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What Will Happen When Banks Go Bust? Bank Runs, Bail-Ins and Systemic Risk
Photo by Aditya Vyas on Unsplash 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...
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Ellen Brown: The Looming Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Tsunami
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost 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...
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Ellen Brown: Banking Crisis 3.0: Time to Change the Rules of the Game
The monument sign in front of the parking lot of the Silicon Valley Bank headquarters at 3003 West Tasman Drive, Santa Clara, California. Minh Nguyen, CC BY-SA 4.0...
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Ellen Brown: The Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Disaster
View of smoke cloud from train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. thunderlips36, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Ellen Brown / Original to...
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Ellen Brown: How the War on Crypto Triggered a Banking Crisis
Cryptocurrency Wallet for Storing Crypto. CryptoWallet.com Images, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost According to an...
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Ellen Brown: Squeezed by the Shorts: Time to Ban Short Selling?
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters. AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost...
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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 crisis...
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Ellen Brown: The Federal Debt Trap: Issues and Possible Solutions
WAR by Justin via Flickr By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost “Rather than collecting taxes from the wealthy,” wrote the New York Times Editorial Board in a July 7 opinion piece, “the government is...
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Ellen Brown: War By Other Means: Short Selling JPMorgan Chase
“JP Morgan London” by Håkan Dahlström is licensed under CC BY 2.0. By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost When the FDIC put Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank into receivership in March, a...
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Ellen Brown: More Banks to Fail? Not in North Dakota
Counting-room of the Bank of North Dakota, 1920. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost U.S. banks are again in the crosshairs. Standard and Poor’s has downgraded...
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Ellen Brown: Three Presidents Who Made Thanksgiving a National Holiday—And...
The First Thanksgiving Jean Louis Gerome Ferris, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost Three U.S. presidents were instrumental in establishing Thanksgiving as a...
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Ellen Brown: Casino Capitalism and the Derivatives Market: Time for Another...
Photo by Tech Daily on Unsplash 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...
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Ellen Brown: Defusing the Derivatives Time Bomb: Some Proposed Solutions
Photo by Aditya Vyas on Unsplash By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost This is a sequel to a Jan. 15 article titled “Casino Capitalism and the Derivatives Market: Time for Another ‘Lehman Moment’?”,...
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Ellen Brown on the Public Bank That Wasn’t: New Jersey’s Excursion into...
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost In 2017, Phil Murphy, a former Goldman Sachs executive, made the establishment of a public, state-owned bank a centerpiece issue during his run for New Jersey...
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Ellen Brown on Tackling California’s Budget Crisis: Raise Taxes, Cut...
The California State Capitol is home to the government of California. The building houses the bicameral state legislature and the office of the governor (Flickr) By Ellen Brown / Original to...
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Ellen Brown: Why Does the Government Borrow When It Can Print?
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost In the first seven months of Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, net interest (payments minus income) on the federal debt reached $514 billion, exceeding spending on both...
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Ellen Brown: The Supreme Court Takes on the Administrative State
Conservative Supreme Court justices who just reversed a 40-year old ruling. By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost In a highly controversial decision, the Supreme Court on June 28 reversed a 40-year...
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How Unelected Regulators Unleashed the Derivatives Monster – and How It Might...
Capital hill government spending concept (Adobe Stock) By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost “It was not the highly visible acts of Congress but the seemingly mundane and often nontransparent...
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Ellen Brown: The Florida State Sunshine Bank: How a State-Owned Bank Can...
Collage created by ScheerPost featuring Florida’s flag and Jimmy Patronis. By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost Fifteen years have passed since the Occupy Wall Street movement focused attention on...
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Ellen Brown: Our Fragile Infrastructure: Lessons From Hurricane Helene
Buncombe County North Carolina – damage after Hurricane Helene floods. NCDOTcommunications, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Ellen Brown / Original to...
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