Ellen Brown: Higher education has been financialized, transformed from a public service into a lucrative cash cow for private investors.
Ellen Brown is an attorney, president of the Public Banking Institute, and the author of eleven books, including Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free. Her websites are WebofDebt.com and PublicBankingInstitute.org.
The Public Bank Option: Safer, Local and Half the Cost
Ellen Brown: Phil Murphy, a former banker with a double-digit lead in New Jersey’s race for governor, has made a state-owned bank a centerpiece of his platform. If he wins on November 7, the nation’s second state-owned bank in a century could follow.
Regulation Is Killing Community Banks: Public Banks Can Revive Them
Ellen Brown: Crushing regulations are driving small banks to sell out to the megabanks, a consolidation process that appears to be intentional. Publicly-owned banks can help avoid that trend and keep credit flowing in local economies.
Wiping Out Puerto Rico’s Debt Without Hurting Bondholders
Ellen Brown: Puerto Rico is bankrupt, its economy destroyed. In fact it is currently in bankruptcy proceedings with its creditors. Which suggests its time for some more out-of-the-box thinking.
How to Fund a Universal Basic Income Without Increasing Taxes or Inflation
Ellen Brown: Studies have also shown that it would actually be cheaper to distribute funds to the entire population than to run the welfare services governments engage in now.
Getting More Bang for the State’s Bucks
We need to start thinking outside the box, a Wall Street-imposed box that has trapped us in austerity and economic servitude for over a century.
Higher Interest Rates Will Kill the Recovery
Ellen Brown: Higher interest rates will triple the interest on the federal debt to $830 billion annually by 2026, will hurt workers and young voters, and could bankrupt over 20% of US corporations, according to the IMF. The move is not necessary to counteract inflation and shows that the Fed is operating from the wrong model.
If China Can Fund infrastructure with Its Own Credit, So Can We
While American politicians debate endlessly over how to finance the needed fixes and which ones to implement, the Chinese have managed to fund massive infrastructure projects all across their country
“Ryancare” Dead on Arrival: Can We Please Now Try Single Payer?
Ellen Brown: So which industrialized countries do it better than the US? The answer is, all of them.
How to Cut Infrastructure Costs in Half
Ellen Brown: Americans could save $1 trillion over 10 years by financing infrastructure through publicly-owned banks like the one that has long been operating in North Dakota.
The Italian Banking Crisis: No Free Lunch—Or Is There?
Ellen Brown: It has been called “a bigger risk than Brexit”– the Italian banking crisis that could take down the eurozone. Handwringing officials say “there is no free lunch” and “no magic bullet.” But UK Prof. Richard Werner says the magic bullet is just being ignored.
Trump’s $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan: Lincoln Had a Bolder Solution
Ellen Brown: Trump needs to try something new; and for this he could look to Abraham Lincoln, whose bold solution was very similar to one now being considered in Europe: just print the money.
Prop. 51 Versus a State-Owned Bank: How California Can Save $10 Billion on a $9 Billion Loan
Ellen Brown: When deposited in its own state-owned bank, the state’s revenues would be just as safe, liquid and available as they would be if deposited in a Wall Street bank.
