Ellen Brown
In a landmark infrastructure bill passed in December, Congress finally penetrated the Fed's "independence" by tapping its reserves and bank dividends for infrastructure funding
While the mainstream media focus on ISIS extremists, a threat that has gone virtually unreported is that your life savings could be wiped out in a massive derivatives collapse. Bank bail-ins have begun in Europe, and the infrastructure is in place in the US
Global developments in finance and geopolitics are prompting a rethinking of the structure of banking and of the nature of money itself
In uncertain times, "cash is king," but central bankers are systematically moving to eliminate that option. Is it really about stimulating the economy? Or is there some deeper, darker threat afoot?
The debt ceiling is an unconstitutional gimmick that violates the 14th amendment
The Dodd-Frank regulations are so lethal to community banks that some say the intent was to force them to sell out to the megabanks
Predictions are that we will soon be seeing the "nuclear option" - central bank-created money injected directly into the real economy
British MP Jeremy Corbyn has proposed a "People's QE" that has critics crying hyperinflation and supporters saying it's about time
The government can reduce the debt by buying it - and ripping it up
In the modern global banking system, all banks need a credit line with the central bank in order to be part of the payments system