Money is one of humanity’s greatest social innovations. It’s been transformed in form and function for thousands of years and our digital age has accelerated that metamorphosis. Banking i...
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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....
Hazel Henderson was a futurist. She understood that what is really important in an economic system isn’t measurable in dollars, but rather in the health and well-being of those living in the ...
America’s early financial innovations led a remarkable flowering in world history of expanding economic prospect, at least until the late 20th century. Since then, financial elites and banki...
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The Bank of North Dakota (BND) has set the US standard for how a public bank can serve the economic interests of a state or local economy, and many local governments want to emulate its success. ...
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Another historic milestone in the emergence of public banks around the country has been reached in Philadelphia with an overwhelming vote of the City Council to establish a Municipal Public Finan...
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Celebrated economist Michael Hudson thinks that the world of academic economics is both deceptive and essentially wrong in its formulations of the role of money and debt. Hudson says today’s ...
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Inflation is the latest economic lament over whether the national economy is in good shape or in trouble. The topic is frequently oversimplified into monetary categories of either too much money ...
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“The magic of compound interest” – interest on interest on borrowed principal – is a primary way monetary wealth grows, but it is at the expense of real economic growth. What if our money...
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The Clash of Two Americas Matt Ehret’s new book “The Clash of Two Americas – The Unfinished Symphony” provides an extraordinary tour of the historical landscape that created our ec...
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For decades, the importance of public sector institutions has been undermined by powerful private corporate interests. How they have done it and how that process can be reversed is discussed by o...
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Across the globe, public banks hold assets of about $50 trillion dollars in widely divergent countries and cultures. While these publicly owned institutions have diverse types of organization a...
The trillion-dollar philanthropy industry has been accused of continuing a racist, colonialist system of economic and cultural suppression. That notion is in dramatic contrast to a broadly favora...
The OCC That acronym is not well known by many Americans even though it represents one of the most critical functions of our federal monetary system. The Office of the Comptroller of the...
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We’re Still Fighting the American Revolution Our guest is Matthew Ehret, author of the new book The Clash of the Two Americas Volume 1: The Unfinished Symphony . In it he shows how the...
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When costly projects like infrastructure stare down government budgets, taxpayers and politicians understandably get nervous. If federal financial support doesn’t take the lead, states and mu...
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Constructing the Democratic Public Bank As the movement to create publicly owned banks across America picks up speed, new questions arise about how to make them truly focused on serving publi...
How did America’s financial system, founded to be a democratic tool of economic development, wind up instead a tool of oligarchic control? Alexander Hamilton intended that America’s financi...
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As America’s central bank, the Federal Reserve is the hub of our banking world and connects institutional monetary participants and systems to its critical functions and resources. Access to th...
Big Corp Moves In As money systems diversify through new digital systems at all levels of governments internationally, some large corporations are capturing mega-markets through exclusive ...
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