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Ellen Brown
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Ellen Brown writes WEB OF DEBT BLOG, a personal blog at ellenbrown.com about economics and politics. Since 2014, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Bankers want your savings as part of their next bail-out”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link her blog for writing on public and postal banking, sovereign debt, and trade deals such as the TPP. Commenters cite her posts as sources, without explicit praise or criticism.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /2013/09/23/what-we-could-do-with-a-postal-savings-bank-infrastructure-that-doesnt-cost-taxpayers-a-dime/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-05-26
- Bankers want your savings as part of their next bail-out2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-04
What Hacker News says?
> If it wasn't useful, people wouldn't be paying for the services it provides, they're all optional. Honestly, in my opinion this could not be a more misinformed take on the reality of banking. Today there exist no alternatives to commercial money (private bank debt), because our governments' demand taxes in it. Finance and banking are also different, yet you seem to use the words interchangeably. Banking = creation…
Comment linking /what-are-public-banks-and-how-do-they-operate-an-introduction/
on “Small business rescue earned banks $10B in fees”Submitted Bankers want your savings as part of their next bail-out as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThere are many calls for public banking by people such as Ellen Brown [1], as well organizations such as the MetaCurrency Project [2] and Positive Money [3]. [1] https://ellenbrown.com/what-are-public-banks-and-how-do-they... [2] http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/05/14/id-53 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzCegQVljdY
Comment linking /what-are-public-banks-and-how-do-they-operate-an-introduction/
on “Small business rescue earned banks $10B in fees”Submitted How to Pay for It All: An Option the Candidates Missed as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere are various advocates for allowing the USPS to return to the banking business. They would put the exploitative check cashing stores out of business. Ellen Brown's has written a copy pieces advocating for postal banking. What We Could Do with a Postal Savings Bank: Infrastructure that Doesn’t Cost Taxpayers a Dime - https://ellenbrown.com/2013/09/23/what-we-could-do-with-a-po... (2013) This piece concludes by s…
Comment linking /2013/09/23/what-we-could-do-with-a-postal-savings-bank-infrastructure-that-doesnt-cost-taxpayers-a-dime/
on “The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Service [pdf]”It seems that the TPP, TTIP and TiSA are not about the sort of “free trade” that would free local businesses to sell abroad. They are about freeing international corporations from the government regulation necessary to protect the economy, the people, and the environment. They are about preserving privatized monopolies and preventing competition from the public sector. And they are about moving litigation offshore i…
Comment linking /2015/04/24/the-trans-pacific-partnership-and-the-death-of-the-republic/
on “Leaked: What's in TPP’s intellectual property chapter”Hopefully this works out well (the P.O. could use the income) and puts an end to the careers of the check-cashing sharks. This piece from 2013 [ https://ellenbrown.com/2013/09/23/what-we-could-do-with-a-po... ] showed up on HN just over a year ago. [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23911696 ] Edit: quote from Brown: "Postal banking systems are also ubiquitous in other countries, where their long record of safe…
Comment linking /2013/09/23/what-we-could-do-with-a-postal-savings-bank-infrastructure-that-doesnt-cost-taxpayers-a-dime/
on “USPS Begins Postal Banking Pilot Program”Ellen Brown has written about public banks in general, and BND specifically. https://ellenbrown.com/
Comment linking /
on “Bank of North Dakota”> And here is where Japan is unique - they have managed to adjust to the debt servicing, Japan has recently been using its bank to capture more of the interest payments on its debt: "Japan has found a way to write off nearly half its national debt without creating inflation. We could do that too." Sovereign Debt Jubilee, Japanese-Style - https://ellenbrown.com/2017/06/27/sovereign-debt-jubilee-jap...
Comment linking /2017/06/27/sovereign-debt-jubilee-japanese-style/
on “Japan's population is falling faster than ever before”wow. how disappointing. and her justification is??? don't the powers-that-be realize the unintended conseqences of their actions. that we're in a period of transition (for real) and if elected politicians continue to accommodate corporations that have a vested interest in shackling and turning the "internet" into an appliance, they will expedite the adoption of p2p and decentralized technologies. the very same techn…
Comment linking /2014/12/01/new-rules-cyprus-style-bail-ins-to-hit-deposits-and-pensions/
on “Angela Merkel argues against net neutrality, calls for special access fast lane”Ellen Brown's article, "What We Could Do with a Postal Savings Bank: Infrastructure that Doesn’t Cost Taxpayers a Dime" [1], advocates for allowing the post office to expand its banking services. I send postal money orders some times - these can be cashed at any post office. [1] https://ellenbrown.com/2013/09/23/what-we-could-do-with-a-po...
Comment linking /2013/09/23/what-we-could-do-with-a-postal-savings-bank-infrastructure-that-doesnt-cost-taxpayers-a-dime/
on “Going Anti-Postal (2012)”