By Ellen Brown / Web of DebtSep 21, 2016
Using technology developed for Bitcoin, central banks around the world could usher in a model of banking and credit that renders private banking obsolete. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 24, 2015
Banks are bigger today than before the crash that began in late 2007 and subsequent bailout. To rein them in, we should begin by forbidding “big bank executives to serve on the boards of the main agency in charge of regulating financial institutions,” Sanders writes in The New York Times. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
By Ellen Brown / Web of DebtDec 14, 2015
These transformations, current and proposed, are constructive steps toward streamlining the banking system, eliminating the risks that have devastated individuals and governments, democratizing money, and promoting sustainable and prosperous economies. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
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By Ellen Brown / Web of DebtOct 28, 2015
The debt ceiling is an unconstitutional gimmick that violates the 14th Amendment, and it could be eliminated for good by restoring to the government its constitutional authority to create money. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
By Ellen Brown, Web of DebtApr 8, 2015
At the core of the doctrine that all people have “certain inalienable rights” is the right to vote. But the collective will of American voters no longer prevails. And private banking is largely to blame. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
By Ellen Brown, Web of DebtDec 7, 2012
Will a publicly owned bank help Scotland avoid unnecessary debt and take control of its economic destiny as North Dakotans did in the U.S.? Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
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