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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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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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A Public Bank For Los Angeles? City Council Puts It To The Voters
Thursday, July 5, 2018 12:05 AM EDT
California legislators exploring the public bank option may be breaking not just from Wall Street but from the Federal Reserve.
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Blackstone, BlackRock Or A Public Bank? Putting California’s Funds To Work
Monday, May 28, 2018 2:18 PM EDT
California has over $700 billion parked around the state. These funds, or some of them, could be transferred to an infrastructure bank that generated credit for the state, while the funds remained safely on deposit in the bank.
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Fox In The Hen House: Why Interest Rates Are Rising
Monday, April 23, 2018 5:51 AM EDT
The Fed is aggressively raising interest rates, although inflation is contained, private debt is already at 150% of GDP, and rising variable rates could push borrowers into insolvency. So what is driving the Fed’s push to “tighten”?
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Funding Infrastructure: Why China Is Running Circles Around America
Thursday, March 1, 2018 12:00 PM EDT
“One Belt, One Road,” China’s $1 trillion infrastructure initiative, is a massive undertaking of highways, pipelines, transmission lines, ports, power stations, fiber optics, and railroads connecting China to Central Asia, Europe, and Africa.
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How Uncle Sam Launders Marijuana Money
Friday, January 26, 2018 4:21 AM EDT
The US government is profiting handsomely by accepting marijuana cash in the payment of taxes while imposing huge penalties on banks for accepting it as deposits.
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Student Debt Slavery II: Time To Level The Playing Field
Friday, January 5, 2018 10:59 AM EDT
The lending business is heavily stacked against student borrowers. Bigger players can borrow for almost nothing, and if their investments don’t work out, they can put their corporate shells through bankruptcy and walk away. Not so with students.
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Student Debt Slavery: Bankrolling Financiers On The Backs Of The Young
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 2:46 PM EDT
Higher education has been financialized, transformed from a public service into a lucrative cash cow for private investors.
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Regulation Is Killing Community Banks – Public Banks Can Revive Them
Monday, October 30, 2017 4:12 PM EDT
Crushing regulations are driving small banks to sell out to the megabanks, a consolidation process that appears to be intentional. Publicly-owned banks can help avoid that trend and keep credit flowing in local economies.
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How To Wipe Out Puerto Rico’s Debt Without Hurting Bondholders
Thursday, October 12, 2017 9:42 PM EDT
When central banks want to save bankrupt institutions without cost to the government or the people, they obviously know how to do it.
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Sovereign Debt Jubilee, Japanese-Style
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 1:09 PM EDT
Japan has found a way to write off nearly half its national debt without creating inflation. We could do that too.
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Dear Mr. President, Be Careful What You Wish For: Higher Interest Rates Will Kill The Recovery
Monday, June 12, 2017 12:15 PM EDT
Higher interest rates will triple the interest on the federal debt to $830 billion annually by 2026, will hurt workers and young voters, and could bankrupt over 20% of US corporations, according to the IMF.
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If China Can Fund Infrastructure With Its Own Credit, So Can We
Thursday, May 18, 2017 5:45 AM EDT
While American politicians debate endlessly over how to finance the needed fixes and which ones to implement, the Chinese have managed to fund massive infrastructure projects all across their country.
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What A State-Owned Bank Can Do For New Jersey
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 1:44 PM EDT
Like most states today, New Jersey suffers from serious budget problems, limiting its ability to make needed improvements. By funding infrastructure through its own bank, the state can cut infrastructure costs roughly in half.
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How To Cut Infrastructure Costs In Half
Thursday, January 26, 2017 6:07 AM EDT
Americans could save $1 trillion over 10 years by financing infrastructure through publicly-owned banks like the one that has long been operating in North Dakota.
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The Italian Banking Crisis: No Free Lunch – Or Is There?
Wednesday, December 21, 2016 5:04 PM EDT
The biggest banks are always rescued, no matter how negligent or corrupt, because, in our existing system, banks create the money we use in trade.
In this article: EWI, EZU, BMDPF
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