Stories by Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown is an attorney, author, and president of the Public Banking Institute. Her latest book is Web of Debt. subscribe to Ellen Brown's feed

It’s the Interest, Stupid! Why Bankers Rule the World

Posted on: Nov 8, 2012, Source: Web of Debt blog

Banking and credit should become public utilities, feeding the economy rather than feeding off it.

Why the Fed's "QE3" Plan Won't Jumpstart the Economy - And What Would

Posted on: Sep 21, 2012, Source: Web of Debt blog

What the country needs is money in the pockets of consumers and a focus on employment.

A Timely Idea to Save the Post Office: Bring Back Postal Banking Services

Posted on: Aug 14, 2012, Source: Web of Debt blog

Letter carriers consider an idea that would generate revenue and provide vital services to the unbanked.

Why the U.S. Senate Sucks Up to Public Enemy Jamie Dimon

Posted on: Jun 20, 2012, Source: Web of Debt blog

Is Dimon coddled because JP Morgan derivatives are propping up U.S. debt?

Greece and the Euro: Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover

Posted on: Jun 7, 2012, Source: Web of Debt blog

Five creative alternatives to an ugly break-up.

12-Year-Old Girl Explains What Most Economists Can't About Money and Debt

Posted on: Jun 3, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Victoria Grant told a conference that governments, not banks, should create and lend a nation's money--and a video of her talk has gone viral on the Internet.

Cooperative Banking, the Exciting Wave of the Future

Posted on: May 22, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Rather than feeding off the community, banking can nourish the community and local economy.

Grandmothers' Social Security Garnished for Student Loans? Time to Fix the Broken Student Debt System

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.

Toxic Student Debt Might Blow Up Our Economy -- Why the Fed Must Bail Out the Millions of Young People Crushed by Student Loans

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?

What We Can Learn from Germany: How Countries With Publicly Owned Banks Do Better Than America

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.

North Dakota Fights Wall Street's Influence With a State Bank

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.

Vision: Time for a New Theory of Money

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.

Could a Legal Technicality Prevent Banks from Having the Right to Foreclose on 62 Million Homes?

Posted on: Aug 19, 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.

The Growing Movement for Publicly Owned Banks

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.

California Doesn't Need to Borrow Billions from Washington -- It Can Create Its Own Money

Posted on: May 26, 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.