Nancy Spannaus discusses the significance of Hamilton’s economic vision and principles, and how those principles have been eroded today.

Would you trade considerable inherited wealth to address the expansive systemic inequities generated by our financial system? 

Ellen’s conversation with Matt Ehret takes you on an economic history tour of the past 200 years.

Ellen talks with Paul Hellyer at length about what he’s seen and who he sees is really in charge of this planet and how they shape our democratic future.

It’s a grim irony that only the moneyed can afford the protections of bankruptcy.

Michael Hudson describes why the current global economic demise is the fruit of consummate greed, crony politics, and rapacious finance – and what we must do if we are to ever get off this road.

The bank-owned Fed has been taking unprecedented actions of late propping up capital markets, corporations and banks in response to the economic impact of the Covid pandemic and the covert collapse of the financial system dating back to mid-2019.

After 100+ years, it’s high time we give serious thought to how well our central bank is meeting its objectives of stabilizing the banking system, ensuring employment levels, and keeping a lid on inflation.

“Divide and Conquer” is a proven method for creating chaos that can diffuse and distract opponents.

The current face-offs between the United States and China over trade resurrect an issue that has wide-ranging ramifications in both countries.

The remarkable financial successes of the American economy have been mostly bestowed on a small percentage of our populace while a growing proportion of citizens face increasing financial hardships.

A discussion about our monetary system and how things might reasonably change and upend our debt-based money system.

Smoke and mirrors? The world of finance is built on mutual agreements quantified by digitized records representing the full faith and credit of someone, whether an individual or a country. Not gold, not silver, not paper.

When we look back at the history of banking in America, we can see the formative patterns that have shaped that industry over the past couple hundred years.

The lock-down on control of our money by private banks is facing an increased challenge in a variety of forms, from technology that creates new methods of exchange, to the public uprising for creation of new public banks.

Public acceptance of unacceptable conditions produced by a privately-controlled money world has institutionalized struggle and sacrifice through unnecessary monetary scarcity.