I interviewed Ellen Brown on April 30th. This is part one of a two part interview.
Here's a link to the audio podcast.
Thanks to Don Caldarazzo for doing the transcript.
Also, check out the Public Banking Conference , June 2-4, here.
BIO:
Ellen Brown is an attorney, president of the Public Banking Institute, and author of 11 books. Her websites are
http://WebofDebt.com,
http://EllenBrown.com, and
http://PublicBankingInstitute.org. In her latest book, "Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free," she shows how the power to create money has been usurped from the people and how we can get it back.
Rob Kall: And welcome to the Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio
Show, WNJC 1360 AM out of Washington Township, reaching metro Philly and South
Jersey. My guest tonight is Ellen
Brown. Now, Ellen Brown could be THE world expert on public banking. When I
think of public banking, I think of Ellen Brown.
Ellen Brown: (laughs)
Rob Kall: She has
been writing on this for a long time.
She's got a book out: The Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our
Money System, and How We Can Break Free.
Welcome to the Show!
Ellen Brown: Thanks
Rob! Great to talk to you.
Rob Kall: Really
good to have you here, back again. Now,
a couple things. I want to get some
definitions set up, because you talk about ideas and concepts that are really
important, that touch everybody's lives, but I don't know that everybody really
understands some of the ideas. So let's
start off with derivatives and the Glass-Steagall Act. Could you describe what each of those are?
Ellen Brown: OK.
Well, the Glass-Steagall Act was passed in 1934 and it separated
investment banking from depository banking.
Before that, the banks we commingling their funds; so if they did some
wild investments that went bad, they took those from the depositors'
funds. For many years after Glass-Steagall
was imposed, things went along fine.
Then they repealed Glass-Steagall in 1999 - supposedly to help the
banks, to help them with their market share - because (laughs) they were losing
market share. For this reason, they
changed the law.
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more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)
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