Ellen Brown

There are workarounds the U.S. can use to fund affordable housing, drought responses, and other urgently-needed infrastructure that was left out of the two recent spending bills.

Rather than making money harder to get, the U.S. government needs to focus on the other side of the demand vs. supply equation.

Just in time for the UN's policy push for "30 x 30"—30% of the earth to be “conserved” by 2030—a new Wall Street asset class puts up for sale the processes underpinning all life.

For local governments, public banks offer a path to escape monopoly control by giant private financial institutions over public policies.

The Fed must rely on private banks to inject credit into Main Street, and private banks are currently unable or unwilling to do it. The tools the Fed actually needs are public banks, which could and would do the job.

No private, unelected entity should have the power over the economy that BlackRock has, without a legally enforceable fiduciary duty to wield it in the public interest.

Insolvent Wall Street banks have been quietly bailed out again. Banks made risk-free by the government should be public utilities. 

The new terms could be harnessed for local governments to own and operate their own banks.