President-elect Donald Trump isn’t just appointing incompetent buffoons to his Cabinet, but deeply immoral individuals who are completely lacking in family values.
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In Praise of Class Traitors: Former Goldman Exec Runs for N.J. Governor on Public Banking Platform
Days after Phil Murphy’s call for a publicly-owned Bank of New Jersey sent shockwaves across state and national media, the proposal received an unexpected favor: Governor Chris Christie attacked it.
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How Secret Wall Street Fees Are Bleeding Our Cities Dry
A new project launched by the Public Banking Institute, called "What Wall Street Costs America," shines light on the way that enormous fees being paid out by local governments to big banks are bankrupting communities across the country.
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Looking to 2016, Is Your Money Better Off in a Mattress?
As European central banks employ negative interest rates and all-digital currencies, giving bankers complete control over your access to your money, the question is not a silly one.
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Can Public Banks Become America's New Engine Of Prosperity?
New bedfellows are writing what may be the next chapter in the story of our democracy: a network of public banks to facilitate a lateral, collaborative distribution of affordable credit that challenges Wall Street's control.
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Why Californians Are Paying Double – In Interest to the Banks
The Bay Bridge retrofit was slated to cost $6.3 billion, but with interest and fees, taxpayers will shell out over $12 billion - indicative of a trend in the Golden State.
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Pod Cast: It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown
On this edition of “It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown”, Ellen speaks with leading protagonists helping individual citizens take matters into their own hands
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The Stone that Brings Down Goliath?
The city of Richmond, Calif., has gone where no other city has dared: threatening to take underwater mortgages by eminent domain from Wall Street banks and renegotiating them on behalf of homeowners.
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The Warren Proposal: Postal Banking Is Key Financial Reform In the Public Good
The postal financial services Senator Elizabeth Warren suggests are important first steps toward democratizing our economy.
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Now Is the Moment to Save Our Postal Commons
Because postal services, owned by the people, are part of the commons, the attack on public postal utilities amounts to an attack on the commons itself.
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Hedges: Overthrow the Speculators and Build Public Banks
We can wrest back control of our economy and our political system from corporate speculators with local movements that decentralize economic power through the creation of hundreds of publicly owned state, county and city banks.
