The European Stabilization Mechanism, Or How the Goldman Vampire Squid Just Captured Europe

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The European Stabilization Mechanism, Or How the Goldman Vampire Squid Just Captured Europe Ellen Brown http://WebofDebt.com/articles April 18, 2012 The Goldman Sachs coup that failed in America has nearly succeeded in Europe—a permanent, irrevocable, unchallengeable bailout for the banks underwritten by the taxpayers. In September 2008, Henry Paulson, former CEO …

Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wall Street Money Machine

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Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wall Street Money Machine Ellen Brown December 7, 2011 http://WebofDebt.com/articles On November 27, Bloomberg News reported the results of its successful case to force the Federal Reserve to reveal the lending details of its 2008-09 bank bailout. Bloomberg reported that by March 2009, the …

Keeping The State’s Money In The State: An Alternative Solution To The Budget Crisis

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Ellen Brown March 26, 2011 www.webofdebt.com/articles Cut spending, raise taxes, sell off public assets – these are the unsatisfactory solutions being debated across the nation; but the budget crises now being suffered by nearly all the states did not arise from too much spending or too little taxation. They arose …

Restoring Economic Sovereignty: The Push for State-owned Banks

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Ellen Brown February 15, 2011 www.webofdebt.com/articles “It is time to declare economic sovereignty from the multinational banks that are responsible for much of our current economic crisis. Every year we ship over a billion dollars in Oregon taxpayer dollars to out-of-state and multinational banks in the form of deposits, only …

What’s Really Behind QE2?

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More Good Sense from Ellen Brown.  Let’s Hope the US Can Really Focus on Direct Job -Creation  : for a start , to rebuild our infrastructure , invest in our  growing green sectors,  prevent  company subsidies to outsourcing and  curb the money leaving our country through Wall Street’s carry trade.  …