Parasite #1: The Shadow Banking System

Despite the 828-page Dodd-Frank Act, the derivatives pyramid has continued to explode to a value now estimated to be as high as $2 quadrillion.

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Big Banks Hit with Monster $250 Billion Lawsuit in Housing Crisis

Investors led by BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, and PIMCO, the world’s largest bond-fund manager, have sued some of the world’s largest banks for breach of fiduciary duty.

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Ahead of the Looming Foreclosure Crisis, Local Governments Are Stepping In

The glut of underwater mortgages needs to be written down to match underlying assets, not just to help homeowners but to revive the economy.

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Buying Up the Planet: Out-of-Control Central Banks Are On a Corporate Spending Spree

As a way of compensating for loss of bond income due to record-low interest rates, central banks have become some of the world’s largest stock investors – a rather alarming development.

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IT’S OUR MONEY WITH ELLEN BROWN – WHERE THEY HID OUR CIVIC TREASURE AND HOW WE CAN GET OUR HANDS ON IT

One of the best kept deceptions within common civic parlance is that our cities, states and communities are “broke”

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Why Californians Are Paying Double – In Interest to the Banks

The Bay Bridge retrofit was slated to cost $6.3 billion, but with interest and fees, taxpayers will shell out over $12 billion - indicative of a trend in the Golden State.

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Bringing Bucks to Main Street With a State-Owned Bank of California

The Golden State can lead others down the path of debt peonage and keep paying for Wall Street's blunders – or we can be a model for establishing state economic sovereignty.

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Prosecuting Wall Street: It's Time to Bring the Banks Before a California Jury

Sixteen of the world’s largest banks have been caught colluding to rig global interest rates – so why are we doing business with a corrupt global banking cartel, and isn't it time someone prosecuted them?

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The Global Banking Game Is Rigged – And the FDIC Is Suing

Taxpayers are paying billions of dollars for a swindle pulled off by the world’s biggest banks using a form of derivative called interest-rate swaps – which are now a $426 trillion business.

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Pod Cast: It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown

On this edition of “It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown”, Ellen speaks with leading protagonists helping individual citizens take matters into their own hands

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