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Tag Archives: Public Banks
Another Bank Bailout Under Cover of a Virus
By Ellen Brown Source: Web of Debt Insolvent Wall Street banks have been quietly bailed out again. Banks made risk-free by the government should be public utilities. When the Dodd Frank Act was passed in 2010, President Obama triumphantly … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged bail-ins, Bank Bailouts, CARES act, central banks, coronavirus, Covid-19, Dodd Frank Act, Economic Collapse, Economics, economy, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Great Depression, Pandemic, Public Banks, repo market, wall street
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Newsletter: From Neoliberal Injustice To Economic Democracy
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Source: Dissident Voice The work to transform society involves two parallel paths: resisting harmful systems and institutions and creating new systems and institutions to replace them. Our focus in this article is on positive work that … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, culture, Economics, Energy, Philosophy, Revolution, society, Sociology
Tagged activism, Community Land Trusts, Cooperatives, Decentralization, Democracy, Economic Democracy, Economics, empire, Empire Economy, Ethics, Friedrich Hayek, imperialism, John Maynard Keynes, Mutual Aid, Neoliberalism, Public Banks, Public Finance, resistance, Solar Energy, Styagraha, Swaraj, Universal Basic Income
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WSJ reports: Bank of North Dakota outperforms Wall Street
By Ellen Brown Source: Intrepid Report While 49 state treasuries were submerged in red ink after the 2008 financial crash, one state’s bank outperformed all others and actually launched an economy-shifting new industry. So reports the Wall Street Journal this … Continue reading