Session 4 of 7
Economy, Budgets & Debt
Where public money actually comes from, where it actually goes, and why debt without consent is a claim on your future. Includes the structural role of honest trade and the economy that grows from it.
Readings for this session
Pulled live from the Articles library — this list grows as new articles are published.
- Follow the Money, Literally4 min
- When a Debt Becomes a Vote You Never Cast5 min
- Honesty Is Not a Virtue in Business. It's a Structure.4 min
- Wealth Is Not the Same Thing as Money4 min
- Owning the Asset Before You Owe the Liability5 min
- What a Community Owns Together4 min
- A Nation's Balance Sheet Works the Same Way5 min
- Who Actually Owns the Crop You Grow5 min
- Reading Your Own Payslip Like a Sovereign4 min
- Inflation Is a Tax No One Ever Voted For4 min
Opening
Ask: name one local project — school, road, clinic — whose funding you cannot trace.
Discussion
- Who in this room has ever attended a public participation forum on a budget?
- What would help ordinary people follow public money more easily?
- What is one number about your county's budget you would like to know?
Closing commitment
Pick one local project. Try to trace its funding before the next session.