Hang On to Your Wallet: Negative Interest, the War on Cash and the $10 Trillion Bail-In

By Ellen Brown / Web of Debt Nov 21, 2015 If you’re an ordinary saver with money in the bank, you may soon be paying the bank to hold your funds rather than the reverse. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

How Obama Could Beat the Debt Ceiling and Go Out a Hero

By Ellen Brown / Web of Debt Oct 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 )

Killing Off Community Banks: Intended Consequence of Dodd-Frank?

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Oct 22, 2015 The Dodd-Frank regulations are so lethal to community banks that they are rapidly disappearing—except in North Dakota, where they are thriving. Some say the intent was to force them to sell out to the mega-banks. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Time for the Nuclear Option: Raining Money on Main Street

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Sep 23, 2015 Economists predict that we will soon see the direct injection of central bank-created money into the real economy worldwide. All other options having failed, governments will cover budget deficits by issuing money outright. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Financial Support for the People: The U.K. Labour Front-Runner’s Controversial Proposal

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Sep 3, 2015 British MP Jeremy Corbyn has proposed a “quantitative easing for people" that has critics crying hyperinflation and supporters saying, "It’s about time." Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Trumping the Federal Debt Without Playing the Default Card

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Aug 19, 2015 How can the U.S. remain strong, with very little debt, without defaulting on Social Security, Medicare or the federal debt itself? By reducing the debt by buying it and ripping it up. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Grexit or Jubilee? How Greek Debt Can Be Annulled

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Jul 16, 2015 The crushing Greek debt could be canceled the way it was made—by sleight of hand. But saving the Greek people and their economy is evidently not in the game plan of the Eurocrats. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

‘Guerrilla Warfare Against a Hegemonic Power’: The Challenge and Promise of Greece

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Jul 10, 2015 By nationalizing its banks and issuing digital loans and thus restoring the liquidity desperately needed by banks and the economy, Greece could provide a model of sustainable prosperity for the world. But it is being strangled by a hegemonic power in a financial war being waged against us all. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

‘Sentence First, Verdict Afterwards’: The ‘Alice in Wonderland’ World of Secret Trade Agreements

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Jun 24, 2015 The terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Trade in Services Agreement are so secret that drafts of the negotiations are to remain classified for four years and five years after the deals become law. How can laws be enforced against people and governments who are not allowed to know what was negotiated? Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

‘Fast Track’ Would Hand the Money Monopoly to Private Banks—Permanently

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Jun 13, 2015 If successful, the rush to “fast track” a trio of controversial trade deals would nip attempts to implement public banking and other monetary reforms in the bud. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Death of the Republic

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Apr 26, 2015 On April 22, the Senate Finance Committee approved a bill to fast-track the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive trade agreement that would override our republican form of government and hand judicial and legislative authority to a foreign three-person panel of corporate lawyers. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

How America Became an Oligarchy

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Apr 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 )