Government by the Banks, for the Banks: The ESM Coup D’Etat in Europe
Ellen H. Brown, Contributor Activist Post On Friday, June 29th, German Chancellor Angela Merkel acquiesced to changes to a permanent Eurozone bailout fund—“before the ink…
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Indentured Servitude for Students and Seniors
Ellen H. Brown, Contributor Activist Post “The Social Security program…represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread…
The European Central Bank Fiddles While Rome Burns
Wiki image Ellen Brown Global Research “To some people, the European Central Bank seems like a fire department that is letting the house burn down…
Time for an Economic Bill of Rights
Anthony Freda Art Ellen H. Brown Global Research Henry Ford said, “It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our…
Titanic Battle or Insider Trading? The S&P Downgrade and the Bilderbergers: All Part of the Plan?
Ellen Brown Global Research What just happened in the stock market? Last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose or fell by at least 400…
The Market Has Spoken: Austerity Is Bad for Business
It used to be that when the Fed Chairman spoke, the market listened; but the Chairman has lost his mystique. Now when the market speaks,…
Why Banks Aren’t Lending: The Silent Liquidity Sqeeze
Why aren’t banks lending to local businesses? The Fed’s decision to pay interest on $1.6 trillion in “excess” reserves is a chief suspect. Ellen H….
Libya: All About Oil, or All About Banking?
Dees Illustration Ellen Brown Global Research Several writers have noted the odd fact that the Libyan rebels took time out from their rebellion in March…
Secretive Plan For a Global Currency
Excerpt from “The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century“ Ellen H. Brown Global Research By acting together to fulfill these pledges…
How Wisconsin Could Turn Austerity into Prosperity — Own a Bank
Public sector man sitting in a bar: “They’re trying to take away our pensions.” Private sector man: “What’s a pension?” – Cartoon in the Houston…
Most U.S. Cities and States Float in a Sea of Red Ink
Greg Hunter USA Watchdog Nearly every state in the Union and nearly every large city are facing ballooning budgets and shrinking tax revenue. (confiscation) Some, such…
What’s Really Behind Quantitative Easing QE2? The Looming Threat of a Crippling Debt Service
Ellen Brown Web of Debt The deficit hawks are circling, hovering over QE2, calling it just another inflationary bank bailout. But unlike QE1, QE2 is…
Time for a New Theory of Money
By understanding that money is simply credit, we unleash it as a powerful tool for our communities. Ellen Brown Yes Magazine The reason our financial…
Foreclosuregate: Time to Break Up Too-Big-to-Fail Banks?
Ellen Brown Web Of Debt Looming losses from the mortgage scandal dubbed “foreclosuregate” may qualify as the sort of systemic risk that, under the new…