By Les Leopold, AlterNetMar 30, 2013
North Dakota's thriving state bank makes a mockery of Wall Street's casino banking system -- and that's why financial elites want to crush it. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
By Ellen Brown, Web of DebtMar 28, 2013
Confiscating customer deposits in Cyprus banks was not a one-off, desperate idea of a few eurozone “troika” officials scrambling to salvage their balance sheets. A joint paper by the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England, dated Dec. 10, 2012, shows these plans have been long in the making. 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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