Finance
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Was the Fed Just Nationalized? | Ellen Brown
Did Congress just nationalize the Fed? No. But the door to that result has been cracked open Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt April 3, 2020 Mainstream politicians have long insisted that Medicare for all, ...
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How to Pay for It All: An Option the Candidates Missed | Ellen Brown
July 10, 2019 (EllenBrown.com) -- The Democratic Party has clearly swung to the progressive left, with candidates in the first round of presidential debates coming up with one program after another t ...
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Libra: Facebook’s Audacious Bid for Global Monetary Control | Ellen Brown
June 27, 2019 (EllenBrown.com) -- Payments can happen cheaply and easily without banks or credit card companies. This has now been demonstrated -- not in the United States but in China. Unlike in the ...
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Universal Basic Income: A Thoroughly Wrongheaded Idea | Milton Ezrati
(Editor's note: I selected this story to provide some perspective to Ellen Brown's more recent story: "A Universal Basic Income Is Essential and Will Work." I don't claim to have any big answers, how ...
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Tesla without Musk at the wheel? It's what the SEC now wants | Tom Krisher And Alexandra Olson
Elon Musk at the 2015 Tesla Motors Annual Meeting. Credit: Steve Jurvetson, Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Sept. 28, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Tesla without Elon Musk at the wheel? To many of the electric car maker's c ...
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An economic model to help policymakers understand willingness to deal with climate change efforts | Bob Yirka
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Sept. 27, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Two economists -- one with the London School of Economics and Political Science, the other with Princeton University -- have created a model to ...
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Money (Always) Talks... | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Sept. 24, 2018 ...And we suckers walk! Anyone who even occasionally checks current events knows how much money is spent on presidential elec ...
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Overheard at the Fat Cats Club | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Sept. 16, 2018 Being a "fly on the wall" is not such a bad thing... unless of course you get swatted. Listen to what this fly overheard at t ...
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U.S. consumer spending, inflation data point to strong economy | Lucia Mutikani
Aug. 30, 2018 -- WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. consumer spending increased solidly in July, suggesting strong economic growth early in the third quarter, while a measure of underlying inflation hit th ...
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The Two 500 lb. Gorillas in the Room | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Aug. 3, 2018 I don't know about you out there, but whenever I drive around my city and surrounding area of perhaps 250,000 people, I notice ...
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A Public Bank for Los Angeles? City Council Puts It to the Voters | Ellen Brown
California legislators exploring the public bank option may be breaking not just from Wall Street but from the Federal Reserve. July 4, 2018 (EllenBrown.com) -- Voters in Los Angeles will be the firs ...
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