All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame
Ellen Brown ScheerPost“The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the…
Regime Change at the Fed: From Big Bank Bailouts to Local Productivity
By Ellen Brown ScheerPost On January 30, when former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump as the central bank’s next chair, markets sold off and…
The Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking America’s Financial Plumbing
By Ellen Brown A Jan. 17 article on Quartz Markets by Catherine Baab reports that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America returned nearly all of…
Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power
By Ellen Brown for Scheerpost Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it…
Ellen Brown: Why New York City Needs a Public Bank
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost “We will build a city-owned bank — not to serve shareholders, but to serve you. A bank that invests in housing, in transit,…
Ellen Brown: How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part II: Curbing Fed Independence
History shows that sovereign money creation can be a tool for public good when wielded wisely. It is time to reclaim that tool, not to serve the banks and speculative…
Ellen Brown: How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain
The Fed has issued trillions of dollars in reserves to save the banks, its real constituents. Would it do that to save the government?
Ellen Brown: Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls
The Department of Defense’s $885.7 billion budget for 2025, approved by the House of Representatives, dwarfs the military spending of China ($296 billion), Russia ($84 billion), and the next eight…
Ellen Brown: The GENIUS Act and the National Bank Acts of 1863-64: Taking a Cue from Lincoln
Designed to regulate stablecoins, a category of cryptocurrency designed to maintain a stable value, the Act is highly controversial.
President Trump’s Proposal to Eliminate Income Taxes: Can It Be Done?
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost In February, President Trump said that tariffs would generate so much income that Americans would no longer need to pay income taxes. The…
Ellen Brown: McKinley or Lincoln? Tariffs vs. Greenbacks
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost President Trump has repeatedly expressed his admiration for Republican President William McKinley, highlighting his use of tariffs as a model for economic policy.…
Ellen Brown: ‘Quantitative Easing with Chinese Characteristics’: How to Fund an Economic Miracle
Rather than trying to kneecap our competitors with sanctions and tariffs, we can grow our way to prosperity by turning on the engines of production.
Ellen Brown: Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game — The Bank of North Dakota Model
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost North Dakota is staunchly conservative, having voted Republican in every presidential election since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. So how is it that the…
Ellen Brown: How to Escape the Federal Debt Trap
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost The U.S. national debt just passed $36 trillion, only four months after it passed $35 trillion and up $2 trillion for the year.…
Ellen Brown: Our Fragile Infrastructure: Lessons From Hurricane Helene
Publicly-owned state and federal banks are possibilities for future disasters, but they will be too late for the flood victims of Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee.