Solari Builders: Understanding Money and the Economy with Prof. Richard A. Werner

Claire V.
September 1, 2026

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Solari Builders: Understanding Money and the Economy

with Prof. Richard A. Werner

“The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.”

~ Proverbs 22:7
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Solari Builders: Understanding Money and the Economy

September 1, 2026

Professor Richard A. Werner addresses two fundamental questions: What is money? And what problem does money’s existence solve?


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12 Comments

  1. What a great lecture. I feel like I have a much better grasp of concepts that I have been struggling with for years. I sure hope you will post more of Dr. Werner’s lectures!

    1. We are not planning on posting the second. I will discuss with the team. If you have not listened to his other interviews on Solari, strongly recommend you listen to all of them. You will get the content there. Much of this was a repeat of things he has covered with us – its great stuff and still as timely as ever.

  2. I get PeerTube error: Video not found.
    Is the video deleted?
    When trying download, I get;
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    error “Video not found”

      1. Many thanks. Very interesting, Mr.Werner’s knowledge is as wide as it is deep. I suppose it has to be if humanity is going to get out of the debt trap. I hope there are more of you out and about when the chance presents itself to any sensible respectfull livelihood restauration for all.

        I had to force myself to listen to this presentation because money does not interest me much. Never understood until now why one would want to be a banker.

  3. What a great lecture! Thank you for making this available. I learned a lot. Hopefully Part 2 can also be made available.

    It was probably outside of the scope of this lecture (as he dodged the question about it), but I am fascinated by the role of the temples as the first banks, “above” the monarchs. Farrell, of course, goes into all of this in Babylon’s Banksters, but the mention of Japan’s Shinto temples playing the same role caught my attention, as it shows this was not something that was only specific to the West.

  4. Found this very interesting, as a 27 learning about money, I find the history of money such an emotional rollercoaster, at so many points in time people could have made choices that would have put a spot to all of this, but here we are preserving to make the change we wished happened.

    Thanks for posting this

  5. Thank you for yet another wonderful report.
    Richard is a great storyteller and he makes economics enjoyable and edifying without a graph or formula in sight. I particularly enjoy his nuggets on word origins and his historical anecdotes such as why Germany became a leader in the chemical industry.
    I hope the Solari Team will see their was to making Richard’s other lectures available for non-Builders to view and learn from.

  6. Excellent brief. The antidotal stories make the lecture material even better appreciate being able to print out the slides and follow along with them to take notes on them as desired. Very much appreciate Solari making the Builder Series available herein.

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