Why Banking Needs to Be Run as a Public Utility

Monday, July 13, 2020 - 1:00pm
Ellen Brown

The current financial crisis did not begin with a virus. It began in September 2019 with the collapse of the shadow banking system, requiring a bailout by the Federal Reserve. The shadow banking system supports the chartered banking system, which is systemically flawed. How to make an unsustainable system sustainable is the subject of this presentation. Ellen Brown is an attorney, chair of the Public Banking Institute, and author of thirteen books including the bestselling Nature’s Pharmacy (co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker) and Web of Debt. Her latest book is Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age. She also co-hosts a radio program on PRN.FM called “It’s Our Money.” Her 300+ blog articles are posted at EllenBrown.com.

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Jan 26, 2025
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Visit Cuba with the Center for Global Justice We would like to invite you to join us in an exciting visit to Cuba--a country committed to building socialism. Learn about Cuba’s public goods such as free health care and education, how Cuba dealt with the pandemic, its collective production in agricultural and urban cooperatives and much more... Read more

Upcoming Forums & Films

Monday, July 29, 2024 - 1:00pm
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Arturo Santamaria Gómez
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Everyday life in the San Miguel "bubble" is worlds away from that in Sinaloa, where cartel activity is a normal presence in the every fiber of politics, commerce and everyday life. Its perception within Sinaloa comes at least as much from ambient backdrop as through efforts in the media to pierce the curtain. Not many writers take on  that... Read more

Monday, August 5, 2024 - 1:00pm
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Book Party
Cynthia Yoder
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Cynthia Yoder's memoir tells her story of working in a new university in Palestine during a time of political strife and upheaval. She describes the joys of life in Palestine against the backdrop of military occupation and the second intifada, which began soon after she arrived in 2000. Rather than give political analysis, the book... Read more

Monday, August 12, 2024 - 1:00pm
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Vijay Prashad
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Each year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) releases its World Migration Report.  In 2000, it wrote that “it is estimated that there are more migrants in the world than ever before.” Between 1985 and 1990, the IOM calculated, that the rate... Read more