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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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How To Pay For It All: An Option The Candidates Missed
Wednesday, July 10, 2019 10:31 AM EDT
Critics have long called China’s economy a Ponzi scheme, doomed to collapse in the end; and for 40 years China has continued to prove the critics wrong.
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Libra: Facebook’s Audacious Bid For Global Monetary Control
Thursday, June 27, 2019 7:06 PM EDT
A currency intended for trade on a national—let alone international—scale needs to be not only centralized but democratized, responding to the will of the people and their elected leaders.
In this article: LIBRA Also: META, V, MA
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The American Dream Is Alive And Well - In China
Sunday, June 16, 2019 11:11 PM EDT
Home ownership has been called “the quintessential American dream.” Yet today less than 65% of American homes are owner occupied, and more than 50% of the equity in those homes is owned by the banks. In China, 90% can afford homes.
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The Bankers’ "Power Revolution": How The Government Got Shackled By Debt
Friday, May 31, 2019 10:53 AM EDT
The U.S. federal debt has more than doubled since the 2008 financial crisis, shooting up from $9.4 trillion in mid-2008 to over $22 trillion in April 2019. The debt is never paid off.
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The Public Banking Revolution Is Upon Us
Friday, April 19, 2019 5:34 AM EDT
As public banking gains momentum across the country, policymakers in California and Washington state are vying to form the nation’s second state-owned bank, following in the footsteps of the highly successful Bank of North Dakota, founded in 1919.
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Monetary Policy Takes Center Stage: MMT, QE Or Public Banks?
Thursday, March 21, 2019 11:03 AM EDT
A network of public banks including a central bank operated as a public utility could similarly fund a US Green New Deal – without raising taxes, driving up the federal debt, or inflating prices.
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QE Forever: The Fed’s Dramatic About-Face
Friday, February 22, 2019 5:07 AM EDT
“Quantitative easing” was supposed to be an emergency measure.
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The Venezuela Myth Keeping Us From Transforming Our Economy
Monday, February 11, 2019 10:44 AM EDT
Venezuela’s problems are not the result of the government issuing money and using it to hire people to build infrastructure, provide essential services and expand economic development.
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Why Germany Leads In Renewables: It Has Its Own Green Bank
Monday, January 28, 2019 10:59 AM EDT
The most profitable and efficient way for national and local governments to finance public infrastructure and development is with their own banks, as the impressive track records of KfW and other national development banks have shown.
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This Radical Plan To Fund The ‘Green New Deal’ Just Might Work
Tuesday, December 18, 2018 1:03 AM EDT
Rather than stepping up its bond-buying, the Federal Reserve is now bent on “quantitative tightening,” raising interest rates and reducing the money supply by selling its bonds into the market in anticipation of “full employment” driving up prices.
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Trump’s War On The Fed
Monday, November 5, 2018 8:06 AM EDT
President Trump has stepped up his criticism of the Federal Reserve, saying of its aggressive interest rate hikes that it has “gone crazy.” The same charge has been leveled against Trump.
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Breaking With Wall Street: L.A. Puts It To The Voters
Sunday, October 7, 2018 6:03 AM EDT
The banks – hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created – are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. Wall Street owns the country.
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Central Banks Have Gone Rogue, Putting Us All At Risk
Monday, September 17, 2018 1:15 PM EDT
Central bankers are now aggressively playing the stock market.
In this article: CVX, XOM, MSFT, AMZN, GM, AAPL, META
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Money System: For Wonks And Quants
Thursday, August 23, 2018 10:39 PM EDT
A discussion about our monetary system and how things might reasonably change and upend our debt-based money system.
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Looking Under The Hood, We Find...
Thursday, August 9, 2018 1:30 PM EDT
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.
In this podcast: UUP
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Backwards And Forwards
Saturday, July 7, 2018 9:35 AM EDT
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.
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