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President of 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
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?
Hamilton Vs. Wall Street
Nancy Spannaus discusses the significance of Hamilton’s economic vision and principles, and how those principles have been eroded today.
How America Went From Mom-And-Pop Capitalism To Techno-Feudalism
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?
The Wealth Hoarders
Would you trade considerable inherited wealth to address the expansive systemic inequities generated by our financial system? 
Will 2021 Be Public Banking’s Watershed Moment?
Just over two months into the new year, 2021 has already seen a flurry of public banking activity. 
The Gamers’ Uprising Against Wall Street Has Deep Populist Roots
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.
What History Did To Economics
Ellen’s conversation with Matt Ehret takes you on an economic history tour of the past 200 years.
Tackling The Infrastructure And Unemployment Crises: The “American System” Solution
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.
What Do You Know?
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.
Too Broke For Bankruptcy
It’s a grim irony that only the moneyed can afford the protections of bankruptcy.
Killing The Host
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.
Bailing Out Wall Street, Sacrificing Main Street
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.
Meet BlackRock, The New Great Vampire Squid
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.
When Profits And Politics Drive Science: Rushing A Vaccine To Market For A Vanishing Virus
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.
Rethinking The Fed, Payment Systems And Vaccine Speculation …
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.
Another Bank Bailout Under Cover Of A Virus
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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