The theme of the 2026 AMI Conference is Preparing for the Next Collapse / Monetary and Financial Reforms Are Crucial.

 

The Registration Donation

Whether you are a policy expert, activist, student, or simply a concerned citizen, this is your chance to understand the system, challenge the status quo, and help chart a path toward an economy that truly serves people and planet. We kindly encourage a donation of $35 at the time of registration, which will contribute to supporting the financing of the conference. Please visit the donation page here.

 

Thanks and warmest regards,

The 2026 AMI Conference Team

 

Conference Schedule

Please be advised that schedule modifications may be necessary

All times Chicago, Central Daylight Time (CDT / UTC -5) (Time Zone Info)

 

Friday, September 25 – Day 1
Time	Title or Topic	Friday Speakers
11:50 am	Welcome to the Conference	Steven Walsh
12 pm	Dedollarization	Michael Hudson
1:30 pm	Break – 5 mins.
1:35 pm	On the Origins of the NEED Act	Richard Cook
3:10 pm	Dinner – Long (2 hrs. 40 mins.)
5:50 pm	Introduction for Evening Session
6:00 pm	Questions on Public Money	Kaoru Yamaguchi
7:30 pm	Break – 10 mins.
7:40 pm	Money and Payments	AFJM Research & Policy Committee
9:15 pm	Open session
10:00 pm	Session over

 

Saturday, September 26 – Day 2
Time	Title or Topic	Saturday Speakers
6:30 am	Questions on Public Money (Replay for other side of planet)	Kaoru Yamaguchi
8:00 am	Break – 5 mins.
8:05 am	Song	Howard Switzer
8:10 am	Monetary Reforms and Household Financial Health in Kenya	Robert Ndubi
8:55 am	Break – 5 mins.
9:00 am	CBDC: The Case for the Digital Euro	Joseph Huber
10:20 am	Break – 10 mins.
10:30 am	How Governments Turn Commercial Bank Debt into Money	Sam Hummel / Martijn Jeroen van der Linden
12:00 pm	Lunch – One hour
1:00 pm	Must It Grow? Four Answers to One Question, and What They Have in Common	Richard Robbins
2:40 pm	Break – 5 mins.
2:45 pm	C.H. Douglas’ Proposal of the “Electoral Campaign, and its Application in the Province of Québec	Oliver Heydorn
4:20 pm	Happy Hour / Song / Open Session
5:15 pm	Session Over

 

Sunday, September 27 – Day 3
Time	Title or Topic	Sunday Speakers
6:30 am	Dedollarization	Michael Hudson
8:00 am	Welcome & song	Steven Walsh
8:10 am	IMMR at 10 Years… Working to Support Monetary Reform for All Nations	IMMR Core Team
9:15 am	Break – 5 mins.
9:20 am	Critical Insights of an IMMR Economist	Loke Hagberg
10:10 am	Break – 10 mins.
10:20 am	How a public money system will be needed when catastrophic climate damages occur	Steve Keen
11:50 am	Lunch – 55 Minutes
12:45 pm	Jubilee 2026: A Practical Path to Sovereign Money	Brian Winters
1:45 pm	Break – 5 mins.
1:50 pm	Visit from the Kuciniches	Elizabeth and Dennis Kucinich
2:25 pm	Restorative Justice: Healing the Body Politic from the Ground Up	Howard Switzer
3:30 pm	Happy Hour / Song / Open Session
4:30 pm	Conference Over

 

Conference Reading Guide (PDF)

 

Conference materials shared by presenters:

AFJM’s Research and Policy Committee. Money and Payments. Reference Materials

Richard Cook. The Origins of the Need Act of 2011. Full text of paper.

Brian Winters. Populist Act Title VI. Full text of bill.

Howard Switzer. Restorative Justice. PDF of presentation.

Mellor, Mary. 2026. “Sustaining the Future by Democratising Money”. Personal website. 21 Jul 2026.

Barimo Robert Ndubi. Monetary Reforms and Households Financial Health in Kenya. PDF of presentation.

DiMare, Richard. Greenback Restoration Act. Full text of bill.

Loke Hagberg. Critical Insights of an IMMR Economist. PPT of presentation

Previous publications by this years’ presenters (PDF):

 

Cook, Richard C. 2007a. “An Emergency Program of Monetary Reform for the United States”. Global Research, 26 April 2007.

—–. 2007b. “Monetary Reform and How a National Monetary System Should Work”. Global Research, 11 May 2007.

—–. 2007c. “Credit as a Public Utility: The Key to Monetary Reform“. Global Research, 26 May 2007.

—–. 2009a. “It’s Time for a New Monetary System”. Global Research, 23 Mar 2009.

—–. 2009b. “Democratizing the US Monetary System: Urgency of the American Monetary Act”. Global Research, 6 May 2009.

—–. 2009. We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform. Aurora, CO: Tendril Press. (Amazon) [Review by Jamie Walton for AMI, 23 Dec 2010]

—–. 2014. Challenger Revealed: An Insider’s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age. New York, NY: Basic Books. (Amazon)

—–. 2024. Our Country, Then and Now. Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press. (Amazon)

Hagberg, Loke. 2021. Digital Phenomenology: Proving Digital Philosophy and Post-Keynesian Economics. Hamburg, Germany: BoD-Books on Demand.

Heydorn, M. Oliver. 2014. Social Credit Economics. North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. (Amazon)

—–. 2014. The Economics of Social Credit and Catholic Social Teaching. North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. (Amazon)

—–. 2016. Social Credit Philosophy. Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace. (Amazon)

—–. 2017. Lives of Our Own: Social Credit, Catholicism, and a Distributist Social Order.  CreateSpace. (Amazon)

Huber, Joseph. 2014. “Modern Money Theory and New Currency Theory”. Real-World Economics Review, 66 (13 Jan 2014): 38-57.

