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Ellen Brown

@ellenhbrown

attorney (retired), author of 13 books and several hundred articles, chairman of the Public Banking Institute, talk show hostess, mom and grandmother.

 Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Joined March 2009
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Our Fragile Infrastructure: Lessons From Hurricane Helene, by @ellenhbrown open.substack.com/pub/ellenb…
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Tackling California’s Budget Crisis: Raise Taxes, Cut Programs, or Form a Bank? ellenbrown.com/2024/05/08/ta…
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Ellen Brown: Another Look at the Financial Transactions Tax

Ellen Brown: Another Look at the Financial Transactions Tax

Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash 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 cris…

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How the War on Crypto Triggered a Banking Crisis ellenbrown.com/2023/04/29/ho…
How the War on Crypto Triggered a Banking Crisis

How the War on Crypto Triggered a Banking Crisis

According to an article in American Banker titled “SEC’s Gensler Directly Links Crypto and Bank Failures,” SEC Chair Gary Gensler has asked for more financial resources to police the cryp…

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The Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Disaster ellenbrown.com/2023/04/13/th…
The Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Disaster

The Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Disaster

Holidays in my childhood were spent at my grandparents’ farm in Plain Grove, Pennsylvania, 35 miles from East Palestine, Ohio. My grandfather’s grandfather fought at Gettysburg and homesteaded the …

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Banking Crisis 3.0: Time to Change the Rules of the Game ellenbrown.com/2023/03/24/ba…
Banking Crisis 3.0: Time to Change the Rules of the Game

Banking Crisis 3.0: Time to Change the Rules of the Game

On CNN March 14, Roger Altman, a former deputy Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, said that American banks were on the verge of being nationalized: What the authorities did over…

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Web of Debt -- Banking Crisis 3.0: Time to Change the Rules of the Game ellenbrown.substack.com/p/ba…
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The Looming Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Tsunami ellenbrown.com/2023/03/13/th…
The Looming Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Tsunami

The Looming Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Tsunami

On Friday, March 10, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed and was taken over by federal regulators. SVB was the 16th largest bank in the country and its bankruptcy was the second largest in U.S. his…

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Web of Debt: The Looming Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Tsunami ellenbrown.substack.com/p/th…
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What Will Happen When Banks Go Bust? Bank Runs, Bail-Ins and Systemic Risk ellenbrown.com/2023/02/25/wh…
What Will Happen When Banks Go Bust? Bank Runs, Bail-Ins and Systemic Risk

What Will Happen When Banks Go Bust? Bank Runs, Bail-Ins and Systemic Risk

Financial podcasts have been featuring ominous headlines lately along the lines of “Your Bank Can Legally Seize Your Money” and “Banks Can STEAL Your Money?! Here’s How!” The reference is to “bail-…

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Solving the Debt Crisis the American Way ellenbrown.com/2023/01/20/so…
Solving the Debt Crisis the American Way

Solving the Debt Crisis the American Way

Our forefathers turned their debts into currency. That Constitutional approach could work today. On Friday, Jan. 13, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wrote to Congress that the U.S. govern…

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What Does the Fed’s Jerome Powell Have Up His Sleeve? ellenbrown.com/2022/12/10/wh…
What Does the Fed’s Jerome Powell Have Up His Sleeve?

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? “There is no sense that inflation is coming down,” said Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at …

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How to Green Our Parched Farmlands and Finance Critical Infrastructure  ellenbrown.com/2022/09/02/ho…
How to Green Our Parched Farmlands and Finance Critical Infrastructure

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. Congress has pass…

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Replying to @NYCMayor
@NYCMayor @GovKathyHochul @NYCHA @AHA_housingall @PublicBankNYC @publicbanking @PublicBanksNow @nytimes @nypost @CrainsNewYork To put the city & state into surplus, forever, follow these 3 simple steps. These ideas are my own but reflect years of research & advocacy.
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Image from scott baker (@NewThinking2)
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Interest Rate Hikes Will Not Save Us from Inflation ellenbrown.com/2022/07/28/in…
Interest Rate Hikes Will Not Save Us from Inflation

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 equation. In prescribing cures for inflation, economists rely on the diagnosis …

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Achieving Self-Funding Local Sovereignty as Global Food Systems Collapse ellenbrown.com/2022/07/09/ac…
Achieving Self-Funding Local Sovereignty as Global Food Systems Collapse

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? “Deglobalizing” and “dedollarizing…

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The Food Shortage Solution in Your Own Backyard ellenbrown.com/2022/06/09/th…
The Food Shortage Solution in Your Own Backyard

The Food Shortage Solution in Your Own Backyard

While the global food systems we depend on come under increasing strain, there’s a solution to the growing crisis that most Americans can find in their own backyards–or front lawns. A confluence of…

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A Reset that Serves the People ellenbrown.com/2022/05/19/a-…
A Reset that Serves the People

A Reset that Serves the People

Instead of buying into the World Economic Forum’s dystopian “Great Reset,” we can build an alternative system with a mandate to serve the people. This is part two to a May 4, 2022 article called “A…

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A Monetary Reset Where the Rich Don’t Own Everything ellenbrown.com/2022/05/05/a-…

A Monetary Reset Where the Rich Don’t Own Everything

We have a serious debt problem, but solutions such as the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset” are not the future we want. It’s time to think outside the box for some new solutions. In ancient Meso…

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