Posted on March 4, 2021 by Ellen Brown |
Just over two months into the new year, 2021 has already seen a flurry of public banking activity. Sixteen new bills to form publicly-owned banks or facilitate their formation were introduced in eight U.S. states in January and February. Two bills for a state-owned bank were introduced in New Mexico, two in Massachusetts, two in New York, […]
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Posted on December 3, 2020 by Ellen Brown |
The Fed’s policy tools – interest rate manipulation, quantitative easing, and “Special Purpose Vehicles” – have all failed to revive local economies suffering from government-mandated shutdowns. The Fed must rely on private banks to inject credit into Main Street, and private banks are currently unable or unwilling to do it. The tools the Fed actually […]
Filed under: Ellen Brown Articles/Commentary | Tagged: Federal Reserve, public banking, quantitative easing, Special Purpose Vehicles |
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Posted on January 17, 2020 by Ellen Brown |
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Posted on January 8, 2020 by Ellen Brown |
http:// The Public Banking Solution, 6.19 from Princeton TV on Vimeo.
Filed under: Ellen Brown Articles/Commentary, video | Tagged: public banking, public banking movement, repo crisis |
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Posted on December 5, 2019 by Ellen Brown |
Interest in public banking is high! I just finished a run of 11 presentations and in-person interviews in 7 cities in 10 weeks. Here’s a video from one, a debate with a county official sponsored by the League of Women Voters in San Diego, and two power points from another, the Soil and Nutrition Conference […]
Filed under: video | Tagged: Bank of North Dakota, Cal. AB 857, Federal Reserve, Green New Deal, People's QE, public banking, regenerative agriculture |
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Posted on April 18, 2019 by Ellen Brown |
As public banking gains momentum across the country, policymakers in California and Washington state are vying to form the nation’s second state-owned bank, following in the footsteps of the highly successful Bank of North Dakota, founded in 1919. The race is close, with state bank bills now passing their first round of hearings in both […]
Filed under: Ellen Brown Articles/Commentary | Tagged: Bank of North Dakota, California Infrastructure and Development Bank, public banking, Washington State Investment Trust |
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Posted on March 21, 2019 by Ellen Brown |
As alarm bells sound over the advancing destruction of the environment, a variety of Green New Deal proposals have appeared in the US and Europe, along with some interesting academic debates about how to fund them. Monetary policy, normally relegated to obscure academic tomes and bureaucratic meetings behind closed doors, has suddenly taken center stage. […]
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Posted on November 10, 2018 by Ellen Brown |
Posted on July 4, 2018 by Ellen Brown |
California legislators exploring the public bank option may be breaking not just from Wall Street but from the Federal Reserve. Voters in Los Angeles will be the first in the country to weigh in on a public banking mandate, after the City Council agreed on June 29th to put a measure on the November ballot […]
Filed under: Ellen Brown Articles/Commentary | Tagged: cannabis cash, Fiona Ma, Los Angeles public bank, pot banks, public banking, SB 930 |
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Posted on May 26, 2018 by Ellen Brown |
California has over $700 billion parked in private banks earning minimal interest, private equity funds that contributed to the affordable housing crisis, or shadow banks of the sort that caused the banking collapse of 2008. These funds, or some of them, could be transferred to an infrastructure bank that generated credit for the state – […]
Filed under: Ellen Brown Articles/Commentary | Tagged: BlackRock, Blackstone, California Infrastructure Bank, CalPERS, CalSTRS, public banking |
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Posted on November 4, 2017 by Ellen Brown |
Phil Murphy, a former banker with a double-digit lead in New Jersey’s race for governor, has made a state-owned bank a centerpiece of his platform. If he wins on November 7, the nation’s second state-owned bank in a century could follow. A UK study published on October 27, 2017 reported that the majority of […]
Filed under: Ellen Brown Articles/Commentary | Tagged: Bank of North Dakota, Phil Murphy, public banking |
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Posted on October 30, 2017 by Ellen Brown |
Crushing regulations are driving small banks to sell out to the megabanks, a consolidation process that appears to be intentional. Publicly-owned banks can help avoid that trend and keep credit flowing in local economies. At his confirmation hearing in January 2017, Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin said, “regulation is killing community banks.” If the process is […]
Filed under: Ellen Brown Articles/Commentary | Tagged: Bank of North Dakota, banking regulations, community banks, Dodd-Frank, Patriot Act, public banking |
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Posted on May 17, 2017 by Ellen Brown |
The cavalry has arrived! Great to see so many young people getting behind public banking. We had a rousing forum on Saturday, May 13th, at the Puente Learning Center in Los Angeles. The links to the Facebook live videos and photo album are here: Part 2: https://www.facebook.com/BernieSandersBrigade/videos/1737555312927578/ Part 3: https://www.facebook.com/BernieSandersBrigade/videos/1737601809589595/ Part 4: https://www.facebook.com/BernieSandersBrigade/videos/1737631266253316/ https://www.facebook.com/pg/BernieSandersBrigade/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1739237269426049 The Bernie Sanders Brigade also made […]
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Ellen Brown for the Deep Dive Berlin Conference, September 2015 To introduce the concept of public banking, here are some excerpts from my book The Public Bank Solution (2013) and several articles. From the Introduction to The Public Bank Solution We have entered a millennium that is pregnant with possibility. New discoveries in agricultural production, […]
Posted on November 30, 2016 by Ellen Brown |
Here are my latest efforts at presenting the public banking model by power point. The longer version was at an event in Englewood, CO, on October 30, called “Taking Back the Money Power: The Public Option in Banking.” The shorter version was at an event in Santa Rosa, CA, on November 9 called “Cannabis Cash […]
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Posted on June 17, 2016 by Ellen Brown |
California Democratic Party Business and Professional Caucus, Saturday at 6:30 June 18th, at the Long Beach Hyatt Regency Hotel, 200 S. Pine Ave, Long Beach. Moderator – Ray Bishop, Chair, Business & Professional Caucus, County Small Business Commission, City Commission Industrial Development Authority, Business Owner. Ellen Brown – Attorney and Founder of the National Public Banking […]
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Posted on February 29, 2016 by Ellen Brown |
I’m currently in Switzerland, after presentations on public banking in Reykjavik, Iceland; London, UK; Manchester, UK; and Cardiff, Wales. Very interesting and productive trip! A February 13th seminar on public banking was sponsored by the Dawn Party in Reykjavik. Below is a youtube video of my power point followed by one by Wolfram Morales of […]
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Posted on February 10, 2015 by Ellen Brown |
Public banks in North Dakota, Germany and Switzerland have been shown to outperform their private counterparts. Under the TPP and TTIP, however, publicly-owned banks on both sides of the oceans might wind up getting sued for unfair competition because they have advantages not available to private banks. In November 2014, the Wall Street Journal reported that […]
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Posted on January 29, 2015 by Ellen Brown |
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Posted on October 22, 2014 by Ellen Brown |
The Pennsylvania Project hosted the East Coast edition of the Public Banking Institute national conference in Philadelphia last Saturday. Thanks Pennsylvania team! I thought I would post my power point presentation (the sixth I’ve done since July), since it has a more complete discussion of the pressing issue always on the minds of elected officials: […]
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Will 2021 Be Public Banking’s Watershed Moment?
Just over two months into the new year, 2021 has already seen a flurry of public banking activity. Sixteen new bills to form publicly-owned banks or facilitate their formation were introduced in eight U.S. states in January and February. Two bills for a state-owned bank were introduced in New Mexico, two in Massachusetts, two in New York, […]
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