{"id":124468,"date":"2014-06-10T16:39:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T16:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ellenbrown.com\/2014\/06\/10\/its-our-money-with-ellen-brown-where-they-hid-our-civic-treasure-and-how-we-can-get-our-hands-on-it\/"},"modified":"2014-06-10T16:39:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T16:39:20","slug":"its-our-money-with-ellen-brown-where-they-hid-our-civic-treasure-and-how-we-can-get-our-hands-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/its-our-money-with-ellen-brown-where-they-hid-our-civic-treasure-and-how-we-can-get-our-hands-on-it\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Our Money with Ellen Brown \u2014 Where They Hid Our Civic Treasure and How We Can Get Our Hands On It"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Our Money with Ellen Brown \u2014 Where They Hid Our Civic Treasure and How We Can Get Our Hands On It <\/a><\/p>\n

One of the best kept deceptions within common civic parlance is that our cities, states and communities are \u201cbroke\u201d \u2014 a meme perpetuated by a lack of public knowledge about what governments do with their money and a highly profitable investment industry that uses those funds for substantial private profits that suck outrageous sums out of our common wealth.<\/p>\n

This week\u00a0It\u2019s Our Money with Ellen Brown<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>provides a look into where our\u00a0\u201cburied\u201d\u00a0civic treasure can be found and how we can use it to create substantial public benefit. Ellen shows how private financing of civic projects has created repeated windfalls for banks and investors, and\u00a0she\u00a0later talks with Professor Tom Greco about how communities can create credit-based economies to get free of the\u00a0all-encompassing\u00a0web of\u00a0civic\u00a0debt.<\/p>\n

On the Public Banking Report, co-host Walt McRee discusses the location and contents of every community\u2019s \u201ctreasure chest\u201d with Scott Baker, an expert at evaluating how to determine how much is in it and how it can be used to dramatically change local economic prospects.<\/p>\n

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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 <\/a><\/p>\n

One of the best kept deceptions within common civic parlance is that our cities, states and communities are “broke” – a meme perpetuated by a lack of public knowledge about what governments do with their money and a highly profitable investment industry that uses those funds for substantial private profits that suck outrageous sums out of our common wealth.<\/p>\n

This week It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>provides a look into where our “buried” civic treasure can be found and how we can use it to create substantial public benefit. Ellen shows how private financing of civic projects has created repeated windfalls for banks and investors, and she later talks with Professor Tom Greco about how communities can create credit-based economies to get free of the all-encompassing web of civic debt.<\/p>\n

On the Public Banking Report, co-host Walt McRee discusses the location and contents of every community’s “treasure chest” with Scott Baker, an expert at evaluating how to determine how much is in it and how it can be used to dramatically change local economic prospects.<\/p>\n

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