Saturday, May 26, 2012

Ellen Brown on Cooperative Banking


Cooperative Banking, the Exciting Wave of the FutureBy Ellen Brown, AlterNet 26 May 12

[excerpt] "Move "Our" Money: The Public Bank Movement

The Move Your Money campaign has been wildly successful in mobilizing people and raising awareness of the issues, but it has not made much of a dent in the reserves of Wall Street banks, which already had $1.6 trillion sitting in reserve accounts as a result of the Fed’s second round of quantitative easing in 2010. What might make a louder statement would be for local governments to divest their funds from Wall Street, and some local governments are now doing this. Local governments collectively have well over a trillion dollars deposited in Wall Street banks.

A major problem with the divestment process is finding local banks large enough to take the deposits. One proposed solution is for states, counties and cities to establish their own banks, capitalized with their own rainy day funds and funded with their own revenues as a deposit base....


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http://www.alternet.org/story/155454/cooperative_banking,_the_exciting_wave_of_the_future

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