From Scarcity to Abundance--Re-imagining Money: Ellen Brown at TEDxNewWallStreet

Speaker Bio:
Ellen Brown is author of Web of Debt, and serves as president of the Public Banking Institute.

Description of Talk:
As a journalist, Ellen's passion for research led her to ask a simple question about where our money and banking come from: Why do we repeat the cycle of privatizing bank profits in the good times, and publicly owning their losses in the bad times? Ellen's answer may surprise you: Throughout history, publicly-owned banks have coined money far cheaper than relying on governments to indebt themselves to private banks through a central bank like the Federal Reserve. Ellen challenges the inevitability and safety of a money system dominated solely by privately-owned banks.

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[ijusteve]

Dig deeper .... There Is more ...she Is only scratching surface...

[brumpfschmlog]

Thanks for your great message, Ellen Brown, and your excellent courageous leadership.

You've identified the problem and solution so clearly! As you say, interest is killing us and the way to fix it is to own the bank!

[Scott Baker]

Great succinct video. Makes all the essential points in a series of graphics and logical deductions. See you soon at the PBI conference. - Scott Baker, NY coordinator, PBI

[AngelBLive]

I haven't finished reading Web of Debt which so far is a great book, but Ellen you have to organize your presentation and speeched the same way you outlined that book, that was a very rocky presentation that lost my attention a few times, I'm all for public banking just want to make sure you are taken seriously.

[Calvin Leman]

If you live in Idaho, tell your government to start a Public Bank, like the Bank of Idaho or Lemhi County Bank.