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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.
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Friday, March 8, 2013
Money for the People: Grillo's Populist Plan for Italy Default on the public debt, nationalization of the banks, and a citizen dividend could actually save the Italian economy.
Friday, March 8, 2013Money for the People: Grillo's Populist Plan for Italy Default on the public debt, nationalization of the banks, and a citizen dividend could actually save the Italian economy.
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Saturday, September 15, 2018
Central Banks Have Gone Rogue, Putting Us All at Risk Central bankers are now aggressively playing the stock market. To say they are buying up the planet may be an exaggeration, but they could. They can create money at will, and they have declared their "independence" from government. They have become rogue players in a game of their own.
Saturday, September 15, 2018Central Banks Have Gone Rogue, Putting Us All at Risk Central bankers are now aggressively playing the stock market. To say they are buying up the planet may be an exaggeration, but they could. They can create money at will, and they have declared their "independence" from government. They have become rogue players in a game of their own.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022
The Coming Global Financial Revolution - Russia Is Following the American Playbook No country has successfully challenged the U.S. dollar's global hegemony-until now. How did this happen and what will it mean?
Wednesday, April 6, 2022The Coming Global Financial Revolution - Russia Is Following the American Playbook No country has successfully challenged the U.S. dollar's global hegemony-until now. How did this happen and what will it mean?
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Monday, December 8, 2008
Sustainable Government: Banking for a "New" New Deal Obama has started his version of Roosevelt's "fireside chats." He has said he plans to create 2.5 million new jobs by 2011 and kick-start the economy by building roads and bridges, modernizing schools, and creating technology and infrastructure for renewable energy. These are excellent ideas, but what will they be funded with - more government debt? There is another alternative . . .
Monday, December 8, 2008Sustainable Government: Banking for a "New" New Deal Obama has started his version of Roosevelt's "fireside chats." He has said he plans to create 2.5 million new jobs by 2011 and kick-start the economy by building roads and bridges, modernizing schools, and creating technology and infrastructure for renewable energy. These are excellent ideas, but what will they be funded with - more government debt? There is another alternative . . .
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Sunday, April 8, 2012
Philadelphia Freedom: Birthplace of the Constitution Takes Center Stage It is well known that Philadelphia was the birthplace of the U.S. Constitution and American democracy. Less well known is that it was also the birthplace of public banking in America.
Sunday, April 8, 2012Philadelphia Freedom: Birthplace of the Constitution Takes Center Stage It is well known that Philadelphia was the birthplace of the U.S. Constitution and American democracy. Less well known is that it was also the birthplace of public banking in America.
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Saturday, January 6, 2018
Student Debt Slavery: Time to Level the Playing Field We need to free our students from the system of debt slavery that has financialized education, turning it from an investment in human capital into a tool for exploiting the young for the benefit of private investors. State-owned banks can make the loan process fair, equitable and affordable; but their creation will be fought by big bank lobbyists. An organized student movement could be an effective counter-lobby.
Saturday, January 6, 2018Student Debt Slavery: Time to Level the Playing Field We need to free our students from the system of debt slavery that has financialized education, turning it from an investment in human capital into a tool for exploiting the young for the benefit of private investors. State-owned banks can make the loan process fair, equitable and affordable; but their creation will be fought by big bank lobbyists. An organized student movement could be an effective counter-lobby.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Trumping the Federal Debt Without Playing the Default Card The government can reduce the debt by buying it -- and ripping it up. The debt can be bought either with debt-free U.S. Notes of the sort issued during the Civil War, or with U.S. dollars issued by the Federal Reserve--a kind of "quantitative easing" for the people.
Wednesday, August 19, 2015Trumping the Federal Debt Without Playing the Default Card The government can reduce the debt by buying it -- and ripping it up. The debt can be bought either with debt-free U.S. Notes of the sort issued during the Civil War, or with U.S. dollars issued by the Federal Reserve--a kind of "quantitative easing" for the people.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Saving the Post Office: The Models of Kiwibank and Japan Post Claiming the Postal Service is bankrupt, critics are pushing legislation that would defuse the postal crisis by breaking the backs of the postal workers' unions and mandating widespread layoffs.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012Saving the Post Office: The Models of Kiwibank and Japan Post Claiming the Postal Service is bankrupt, critics are pushing legislation that would defuse the postal crisis by breaking the backs of the postal workers' unions and mandating widespread layoffs.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2020
The Fed's Baffling Response to the Coronavirus Explained In an attempt to contain the damage, the Federal Reserve on March 3 slashed the fed funds rate from 1.5% to 1.0%, in its first emergency rate move and biggest one-time cut since the 2008 financial crisis. But rather than reassuring investors, the move fueled another panic sell-off.
Tuesday, March 10, 2020The Fed's Baffling Response to the Coronavirus Explained In an attempt to contain the damage, the Federal Reserve on March 3 slashed the fed funds rate from 1.5% to 1.0%, in its first emergency rate move and biggest one-time cut since the 2008 financial crisis. But rather than reassuring investors, the move fueled another panic sell-off.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Japan's "Helicopter Money" Play: Road to Hyperinflation or Cure for Debt Deflation? Fifteen years after embarking on its largely ineffective quantitative easing program, Japan appears poised to try the form recommended by Ben Bernanke in his notorious "helicopter money" speech in 2002. The Japanese test case could finally resolve a longstanding dispute between monetarists and money reformers over the economic effects of government-issued money.
