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.
Ellen Brown: The Florida State Sunshine Bank: How a State-Owned Bank Can Protect Free Speech
The 15-year movement for public banking in the U.S. has gained traction, with Florida's Jimmy Patronis proposing a state-owned bank to protect against debanking and empower local financial control. The…
How Unelected Regulators Unleashed the Derivatives Monster – and How It Might Be Tamed
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost “It was not the highly visible acts of Congress but the seemingly mundane and often nontransparent actions of regulatory agencies that empowered the…
Ellen Brown: The Supreme Court Takes on the Administrative State
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost In a highly controversial decision, the Supreme Court on June 28 reversed a 40-year old ruling, reclaiming the Court’s role as interpreter of…
Ellen Brown: Why Does the Government Borrow When It Can Print?
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost In the first seven months of Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, net interest (payments minus income) on the federal debt reached $514 billion, exceeding…
Ellen Brown on Tackling California’s Budget Crisis: Raise Taxes, Cut Programs, or Form a Bank?
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost In 2022, the state of California celebrated a record budget surplus of $97.5 billion. Two years later, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office,…
Ellen Brown on the Public Bank That Wasn’t: New Jersey’s Excursion into Public Banking
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost In 2017, Phil Murphy, a former Goldman Sachs executive, made the establishment of a public, state-owned bank a centerpiece issue during his run…
Ellen Brown: Defusing the Derivatives Time Bomb: Some Proposed Solutions
The “protected class” is granted “safe harbor” only because their bets are so risky that to let them fail could crash the economy. But why let them bet at all?
Ellen Brown: Casino Capitalism and the Derivatives Market: Time for Another ‘Lehman Moment’?
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost Reading the tea leaves for the 2024 economy is challenging. On January 5th, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said we have achieved a “soft…
Ellen Brown: Three Presidents Who Made Thanksgiving a National Holiday—And What They Were Celebrating
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost Three U.S. presidents were instrumental in establishing Thanksgiving as a regular national event. On October 3, 1789, George Washington declared the first federal…