Going Postal – and Going Local About 25% of Americans don’t have access to basic banking services such as check cashing and money transfers, often…
It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown
It’s not an oxymoron. We need banks for quite a number of our civic, economic and personal lives. Bank’s role is so important to communities…
Infrastructure and the National Debt Why can’t we have nice things? Why can’t we have safe bridges and roads, excellent schools and so much more that…
The very notion that an economy could deserve an emotional response seems to unreasonably mix metaphors; how could economic activities elicit heart-warming affection? Yet economies…
Through regulatory capture, banks and other powerful corporations are able to maximize their profiteering, usually at others’ expense. A particularly egregious example of lending abuse…
A glancing overview of America’s economy discloses significant deprivation and inequality among citizens, corporatized institutions, co-opted politics and diminishing prospects for an increasing number of…
The excitement surrounding the inclusion of public banking in political campaigns is now shifting gears into the nitty-gritty process of educating and encouraging legislators and…
We’ve been told that marketplace productivity is irrefutable evidence of economic efficiency and a precursor to consumer happiness. But that meme is a self-serving axiom designed…
Paying for Catastrophe Whether a flood, fire, hurricanes or a failed financial system, the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury have the means to address…
Crypto-Chango and Truth in Accounting Ellen Brown reflects on the true nature of money at the Nexus Conference in Aspen, bringing to a renown body of monetary…
Crypto currencies will likely change the future of banking in transformative ways, and there’s even a chance that it could help democratize citizen’s control…
What’s your problem? Unfunded pension funds? Massive state debt? Creeping privatization? Codification of criminal banking? Today’s program addresses these chronic problems with a baseline look…