North Dakota's State-Owned Bank a Viable Alternative Model to For-profit Banking System

Interview with Ellen Brown, president of the Public Banking Institute, conducted by Scott Harris

Growing public support for the Occupy Wall Street protest movement speaks to the long-simmering anger and frustration with the failures of the current economic system and the lack of accountability for the bankers and financiers whose reckless behavior plunged the U.S. and world economy into the Great Recession. In the U.S., recent polls find majority support for the protesters’ central message condemning corporate greed and the corrupt political system rigged in favor of the interests of America’s wealthiest 1 percent.

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