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Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown is an attorney and founder of the Public Banking Institute. She is the author of twelve books, including the best-selling "Web of Debt," and "The Public Bank Solution," which explores successful public banking models historically and globally.

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Conservation or Land Grab? The Financialization of Nature

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.

Ellen Brown ·

Publicly-owned banks around the world have responded quickly and efficiently to crises. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Will 2021 Be Public Banking’s Watershed Moment?

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

Ellen Brown ·

Three promising new bills are before Congress that would facilitate the establishment of a public banking system in the US. (Kurtis Garbutt / CC BY 2.0)

Why the Fed Needs Public Banks

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.

Ellen Brown ·

BlackRock has been called "the most powerful institution in the financial system." (Photo: Brooke Anderson/@movementphotographer)

Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid

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.

Ellen Brown ·

The American people are therefore entitled to share in the benefits and the profits. Banking needs to be made a public utility. (Photo: Twitter/@publicbankla)

Another Bank Bailout Under Cover of a Virus

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

Ellen Brown ·

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Crushing the States, Saving the Banks: The Fed’s Generous New Rules

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

Ellen Brown ·

It took only a few days for Congress to unanimously pass the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which will be doling out $2.2 trillion in crisis relief, most of it going to Corporate America with few strings attached. (Photo: Public domain)

Was the Fed Just Nationalized?

Did Congress just nationalize the Fed? No. But the door to that result has been cracked open.

Ellen Brown ·

A man taking precautions amid the coronavirus outbreak walks past the New York Stock Exchange. (Photo: Mark Lennihan / AP)

The Fed’s Baffling Response to the Coronavirus Explained

The next time the country’s largest banks become insolvent, rather than bailing banks out, Congress should nationalize them.

Ellen Brown ·

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