Stories by Ellen Brown
Ellen Brown is an attorney, author, and president of the Public Banking Institute. Her latest book is Web of Debt.
Posted on May 13, 2012, Source: TruthOut.org
Congress has removed nearly every consumer protection from student loans, including bankruptcy protections, statutes of limitations and truth in lending requirements.
Posted on Oct 21, 2011, Source: TruthOut.org
To prevent another disaster like the one caused by the toxic debts on the books of Wall Street banks, we need to defuse the student debt bomb before it blows. But how?
Posted on Oct 18, 2011, Source: TruthOut.org
The public bank model remains a viable alternative to the private profiteering being protested on Wall Street today.
Posted on Sep 4, 2011, Source: YES! Magazine
What can we learn from North Dakota's economy? Plenty, and it starts with its unique state bank.
Posted on Dec 21, 2010, Source: YES! Magazine
We as a community can create our own credit, without having to engage in the sort of impossible pyramid scheme in which we're always borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.
Posted on Aug 20, 2010, Source: YES! Magazine
A judge recently held that banks' electronic shortcut for recording mortgage information makes it impossible for banks to establish their rights to ownership.
Posted on Mar 28, 2010, Source: YES! Magazine
We the people have given away our sovereign money-creating power to private, for-profit lending institutions Some states are moving to take that power back.
Posted on May 27, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Gov. Schwarzenegger thinks CA can only get credit from DC, but there's another way of doing it that the prosperous state of North Dakota figured out.
