Episodes
![It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown - Alexander Hamilton and a New American Infrastructure Bank](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/667520/Its-Our-Money-Album-Art_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
America’s deteriorating infrastructure challenges government officials to come up with financing for a numerous critical needs that may well cost over $5 trillion dollars, according to experts. While costly public-private partnerships have been touted as a way forward, they can’t really scale to anywhere near that size. Founding father Alexander Hamilton would appear to have the answer – the American System of self-financing which established America in its earliest years and in its most difficult years of growth and challenge. Ellen, Prof. Robert Hockett and members of a coalition backing Congressional bill HR3339, examine why Hamilton’s genius financing idea is a perfect model for a proposed National Infrastructure Bank – capable of fixing all of America’s needs without raising the national debt or taxes!