Money has an immense amount of control over our lives, but do we understand how money operates? Neil Oliver, of GB News, recently raised this point, quoting Henry Ford who once remarked: 'It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

Oliver points out: 'The truth of which most people are unaware of is that money is created out of thin air, not backed by anything real…It's conjured out of nowhere and exists now only because the banker says it does. He then says you have to pay him back the loan, plus, interest.

'He's allowed to credit your account with money that did not exist until you asked for it and he then charges interest on that previously non-existent sum. Talk about a fool-proof way to make money!” Bo Polny, in a recent interview on USA Watchdog, made a similar point: 'Everything you think you owe, the bank created out of thin air. That's a fraud.” The world is our home. There is plenty for everyone. Yet the greed of a fraudulent system makes slaves of us all.

Carolyn Stock, Tauranga City.