Tuesday, July 26, 2016Japan's "Helicopter Money" Play: Road to Hyperinflation or Cure for Debt Deflation? Fifteen years after embarking on its largely ineffective quantitative easing program, Japan appears poised to try the form recommended by Ben Bernanke in his notorious "helicopter money" speech in 2002. The Japanese test case could finally resolve a longstanding dispute between monetarists and money reformers over the economic effects of government-issued money.
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Public Banking in Costa Rica: A Remarkable Little-known Model In Costa Rica, publicly-owned banks have been available for so long and work so well that people take for granted that any country that knows how to run an economy has a public banking option. Costa Ricans are amazed to hear there is only one public depository bank in the United States (the Bank of North Dakota), and few people have private access to it.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013Public Banking in Costa Rica: A Remarkable Little-known Model In Costa Rica, publicly-owned banks have been available for so long and work so well that people take for granted that any country that knows how to run an economy has a public banking option. Costa Ricans are amazed to hear there is only one public depository bank in the United States (the Bank of North Dakota), and few people have private access to it.
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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 . . . .
Saturday, June 14, 2008What'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 . . . .
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Friday, March 14, 2014
Warren's Post Office Proposal: Palast Aims at the Wrong Target Investigative reporter Greg Palast is usually pretty good at peering behind the rhetoric and seeing what is really going on. But in tearing into Senator Elizabeth Warren's support of postal financial services, he has done a serious disservice to the underdogs -- both the underbanked and the US Postal Service itself.
Friday, March 14, 2014Warren's Post Office Proposal: Palast Aims at the Wrong Target Investigative reporter Greg Palast is usually pretty good at peering behind the rhetoric and seeing what is really going on. But in tearing into Senator Elizabeth Warren's support of postal financial services, he has done a serious disservice to the underdogs -- both the underbanked and the US Postal Service itself.
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Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Bank of North Dakota Soars Despite Oil Bust: A Blueprint for California? Despite North Dakota's collapsing oil market, its state-owned bank continues to report record profits. This article looks at what California, with fifty times North Dakota's population, could do following that state's lead.
Tuesday, May 3, 2016Bank of North Dakota Soars Despite Oil Bust: A Blueprint for California? Despite North Dakota's collapsing oil market, its state-owned bank continues to report record profits. This article looks at what California, with fifty times North Dakota's population, could do following that state's lead.
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Saturday, February 9, 2019
The Venezuela Myth Keeping Us From Transforming Our Economy Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is getting significant media attention these days, after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview that it should "be a larger part of our conversation" when it comes to funding the Green New Deal. According to MMT, the government can spend what it needs without worrying about deficits.
Saturday, February 9, 2019The Venezuela Myth Keeping Us From Transforming Our Economy Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is getting significant media attention these days, after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview that it should "be a larger part of our conversation" when it comes to funding the Green New Deal. According to MMT, the government can spend what it needs without worrying about deficits.
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Monday, February 25, 2013
How the Fed Could Fix the Economy--and Why It Hasn't Quantitative easing (QE) is supposed to stimulate the economy by adding money to the money supply, increasing demand. But so far, it hasn't been working. Why not? Because as practiced for the last two decades, QE does not actually increase the circulating money supply. It merely cleans up the toxic balance sheets of banks.
Monday, February 25, 2013How the Fed Could Fix the Economy--and Why It Hasn't Quantitative easing (QE) is supposed to stimulate the economy by adding money to the money supply, increasing demand. But so far, it hasn't been working. Why not? Because as practiced for the last two decades, QE does not actually increase the circulating money supply. It merely cleans up the toxic balance sheets of banks.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Robbing Main Street to Prop Up Wall Street: Why Jerry Brown's Rainy Day Fund Is a Bad Idea There is no need to sequester funds urgently needed by Main Street to pay for Wall Street's malfeasance. Californians can have their cake and eat it too -- with a state-owned bank.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014Robbing Main Street to Prop Up Wall Street: Why Jerry Brown's Rainy Day Fund Is a Bad Idea There is no need to sequester funds urgently needed by Main Street to pay for Wall Street's malfeasance. Californians can have their cake and eat it too -- with a state-owned bank.
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
IMF-STYLE AUSTERITY COMES TO AMERICA In addition to mandatory private health insurance premiums, we may soon be hit with a "mandatory savings" tax and other belt-tightening measures urged by the President's new budget task force. These radical austerity measures are not only unnecessary but will actually make matters worse. The push for "fiscal responsibility" is based on bad economics.
Thursday, March 4, 2010IMF-STYLE AUSTERITY COMES TO AMERICA In addition to mandatory private health insurance premiums, we may soon be hit with a "mandatory savings" tax and other belt-tightening measures urged by the President's new budget task force. These radical austerity measures are not only unnecessary but will actually make matters worse. The push for "fiscal responsibility" is based on bad economics.
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
The Growing Movement for State-owned Banks As the states' credit crisis deepens, four states have initiated bills for state-owned banks, and candidates in seven states have now included that solution in their platforms.
Saturday, March 20, 2010The Growing Movement for State-owned Banks As the states' credit crisis deepens, four states have initiated bills for state-owned banks, and candidates in seven states have now included that solution in their platforms.
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
INFLATION FEARS: REAL OR HYSTERIA? Far from inflation being the problem, the money supply has shrunk and we are in a deflationary bind. The money supply needs to be pumped back up to generate jobs and productivity; and in the system we have today, that is done by issuing bonds, or debt.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011INFLATION FEARS: REAL OR HYSTERIA? Far from inflation being the problem, the money supply has shrunk and we are in a deflationary bind. The money supply needs to be pumped back up to generate jobs and productivity; and in the system we have today, that is done by issuing bonds, or debt.
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