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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blackstone, BlackRock or a Public Bank? Putting California’s Funds to Work | Ellen Brown

California has more than $700 billion parked in private banks earning minimal interest, private equity funds that contributed to the affordable housing crisis, or shadow banks of the sort that caused ...

Fox in the Hen House: Why Interest Rates Are Rising | Ellen Brown

The Fed is aggressively raising interest rates, although inflation is contained, private debt is already at 150 percent of GDP, and rising variable rates could push borrowers into insolvency. So what ...

The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet | Ellen Brown

April 4, 2018 (Web of Debt) -- Bayer and Monsanto have a long history of collusion to poison the ecosystem for profit. The Trump administration should veto their merger not just to protect competitor ...