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Ellen Brown is an attorney, founder 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 http://EllenBrown.com, http://PublicBankSolution.com, and http://PublicBankingInstitute.org.
SHARE Saturday, June 14, 2008 What's the difference between Lehman Bros and Bear Stearns? Lehman's CEO is on board of NY Fed
Bear Stearns, far from being "rescued" by JPMorgan, was eaten alive. But Lehman Brothers, the next investment bank expected to fall, probably WILL be rescued by the Fed. What's the difference? The CEO of Lehman Brothers -- like that of JPMorgan and unlike that of Bear Stearns -- sits on the Board of the NY Fed . . . .
SHARE Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Speculating in Hunger: Are Investors Contributing to the Global Food Crisis?
Investment newsletters are now featuring headlines like "How You Can Profit from the Global Food Crisis." The recommended investments will no doubt do very well in the global food crisis; but before you put your money down, you may want to explore whether you will be helping to alleviate the problem or actually contributing to it.
(12 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 10, 2008 Credit Default Swaps: Derivative Disaster Du Jour
When the smartest guys in the room designed their credit default swaps, they forgot to ask one thing – what if the parties on the other side of the bet don't have the money to pay up? . . .
(10 comments) SHARE Monday, March 31, 2008 APRIL FOOLS: THE FOX TO GUARD THE BANKING HENHOUSE
The Federal Reserve, which has been credited with creating the current housing bubble and bust just as it created the credit bubble of the Roaring Twenties and the bust of 1929, is now to be given vast new powers to oversee regulation of the banking industry and promote "financial market stability." At least, that is the gist of a Treasury Department proposal to be presented to Congress on Monday, March 30, 2008 . . . .
(11 comments) SHARE Monday, March 24, 2008 Another Way Around the Credit Crisis: Minnesota Bill Would Authorize State Banks to "Monetize" Productivity
While the Federal Reserve is lowering the interest rates charged to banks, the interest municipal governments must pay on bonds is skyrocketing, seriously impairing their ability to do public works including repairing bridges and roads. A bill scheduled to be heard before the Minnesota Senate Transportation Committee on March 25, 2008, could represent a major innovation in the way local government projects are funded.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, January 11, 2008 Patrol Boats in the Straits of Hormuz: Another Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
Despite a recent National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) finding that Iran is not engaged in a nuclear weapons program, the push for war continues. The question is, why? The Project for a New American Century provides some clues . . .
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 11, 2007 Letter To The United Nations: How To Cut Sustainable Energy Costs In Half
Development loans have become debt traps for Third World countries, as interest compounds annually on money created by banks with accounting entries. If governments or the United Nations would take over that function, advancing credit created with accounting entries themselves, the crippling expense of interest could be eliminated. Interest-free loans could help ease climate change and other global crises.
(10 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 10, 2007 Behind the Drums of War with Iran: Nuclear Weapons or Compound Interest?
Why the relentless push for war with Iran? The nuclear weapons explanation is suspect. The most important impetus for war may not be oil or the bomb but that Iran has managed to escape the heel of an international clique of private bankers. We may be involved in a war of banking schemes, with Iran's innovative interest-free banking model pitted against the compound interest trap that has captured most of the world in debt.
SHARE Monday, September 24, 2007 Bank Run or Stealth Bail-Out? The Global Credit Crisis Comes to Main Street
Our debt-based monetary system is basically a Ponzi scheme, and it has reached its mathematical limits. The choices are bank runs, as we just saw in England, or stealth hyperinflation to keep the bubble afloat. But there's a third option: returning the monetary scheme to something closer to the vision of our forefathers.
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 6, 2007 Market Meltdown: The End of a 300 Year Ponzi Scheme
The market is collapsing because we have come to the end of a 300 year Ponzi scheme, dating back to the privatization of money creation in the seventeenth century. The only way out of this fix is the way we got into it: by retrieving the power to create money from a cartel of private bankers and returning it to the people themselves.