Ellen Brown
@ellenhbrown
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attorney (retired), author of 13 books and several hundred articles, chairman of the Public Banking Institute, talk show hostess, mom and grandmother.
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Joined March 2009
Our Fragile Infrastructure: Lessons From Hurricane Helene, by @ellenhbrown
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Tackling California’s Budget Crisis: Raise Taxes, Cut Programs, or Form a Bank?
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In 2022, the state of California celebrated a record budget surplus of $97.5 billion. Two years later, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office, this surplus has plummeted to a record bud…
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How the War on Crypto Triggered a Banking Crisis
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According to an article in American Banker titled “SEC’s Gensler Directly Links Crypto and Bank Failures,” SEC Chair Gary Gensler has asked for more financial resources to police the cryp…
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The Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Disaster
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Holidays in my childhood were spent at my grandparents’ farm in Plain Grove, Pennsylvania, 35 miles from East Palestine, Ohio. My grandfather’s grandfather fought at Gettysburg and homesteaded the …
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Banking Crisis 3.0: Time to Change the Rules of the Game
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On CNN March 14, Roger Altman, a former deputy Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, said that American banks were on the verge of being nationalized: What the authorities did over…
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Web of Debt -- Banking Crisis 3.0: Time to Change the Rules of the Game
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The Looming Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Tsunami
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On Friday, March 10, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed and was taken over by federal regulators. SVB was the 16th largest bank in the country and its bankruptcy was the second largest in U.S. his…
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Web of Debt: The Looming Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Tsunami
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What Will Happen When Banks Go Bust? Bank Runs, Bail-Ins and Systemic Risk
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Financial podcasts have been featuring ominous headlines lately along the lines of “Your Bank Can Legally Seize Your Money” and “Banks Can STEAL Your Money?! Here’s How!” The reference is to “bail-…
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What Does the Fed’s Jerome Powell Have Up His Sleeve?
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The Real Goal of Fed Policy: Breaking Inflation, the Middle Class or the Bubble Economy? “There is no sense that inflation is coming down,” said Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at …
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How to Green Our Parched Farmlands and Finance Critical Infrastructure
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There are work-arounds the U.S. can use to fund affordable housing, drought responses, and other urgently-needed infrastructure that was left out of the two recent spending bills. Congress has pass…
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@NYCMayor @GovKathyHochul @NYCHA @AHA_housingall @PublicBankNYC @publicbanking @PublicBanksNow @nytimes @nypost @CrainsNewYork To put the city & state into surplus, forever, follow these 3 simple steps. These ideas are my own but reflect years of research & advocacy.
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Interest Rate Hikes Will Not Save Us from Inflation
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Rather than making money harder to get, the U.S. government needs to focus on the other side of the demand vs. supply equation. In prescribing cures for inflation, economists rely on the diagnosis …
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Achieving Self-Funding Local Sovereignty as Global Food Systems Collapse
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The solution to the current food crisis is small and local, including growing food locally. But how to fund local food co-ops without pricey loans from big banks? “Deglobalizing” and “dedollarizing…
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The Food Shortage Solution in Your Own Backyard
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While the global food systems we depend on come under increasing strain, there’s a solution to the growing crisis that most Americans can find in their own backyards–or front lawns. A confluence of…
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A Monetary Reset Where the Rich Don’t Own Everything
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We have a serious debt problem, but solutions such as the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset” are not the future we want. It’s time to think outside the box for some new solutions. In ancient Meso…
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