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2018/12/172018/12/16

Ellen Brown: Green New Deal Might Work – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rocking….

This Radical Plan to Fund the ‘Green New Deal’ Just Might Work With what author and activist Naomi Klein calls “galloping momentum,” the “Green New Deal” promoted by Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., appears to be forging a political pathway for solving all of the ills of society and the planet in one fell swoop. Her …

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2018/11/042018/11/03

Ellen Brown: Trump’s War on the Fed

Trump’s War on the Fed …perhaps the president’s goal is not to subtly affect Fed behavior so much as to make it patently obvious who is to blame when the next Great Recession hits. And recession is fairly certain to hit, because higher interest rates almost always trigger recessions. The Fed’s current policy of “quantitative …

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2018/10/032018/10/02

Ellen Brown: Kill Wall Street with State-Owned Banks (North Dakota Model)

How America Can Free Itself From Wall Street Local governments have been in bondage to Wall Street ever since the 19th century despite multiple efforts to rein them in. Regulation has not worked. To break free, we need to divest our public funds from these banks and move them into our own publicly owned banks. …

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2018/09/162018/09/15

Ellen Brown: Central Banks Gone Rogue — Rigging Markets

Central Banks Have Gone Rogue, Putting Us All at Risk …central banks are now buying individual stocks as investments, with a preference for big tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. Those are the stocks that dominate the market, and central banks are aggressively driving up their value. Markets, including the U.S. stock market, …

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2018/08/312018/08/29

Ellen Brown: China’s Mobile Ecosystems Making Banks and Credit Card Companies Obsolete

How China’s Mobile Ecosystems Are Making Banks Obsolete Giant Chinese tech companies have bypassed credit cards and banks to create their own low-cost digital payment systems.

2018/06/112018/06/09

Ellen Brown: How California Can Exit from Wall Street

How California Could Get Its Money Out of Wall Street The world’s fifth largest economy could keep the money in a state-owned bank to fund local infrastructure. California’s pools of idle funds can’t be spent because they must be saved for a “rainy day” or for future pension fund payouts; but they could be deposited …

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2018/01/282018/01/26

Ellen Brown: How Uncle Sam Launders Marijuana Money

How Uncle Sam Launders Marijuana Money In a blatant example of “do as I say, not as I do,” the US government is profiting handsomely by accepting marijuana cash in the payment of taxes while imposing huge penalties on banks for accepting it as deposits. Onerous reporting requirements are driving small local banks to sell …

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