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  • Winner Takes All: The Super-priority Status of Derivatives

    Apr 09, 2013

    by Ellen Brown Cyprus-style confiscation of depositor funds has been called the “new normal.”  Bail-in policies are appearing in multiple countries directing failing TBTF banks to convert the fun...

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  • The Long Con

    Feb 15, 2013

    by Rudy Avizius  Not long ago, an idea circulated in Washington that the government could issue a $1 Trillion coin and use that to fund its operations in the absence of an agreement on the raising o...

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  • Ecological Economics

    Feb 15, 2013

    by Joshua Farley  The resource crises we currently face are orders of magnitude more serious than the Great Depression, as they threaten not only the economic system but also human survival. Unfortun...

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  • Beyond the Limits to Growth

    Nov 27, 2012

    by Richard Heinberg In 1972, the now-classic book Limits to Growth explored the consequences for Earth’s ecosystems of exponential growth in population, industrialization, pollution, food production...

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  • What’s Responsible Advertising Look Like?

    May 29, 2012

    by Elisa Bonora Billboards and commercial messages dominate the public space like never before. But is a movement taking shape to reverse this trend? In This Space Available, filmmaker Gwenaëlle Gob...

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  • Andy Bichlbaum

    May 28, 2012

    Interview by Laura Gottesdiener A press-release reveals a new website apparently from Bank of America, YourBofA.com, followed by another, seemingly hastily-written response imploring readers to ignor...

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  • Money: Story & Magic

    May 28, 2012

    Excerpt from Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein As the economic meltdown proceeds to its next phase, we begin to see the unreality of much we thought real. The verities of two generations become ...

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  • Cooperative Banking: The Exciting New Wave of The Future

    May 25, 2012

                      By ELLEN BROWN As our political system sputters, a wave of innovative thinking and bold experimentation is quietly sweeping away outmode...

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  • The Story of Broke

    Mar 29, 2012

    Why There’s Still Plenty of Money To Build a Better Future by Annie Leonard  These last few years, I’ve had to get a lot more careful about how I spend my paycheck. Everyone has. Like I’m e...

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  • We Are Competitive

    Mar 29, 2012

    by Michael H. Shuman Economic localization offers the key to solving a growing number of global problems, including peak oil, climate disruption, and the financial meltdowns. Yet the perception remain...

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