THE SUBPRIME TRUMP CARD: STANDING UP TO THE BANKS

Ellen Brown, Articles, June 26th, 2008

More than 1.5 million homeowners are expected to enter foreclosure this year, and about half of them are expected to have their homes repossessed.  If the dire consequences Jefferson warned of 200 years ago have been slow in coming, it is because they have been concealed by what Jerome a [...]

IS SPECULATION DRIVING UP FOOD AND OIL?

This question is hotly contested. Traders in commodities futures say futures trading cannot drive up the physical price. It is the physical price that ultimately determines the futures price rather than the reverse. But there seems to be more to it than that. A number of good recent articles suggest that speculation is indeed largely responsible [...]

Community Currency Goes Global

This was posted by Robert Taft of Upton, Wyoming on the “Join in the Debate” page, but it adds an interesting ferment to the debate and bears repeating here.  Noting that Ithaca Hours (local community currency) are  expanding as far as China, he suggests that both interest AND gold act as a break on trade, and that neither [...]