Episodes
Thursday Apr 22, 2021
It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown - The Wealth Hoarders
Thursday Apr 22, 2021
Thursday Apr 22, 2021
Would you trade considerable inherited wealth to address the expansive systemic inequities generated by our financial system? Our guest Chuck Collins did just that and has written a book on how dynasties of private wealth have secreted trillions of dollars in offshore assets by obscuring accounts and creating other types of subterfuge that are served by an extensive and exclusive professional category Collins calls “the wealth defense industry.” His new book The Wealth Hoarders raises deep questions about the impact of extreme wealth on our economy and democracy.
Thursday Apr 08, 2021
It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown - Banking on People
Thursday Apr 08, 2021
Thursday Apr 08, 2021
Public banks of one form or another are emerging like Spring flowers. Across the USA a score of new public interest banking initiatives aim to fill service and credit voids that private finance won’t or can’t provide. Today we discuss three emerging applications of public bank principles: serving the substantial number of un-and underbanked people in California through the proposed new BankCAL program, creating a multi-trillion-dollar public infrastructure bank for the US, and clear evidence that public banks have excelled over private banks in responding to the global pandemic crisis. Our guests are Trinity Tran of the CA Public Bank Alliance, Alphecca Muttardy of the National Infrastructure Bank Coalition, and Thomas Marois, a leading expert on public banks globally.