Can debt actually be a good thing? The American System of economy, advanced by thinkers such as Hamilton, Carey, List, Lincoln, and Lyndon LaRouche, gives money a new—and valid—meaning as credit, as opposed the oligarchy's use of money as a tool to stop economic growth. At the core of the money issue is your view of mankind: are we just another animal, or something completely different? Identifying and using that difference between mankind and the animals in your economy is the secret to debt being a blessing, rather than a trap.