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Ellen Brown

President of Public Banking Institute
Contributor's Links: Web of Debt Public Bank Solution Public Banking Institute
Ellen Brown is an attorney, president of the Public Banking Institute, and author of twelve books including the best-selling Web of Debt. In The Public Bank Solution, her latest book, she explores successful public banking models historically and globally. Her websites are more
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Achieving Self-Funding Local Sovereignty As Global Food Systems Collapse
Monday, July 11, 2022 4:56 AM EDT
The solution to the current food crisis is small and local, including growing food locally. But how to fund local food co-ops without pricey loans from big banks?
In this article: UUP, BITCOMP
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How America Went From Mom-And-Pop Capitalism To Techno-Feudalism
Thursday, May 20, 2021 10:58 AM EDT
The crisis of 2020 has created the greatest wealth gap in history. The middle class, capitalism, and democracy are all under threat. What went wrong and what can be done?
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Will 2021 Be Public Banking’s Watershed Moment?
Thursday, March 4, 2021 10:03 AM EDT
Just over two months into the new year, 2021 has already seen a flurry of public banking activity. 
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The Gamers’ Uprising Against Wall Street Has Deep Populist Roots
Thursday, February 11, 2021 10:55 AM EDT
A short squeeze frenzy driven by a new generation of gamers captured financial headlines in recent weeks, centered on a struggling strip mall video game store called GameStop.
In this article: GME
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Tackling The Infrastructure And Unemployment Crises: The “American System” Solution
Sunday, December 20, 2020 6:05 AM EDT
A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the “American System” of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help solve not one but two of the country’s biggest problems.
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Meet BlackRock, The New Great Vampire Squid
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 6:36 AM EDT
BlackRock is a global financial giant with customers in 100 countries and its tentacles in major asset classes all over the world; and it now manages the spigots to trillions of bailout dollars from the Federal Reserve.
In this article: BLK
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When Profits And Politics Drive Science: Rushing A Vaccine To Market For A Vanishing Virus
Thursday, June 4, 2020 11:00 AM EDT
More than 100 companies are competing to be first in the race to get a COVID-19 vaccine to market. It’s a race against time, not because the death rate is climbing but because it is falling.
In this article: AZN, BLK, MRNA
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Another Bank Bailout Under Cover Of A Virus
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 4:27 AM EDT
Insolvent Wall Street banks have been quietly bailed out again. Banks made risk-free by the government should be public utilities.
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Crushing The States, Saving The Banks: The Fed’s Generous New Rules
Sunday, May 3, 2020 12:00 PM EDT
Only $150 billion of its nearly $3 trillion coronavirus relief package – a mere 5% – has been allocated to the 50 states, and they are not allowed to use it where they need it most, to plug the holes in their budgets caused by the mandatory shutdown.
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A Universal Basic Income Is Essential And Will Work
Monday, April 20, 2020 2:32 AM EDT
Guy Standing, of the University of London, told CNBC that there was no prospect of a global economic revival without a universal basic income. “It’s almost a no-brainer...We are going to have some sort of basic income system sooner or later”
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Was The Fed Just Nationalized?
Friday, April 3, 2020 2:13 PM EDT
Did Congress just nationalize the Fed? No. But the door to that result has been cracked open.
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Socialism At Its Finest After Fed’s Bazooka Fails
Sunday, March 22, 2020 8:01 AM EDT
In what is being called the worst financial crisis since 1929, the US stock market has lost a third of its value in the space of a month, wiping out all of its gains of the last three years.
In this article: GM
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The Fed’s Baffling Response To The Coronavirus Explained
Thursday, March 12, 2020 6:46 AM EDT
In the face of a recession caused by massive supply-chain disruption, the US central bank has shown itself to be impotent.
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Mexico’s President AMLO Shows How It’s Done
Monday, February 10, 2020 7:55 AM EDT
While U.S. advocates and local politicians struggle to get their first public banks chartered, Mexico’s new president has begun construction on 2,700 branches of a government-owned bank to be completed in 2021.
In this article: EWW
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The Fed Protects Gamblers At The Expense Of The Economy
Saturday, January 11, 2020 12:00 PM EDT
Although the repo market is little known to most people, it is a $1-trillion-a-day credit machine, in which not just banks but hedge funds and other “shadow banks” borrow to finance their trades.
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Is The Run On The Dollar Due To Panic Or Greed?
Friday, November 8, 2019 7:27 AM EDT
What’s going on in the repo market? Rates on repurchase agreements (“repo”) should be around 2%, in line with the fed funds rate. But they shot up to over 5% on September 16 and got as high as 10% on September 17.
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