About the project

In Bancorruptcy, Scott Bartle — a project manager and luxury yacht captain, not an economist — turns a project-management eye on the US monetary system and reaches a startling conclusion: the National Debt is not permanent, immutable, or even legitimate. Tracing a single word in Article I of the Constitution — Value — through Supreme Court decisions, Federal Reserve publications, congressional records, and the writings of Jefferson, Madison, Jackson and Hamilton, Bartle shows that two competing monetary value systems coexist inside American law: one in which value is a debt owed to bankers, and one in which value is created by the people, for the people. Bancorruptcy is a citizen's field guide for telling the two apart — and for holding those in office to account.