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It´s Our Money with Ellen Brown

Progressive Radio Network

“It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown” provides a unique view behind the curtain of global finance and the monetary system by one of the top experts in the field.

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59:26

It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown - Making Change with...

It´s Our Money with Ellen Brown ·

2023/02/01

Money is one of humanity’s greatest social innovations. It’s been transformed in form and function for thousands of years and our digital age has accelerated that metamorphosis. Banking institutions have also been changing dramatically with shadow banking taking over large swaths of the conventional bank credit marketplace. Our guest, noted author and prominent leader of the Modern Monetary Network Dr. Rohan Grey, talks with Ellen and Walt about his design for digital eCash, the dramatic changes

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59:01

It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown - Alexander Hamilton...

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2023/01/05

America’s deteriorating infrastructure challenges government officials to come up with financing for a numerous critical needs that may well cost over $5 trillion dollars, according to experts. While costly public-private partnerships have been touted as a way forward, they can’t really scale to anywhere near that size. Founding father Alexander Hamilton would appear to have the answer – the American System of self-financing which established America in its earliest years and in its most difficult

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56:42

It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown - Dedicated to the...

It´s Our Money with Ellen Brown ·

2022/05/26

Hazel Henderson was a futurist. She understood that what is really important in an economic system isn’t measurable in dollars, but rather in the health and well-being of those living in the economy, including that primary partner, Planet Earth. On today’s program we revisit our last conversation with Hazel from 2020 -- a tribute to an authentic, bold thinker who raised the consciousness of markets worldwide with the simple notion that our economic systems must operate with values that prioritize

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56:53

It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown - Reviving the...

It´s Our Money with Ellen Brown ·

2022/05/03

America’s early financial innovations led a remarkable flowering in world history of expanding economic prospect, at least until the late 20th century. Since then, financial elites and banking cartels have shifted the emphasis from investing for public benefit to private profiteering through monetary manipulations and resource exploitation. In his latest book “Who We Are,” our guest, historian and author Anton Chaitkin, observes that America’s positive economic dynamism has morphed into a form of

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58:18

ItsOurMoney with Ellen brown ”The Bank of Good”

It´s Our Money with Ellen Brown ·

2022/04/18

The Bank of North Dakota (BND) has set the US standard for how a public bankcan serve the economic interests of a state or local economy, and many local governments want to emulate its success. This podcast opens with a recent clip of Eric Hardmeyer, CEO of the BND for over 20 years, describing the founding and operational principles that led the bank to outperform even the big Wall Street banks for profitability while taking an aggressive approach to fiscal problem solving. Ellen then speaks with

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57:58

It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown - A Philadelphia Story

It´s Our Money with Ellen Brown ·

2022/03/23

Another historic milestone in the emergence of public banks around the country has been reached in Philadelphia with an overwhelming vote of the City Council to establish a Municipal Public Financial Authority. We talk with two of the citizens that helped realize this success, Vanessa Lowe and Conni Bille. And later in the program Ellen talks with author Michael Mechanic about his new book “Jackpot: How the Super Rich Really Live and How Their Wealth Harms Us All.”

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58:33

It‘s Our Money with Ellen Brown - Michael Hudson on...

It´s Our Money with Ellen Brown ·

2022/02/21

Celebrated economist Michael Hudson thinks that the world of academic economics is both deceptive and essentially wrong in its formulations of the role of money and debt. Hudson says today’s oligarchic monetary systems invariably reinforce the flow of profits from labor to the top of the economic ladder. The result is unsustainable debt, which he says is an historical pattern that goes back a couple thousand years. Something has to give. Ellen and Michael spend the hour discussing what that might

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58:18

It‘s Our Money with Ellen Brown - Inflation and the Fed

It´s Our Money with Ellen Brown ·

2022/02/07

Inflation is the latest economic lament over whether the national economy is in good shape or in trouble. The topic is frequently oversimplified into monetary categories of either too much money in circulation or too few goods, with the Fed trying to resolve inflation with too few, and wrong, tools. Our guest is the renowned economist Dr. Robert Hockett, who says that the Fed needs substantive revisions which mirror its earliest days in order to balance the demand (monetary) side of the

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58:57

It‘s Our Money with Ellen Brown - Credit Clearing...

It´s Our Money with Ellen Brown ·

2021/12/30

“The magic of compound interest” – interest on interest on borrowed principal – is a primary way monetary wealth grows, but it is at the expense of real economic growth. What if our money system were built on local exchanges directly between producer and consumer? Our guest Thomas Greco, a global voice for community currency systems and credit clearing exchanges, discusses how these systems sidestep the monetary debt trap and open the door to new socio-economic prospects. Later in the program Ellen

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58:37

It‘s Our Money - The Clash of Two Americas

It´s Our Money with Ellen Brown ·

2021/12/20

The Clash of Two Americas Matt Ehret’s new book “The Clash of Two Americas – The Unfinished Symphony” provides an extraordinary tour of the historical landscape that created our economic and political history. A consummate historian and student of the issues that lead to the creation of the political and economic tenets and systems we’ve inherited. Ellen talks with Matt about how those principles and vested interests animated the American Revolution and the international intrigue that accompanied

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51:58

It‘s Money with Ellen Brown - The Privatization of...

