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…
Ellen Brown: More Banks to Fail? Not in North Dakota
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost U.S. banks are again in the crosshairs. Standard and Poor’s has downgraded five new middle-tier banks and put three others on negative outlook.…
Ellen Brown: War By Other Means: Short Selling JPMorgan Chase
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost When the FDIC put Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank into receivership in March, a study reported on the Social Science Research…
Ellen Brown: Another Look at the Financial Transactions Tax
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost A small financial transactions tax could correct a number of maladies in our economic system, from the federal debt crisis to the widening…
Ellen Brown: How the War on Crypto Triggered a Banking Crisis
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost According to an article in American Banker titled “SEC’s Gensler Directly Links Crypto and Bank Failures,” SEC Chair Gary Gensler has asked for…
Ellen Brown: The Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Disaster
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost Holidays in my childhood were spent at my grandparents’ farm in Plain Grove, Pennsylvania, 35 miles from East Palestine, Ohio. My grandfather’s grandfather…
Ellen Brown: Banking Crisis 3.0: Time to Change the Rules of the Game
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost On CNN March 14, Roger Altman, a former deputy Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, said that American banks were on the verge…
What Will Happen When Banks Go Bust? Bank Runs, Bail-Ins and Systemic Risk
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost Financial podcasts have been featuring ominous headlines lately along the lines of “Your Bank Can Legally Seize Your Money” and “Banks Can STEAL…
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Ellen Brown: What Does the Fed’s Jerome Powell Have Up His Sleeve?
The Real Goal of Fed Policy: Breaking Inflation, the Middle Class or the Bubble Economy?
Ellen Brown: How to Green Our Parched Farmlands and Finance Critical Infrastructure
There are work-arounds the U.S. can use to fund affordable housing, drought responses, and other urgently-needed infrastructure that was left out of the two recent spending bills.
Ellen Brown: Interest Rate Hikes Will Not Save Us From Inflation
Rather than making money harder to get, the U.S. government needs to focus on the other side of the demand vs. supply inflation equation.
Ellen Brown: Achieving Self-Funding Local Sovereignty as Global Food Systems Collapse
The solution to the current food crisis is small and local, including growing food locally. But how to fund local food co-ops without pricey loans from big banks?