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The Public Bank Solution: From Austerity to Prosperity Paperback – Illustrated, June 11, 2013

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WHAT WALL STREET DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW. Shock waves from one Wall Street scandal after another have completely disillusioned us with our banking system; yet we cannot do without banks. Nearly all money today is simply bank credit. Economies run on it, and it is created when banks make loans. The main flaw in the current model is that private profiteers have acquired control of the credit spigots. They can cut off the flow, direct it to their cronies, and manipulate it for personal gain at the expense of the producing economy. The benefits of bank credit can be maintained while eliminating these flaws, through a system of banks operated as public utilities, serving the public interest and returning their profits to the public. This book looks at the public bank alternative, and shows with examples from around the world and through history that it works admirably well, providing the key to sustained high performance for the economy and well-being for the people.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Third Millennium Press; Illustrated edition (June 11, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 486 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0983330867
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0983330868
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.42 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.98 x 9 inches

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Norvell Maples

Well worth the Read...

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2016

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This was a very eye opening book for me... I highly recommend it to any and every American who has ever wondered how ever got to this big financial mess we find our selves in... The material is well researched and well written... (that's a some what uncommon thing when it comes to subject of economics... everyone seems to think just writing an 'opinion piece' is worth the reading... this is not the case in this book... Ms. Brown has done a very excellent job putting this all together and has mountains of other information for one to research one's self to back up or deny what she has written here...
Anyway... this is a book worth reading wither you agree with the idea behind it or not...
the history alone contained in it's pages about the Banking industry wither private or Public or somewhere in between is worth the read...

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S. L. P.

Divorce Wall Street - Demand Public Banks!

Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2016

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Should be required reading to understand just how far we have come off the rails in our American banking history. Did you know there used to be a savings bank in every U.S. Post Office in the U.S.? Wall Street managed to get rid of them. The working poor used them to save up money. Also did you know there were State Banks in all the States in the U.S.? The only one left now is the State Bank of North Dakota established in 1916, and they give 4% mortgage loans to homeowners, and 2% loans to farmers. This book is critical to understanding the new Public Banks movement we need to be apart of today.

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Harmony N. Understanding

An Enlightening Read !

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2016

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A wonderful book that should be read by anyone concerned with the national debt or "entitlements" as being an economic priority. Ellen Brown demonstrates convincingly the viability of a public bank option both with historical precedent and by explaining how a public bank can save states and countries the money they would normally give to private bankers. Once more, the public banks would have the stated objective of working for -----THE PUBLIC and not to maximize profits for bankers and bank stockholders at the expense of taxpayers as our current private banking system does. Highly recommended for anyone that would like to "draw back the curtain" on the current system of extortion propagated by the private bankers.

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Stanley Kaveckis

HOW MONEY IS REALLHY CR3ATED!

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2019

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AMAZING BOOK! TELLS HOW THE BANKING SYSTEM IS SETUP TODAY AND HOW THE STATES AND THE PEOPLE FROM THOSE STATES COULD BENEFIT. TODAY ALL THE BENEFITS GO TO THE EXISTING WEALTHY INDIVIDUALS IN BANKING. GIVES AND INDIVIDUAL AN UNDERSTANDING HOW THE MONEY SUPPLY IS REALLY CREATED! — IT IS SCARY HOW MUCH THE BANKING/LOAN SYSTEM SCAPES OFF EVERY TRANSACTION, MAKING IT THE FASTEST GROW BUSINESS INCOME OVER MFG. IN THE US.

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R. A. Barricklow(Scaramouche)

Free Yourselves From Bankster Occupied Territories

Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2013

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If one wants truly wants to know what is going on in the world today, than an understanding of money, is essential. As Ellen Brown explains in Section II(Public Banking Throgh History: 3,000 B.C. To 1913 A. D.); two rival monetary systems have competed for thousands of years - one based on shared abundace characterized by the matrifocal societies of antiquity - and the other based on scarcity, debt, and private self-interest characterized by the warlike patriarhal societies.
The author's simple to understand writing will unravel even the complexies of derivatives for readers. All the reader need to do is open the pages and the world will begin to come into sharper & sharper economic & political focus. Blown away will be all those smoke & mirrors, that the charlatans & policians use to pull-the-rug-out from underneath the naive public. Read Ellen Brown's book and become solidly rooted in your understanding of today's financial criminals(Banksters like Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Moody's, etc., etc.).
I cannot begin to sway the reader enough to pick this book up and let those inexplicable puzzle pieces of your world-view - ...fall into place. I assure they will. For the author has been germinating these solutions for sometme now, and has gifted her work to those, who not ony want to know; but, ...Need to know.
The Bansters; or as Max Keiser knows them - the financial terrorists, are putting the Big Squeeze on the public worldwide. Time's slipping ever-away, through an hourglass of opportunity - to turn the tide in favor a 100% of humanity; instead of the current 1%, at the expense of us all.