It´s Our Money with Ellen Brown ·

2021/12/03

For decades, the importance of public sector institutions has been undermined by powerful private corporate interests. How they have done it and how that process can be reversed is discussed by our guest Donald Cohen, the author of a new book called The Privatization of Everything – How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back. Cohen is Executive Director of In the Public Interest, a national non-profit focusing on public goods and services. Ellen also discusses

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58:18

It‘s Our Money with Ellen Brown - Everyone Deserves...

It´s Our Money with Ellen Brown ·

2021/11/05

Across the globe, public banks hold assets of about $50 trillion dollars in widely divergent countries and cultures. While these publicly owned institutions have diverse types of organization and purpose, they share core principles of retaining local equities. In North America new efforts to create local public banks have emerged among First Nation tribes who have been obliged to use Wall Street banks for their substantial casino revenues. Our guest interviews today include a memorial tribute

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58:42

It‘s Our Money with Ellen Brown -- Philanthropy --...

It´s Our Money with Ellen Brown ·

2021/10/14

The trillion-dollar philanthropy industry has been accused of continuing a racist, colonialist system of economic and cultural suppression. That notion is in dramatic contrast to a broadly favorable appreciation for the largess of wealthy donors who contribute significant sums to thousands of public interest organizations and causes. What lies underneath that patina of generosity? Our guest Edgar Villanueva writes in his latest book “Decolonizing Wealth” that philanthropy is a vestige of a

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59:49

It‘s Our Money with Ellen Brown - The OCC

It´s Our Money with Ellen Brown ·

2021/10/04

The OCC That acronym is not well known by many Americans even though it represents one of the most critical functions of our federal monetary system. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the OCC, is the manager of our system of "national banks" which comprise two-thirds of the banks in the country managing assets of about $14 trillion dollars. As an independent bureau of the Treasury department, it oversees an industry that at times seems to go its own way with risky bank behaviors

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58:31

It‘s Our Money - We’re Still Fighting the American...

It´s Our Money with Ellen Brown ·

2021/09/21

We’re Still Fighting the American Revolution Our guest is Matthew Ehret, author of the new book The Clash of the Two Americas Volume 1: The Unfinished Symphony. In it he shows how the young United States, guided by Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and their successors, established a new financial model based on democratic sovereignty. But proponents of the old British model of colonial exploitation disrupted and continue to disrupt that visionary paradigm shift. Ehret points to the

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58:55

It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown - PPP’s and You

It´s Our Money with Ellen Brown ·

2021/09/08

When costly projects like infrastructure stare down government budgets, taxpayers and politicians understandably get nervous. If federal financial support doesn’t take the lead, states and municipalities must come up with large amounts of money on their own usually through bonds and raised taxes. Another approach widely touted is “public-private-partnerships” – a financial collaboration that shares responsibilities and outcomes between private investors and public resources. Sometimes it works

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58:55

It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown - Constructing the...

It´s Our Money with Ellen Brown ·

2021/08/20

Constructing the Democratic Public Bank As the movement to create publicly owned banks across America picks up speed, new questions arise about how to make them truly focused on serving public interests. Our guest Michael Brennan, a Research Fellow at the Democracy Collaborative and Board Director at the Public Banking Institute, says public banks can be either “good” or they can be “bad”. The difference depends on how these new institutions are designed and constructed. Brennan has articulated

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58:07

It's Our Money with Ellen Brown - Hamilton vs. Wall...

It´s Our Money with Ellen Brown ·

2021/07/15

How did America’s financial system, founded to be a democratic tool of economic development, wind up instead a tool of oligarchic control? Alexander Hamilton intended that America’s financial system would enable individual initiative and collective well-being through a system of sovereign money and credit, independent of the British financiers who wanted to recapture their lost colony as an economic vassal of the mother country. Our guest Nancy Spannaus, professor and author of Hamilton vs. Wall

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58:50

It's Our Money with Ellen Brown - The Fed, Native...

It´s Our Money with Ellen Brown ·

2021/06/17

As America’s central bank, the Federal Reserve is the hub of our banking world and connects institutional monetary participants and systems to its critical functions and resources. Access to this network is not guaranteed for those wanting to start a new bank, and the process is arduous. But when five Native American nations began exploring the possibility of creating their own bank to keep their money under tribal control, they were surprised to find active Fed support for their pursuit. Our guest

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57:33

It’s Our Money With Ellen Brown - Big Corp Moves In

It´s Our Money with Ellen Brown ·

2021/06/11

Big Corp Moves In As money systems diversify through new digital systems at all levels of governments internationally, some large corporations are capturing mega-markets through exclusive payment systems. Primarily in developing countries at this point, these corporations have created systems similar to Visa and Mastercard which can take exclusive, competition-free control of national payment processing. This dystopic prospect of corporations being able to turn on and turn off transactional

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