Hazel Henderson was a futurist. She understood that what is really important in an economic system isn’t measurable in dollars, but rather in the health…
It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown
America’s early financial innovations led a remarkable flowering in world history of expanding economic prospect, at least until the late 20th century. Since then, financial elites…
Another historic milestone in the emergence of public banks around the country has been reached in Philadelphia with an overwhelming vote of the City Council…
Celebrated economist Michael Hudson thinks that the world of academic economics is both deceptive and essentially wrong in its formulations of the role of money…
“The magic of compound interest” – interest on interest on borrowed principal – is a primary way monetary wealth grows, but it is at the…
The Clash of Two Americas Matt Ehret’s new book “The Clash of Two Americas – The Unfinished Symphony” provides an extraordinary tour of the…
For decades, the importance of public sector institutions has been undermined by powerful private corporate interests. How they have done it and how that process…
Across the globe, public banks hold assets of about $50 trillion dollars in widely divergent countries and cultures. While these publicly owned institutions have diverse…
The trillion-dollar philanthropy industry has been accused of continuing a racist, colonialist system of economic and cultural suppression. That notion is in dramatic contrast to…
The OCC That acronym is not well known by many Americans even though it represents one of the most critical functions of our federal monetary…
When costly projects like infrastructure stare down government budgets, taxpayers and politicians understandably get nervous. If federal financial support doesn’t take the lead, states and…
Constructing the Democratic Public Bank As the movement to create publicly owned banks across America picks up speed, new questions arise about how to make…