P.S. Google: Max Keiser Report. Check out his & Stacy's 26 minute wickedly sharp video news commentaries.
(3 weekly/they are archived))
P.P.S. See also: Treasure Islands by Nicholas Shaxson

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PCB

Putting money in its place

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 22, 2015

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This book takes the feeling that many have that there is something wrong with our financial system and attempts to explain historically and technically why and what we can do about it. Banks create money as book entries and charge interest on it. They are money making machines protected by a powerful regulatory superstructure which controls governments and demands austerity when profit is threatened. There are many examples of how government has done better by issuing and controlling its own currency – the BRIC countries, the reconstruction finance corporation in the US after 1932, Germany before the second world war, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Local public banks like the Bank of North Dakota and the German Landesbanken also show how money can be directed to social ends and still earn a profit for the state as self-liquidating loans. Public banking is not a socialist way of giving inefficient politicians the chance to cause inflation. It is a different world view and I hope this book will increase support for it

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James Skinner

This book follows on from the Web of Debt by ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 29, 2015

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This book follows on from the Web of Debt by recounting the historical record of public banking and its enormous successes in bringing prosperity to the wider community rather than just to elite private interests in control of the economy. It reveals the hugely important role that public as opposed to private banks have played in the US as well as in Brazil, Australia, China etc. The Bank of North Dakota, for example, provides an inspiring example of what can be achieved when a bank is dedicated to the general welfare rather than just to short term maximisation of profit at minimal risk. Together with Web of Debt this book shows how different the economic rules are when Government or the community, not the private sector, controls the creation of money. This shows how nonsensical is the present preoccupation of Governments with wanting to "balance the books", "reduce the deficit" and impose austerity regimes when they have the unused power to control the creation of new money. Where money has been used for the public benefit in mobilising all available economic resources everyone has benefited. Every politician needs to be given a course in monetary history by Ellen Brown. That course is available in these two books.

George Talbot

An impressive report on banking! But should banks support unsound economies?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 21, 2015

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I have been interested in banking since 1981 when I noticed that inflation in Britain was falling although £M3 had grown strongly: Government had claimed that ending its growth would end inflation! But I learned at lot from this large book I found easy to read. As the back cover claims, The Public Bank Solution advocates public banking with examples from around the world and throughout history and it strongly criticises conventional banking. It also describes many other financial systems. And it has a comprehensive glossary, ps. 15.

But I challenge Ellen Brown’s belief that shortfalls in demand in our economies must be made good by credit. When it is, public banks may well be better than current ones, and I am surprised she doesn’t extol North Dakota more as it has had a public bank for many decades, but I have long advocated an alternative response.

Change the economic system to eliminate the shortfall in demand! Societies have achieved this by paying workers enough to buy their production, by limiting savings to that required for new investments and by balancing current accounts. This was achieved in the US when Puritans ran its great engine companies The Puritan Gift: Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos and in Western Europe after the Second World War.

Societies so organised do not need bank credit and for decades after the War it was strictly limited. Then societies can ensure they have the amount of interest free money that best supports economic activity without unduly inflating prices. This would be more acceptable to Islam that forbids usury and seeks to share the costs of failure when savings are invested.

Brown supposes public banks will remit interest on credit to themselves or their societies or create credit free of interest. And she describes how disagreements about interest rates have affected the financial systems adopted. But I am surprised she doesn’t mention the 1745 Papal encyclical Vix Pervenit that in section 7 warns of ruin if usury is adopted in Italy!

And she objects to deposits being ‘bailed in’ that is used to pay creditors when a bank fails. This is intended to end the moral hazard that occurs when individuals benefit from the high returns of risky investments knowing society will prevent losses with expensive bail outs.

In the foreword, Hazel Henderson hopes for a green economy. I add that a positive return on capital impedes sustainability by discounting the future. I didn’t notice mention of this in the book.

Regula Stöcki

Fantastic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 1, 2014

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Ellen's books allow anyone to understand the economic crisis, even without an economics background. Ellen has the solution to the current and reoccurring financial crisis, which started with the illegal creation of the Federal Reserve Bank exactly 100 years ago. The Fed is responsible for most of our worlds problems. Public banking, as practised with success by the BRICS, is the solution to the Federal private banking created crisis, world hunger, armaments spending and oppression and wars. All theses events enrich the amoral 1% who have declared war against us all. Her books should be on every school and university curriculum.

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I. P. Cheneour

The Public Bank Solution: From Austerity to Prosperity

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 3, 2013

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Ellen Brown's 2nd book Public Bank Solution strives and succeeds in giving us more financial literacy and goes on to suggest real solutions to our curent insane system of debt slavery. From opening up the story of the Wizard of Oz (ounce) to our present obsession with gambling with our means of exchange she shows how cruel this system is. This is not the only system we could employ...we need a system that is fair equitable and just for everyone and this book goes a long way towards that possibility if adopted! I recommed this book highly.

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