—–. 2015. “The Chicago Plan (100% Reserve) and Plain Sovereign Money”. Sovereign Money: Website for New Currency Theory and Monetary Reform, Jan 2015.

—–. 2017. Sovereign Money. Beyond Reserve Banking. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (Amazon)

—–. 2019. “Digital currency. Design principles to support a shift from bankmoney to central bank digital currency“. Real-world economics review (2019): 76.

—–. 2020. “Dominant Money“. Part I. Dominant Money and Tidal Changes in the Money Supply; Part II. The rise of sovereign digital currency (CBDC). Sovereign Money: Website for New Currency Theory and Monetary Reform, Jan 2020. Also available at SSRN 3513411

—–. 2023. The Monetary Turning Point: From Bank Money to Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). London: Palgrave Macmillan. (Publisher / Amazon)

—– & Robertson, James. 2000. Creating New Money: A Monetary Reform for the Information Age. London: New Economics Foundation.

Hudson, Michael. 1972–2021. Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (New Edition sub-title: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance). London: Pluto Press. (Amazon)

—–. 2015. Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy. Dresden, Germany: ISLET Press. (Amazon)

—–. 2017. J is for Junk Economics. Dresden, Germany: ISLET Press. (Amazon)

—–. 2018. …and Forgive Them Their Debts. Dresden, Germany: ISLET Press. (Amazon)

—–. 2024. Temples of Enterprise. Dresden, Germany: ISLET Press. (Amazon)

—–, Jonathan Nitzan, Tim Di Muzio and BlairFix. 2025. “Capital as Power in the 21st Century”. Review of Capital as Power, 2/2: 190–228. (Transcript / YouTube)

Hummel, Sam. 2022. “The Bank of England Says Economics Textbooks Teach Falsehoods About Money and Banking“. Sam Thinks out Loud on Substack, 23 March 2022.

—–. 2022. “One Paragraph Summaries of Top Papers for Understanding Bank Money Creation and Its Economic Effects“. Sam Thinks out Loud on Substack, 29 Sept 2022.

—–. 2025. “This is how banks newly create 100% of the money they lend, every time they lend”. Sam Studies Money, 6 Oct 2025.

—–. 2026. “Every year, banks create more money than is spent by the citizens of their nation”. Sam Studies Money, 20 July 2026.

Keen, Steve. 2011. Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor Dethroned? Revised and Expanded Edition. London: Zed Books. (Amazon)

—–. 2017. Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis? Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. (Amazon)

—–. 2021. The New Economics: A Manifesto. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. (Amazon)

—–. 2026. Money and Macroeconomics from First Principles for Elon Musk and Other Engineers. Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN): B0FNJK2F4C (Amazon)

—–. 2026. How Economists Will Destroy Capitalism. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. [Forthcoming 2026]

Robbins, Richard. 2026. “Mean, Stupid Money: How Debt-Money Destroyed the American Dream and How We Can Bring It Back”. Richard Robbins Substack.

—– & Rachel Dowty. 2013. Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism. 7th ed. New York: Pearson/Allyn & Bacon. (Publisher / Amazon)

—– & Tim Di Muzio. 2015. Debt as Power: Theory for a Global Age. Manchester, UK: Manchester UP. (Publisher / Amazon)

—–. & —–. 2015. An Anthropology of Money. New York & London: Routledge. (Publisher / Amazon)

Switzer, Howard. 2017. “Climate Change and Money: Hacking at the Root“. Presentation at the 2017 Democracy Convention, Minneapolis, MS. AMI YouTube Channel, 14 Aug 2017.

—–. 2018. “Weaving a Unifying Narrative: The Money Thread“. Green Horizon, 15/36: 4-6.

—–. 2026. “A Restorative Justice Campaign for Ending the War Economy”. Free the Money News, 27 July 2026.

—–. 2026. “The Psychological Architecture of Usury”. Free the Money News, 3 Aug 2026.

Unitas, Dante J. (Pseud. for Brian Winters). 2024. Looking Backward from the Tricentennial: A Timely Tale of Nonviolent Revolution. Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN): B0CWSGNHQT. (Amazon)

van der Linden, Martijn Jeroen. 2022. Design guidelines for the monetary and financial system in the digital age. Dissertation, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.

—–. 2026. “Restructuring Europe’s Monetary and Financial Architecture in a Fragmenting World Order“. Discussion Paper, April 2026. Available at SSRN 6605601.

—– and Cees van Beers. 2017. “Are private (digital) moneys (disruptive) social innovations? An exploration of different designs“. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 8/3: 302-319.

Yamaguchi, Kaoru. 2011. “Workings of a Public Money System of Open Macroeconomies: Modeling the American Monetary Act Completed”. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, Washington D.C., USA, 2011. The System Dynamics Society.

—–. 2014. “From Debt Money to Public Money System – Modeling A Transition Process Simplified“. Paper presented at the 32nd International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, Delft, Netherlands, July 20 – 24, 2014. Awaji Island, Japan: Japan Futures Research Center.

—– et al. 2017. Money Matters: Some Puzzles, Anomalies and Crises in the Standard Macroeconomic Model. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. (Publisher / Amazon)

—–. & Yokei Yamaguchi. 2024. Public Money for Sustainability and Social Justice. Singapore: Springer Nature. (Publisher / Amazon / Contact AMI)

 

Endorsing Organizations