Wise woman Ellen Brown has been suggesting for many years that we need a political-economic system that serves each citizen and every citizen. This is her newest essay. Today’s article is reposted […]
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Wealth of richest 1% ‘equal to other 99%’
BBC Business News – The richest 1% now has as much wealth as the rest of the world combined, according to Oxfam. It uses data from Credit Suisse from October […]
Continue readingInequality and Modernization
Foreign Affairs – Ronald Inglehart writes: During the past century, economic inequality in the developed world has traced a massive U-shaped curve—starting high, curving downward, then curving sharply back up […]
Continue readingThe Public Bank Solution: San Francisco
Ellen Brown When the Occupiers took an interest in moving San Francisco’s money into a city-owned bank in 2011, it was chiefly on principle, in sympathy with the nationwide Move […]
Continue readingHow the Fed Could Fix the Economy—and Why It Hasn’t
Wise woman Ellen Brown’s latest article re-posted from the February 25th, 2013 issue of Common Dreams. Ellen Brown Quantitative easing (QE) is supposed to stimulate the economy by adding money […]
Continue readingA New Theory of Money
Ellen Brown The reason our financial system has routinely gotten into trouble, with periodic waves of depression like the one we’re battling now, may be due to a flawed perception […]
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