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Feds To States: "Drop Dead." State Bank Movement Picks Up Steam

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In a futile attempt to "balance the budget" in a shrinking economy, we have been pressured into a self-destructive economic model in which the only alternatives are said to be to slash services, raise taxes, and sell off public assets.   These are not our only alternatives.   What destroyed our local economies was not excess government spending but was a credit crisis on Wall Street.   We can restore the prosperity we lost by restoring credit in the state; and we can do that by taking our deposits out of Wall Street banks and putting them in our own state-owned bank, to be leveraged into credit for local purposes.   For more information, see here

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Ellen Brown is an attorney, founder of the Public Banking Institute, and author of twelve books including the best-selling WEB OF DEBT. In THE PUBLIC BANK SOLUTION, her latest book, she explores successful public banking models historically and (more...)
 

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