Ellen Brown is an economist and attorney in Los Angeles and the founding Chairperson of the Public Banking Institute – a non profit economic venture to develop viable, sustainable solutions to America’s banking crises by promoting people-owned state and community banks. In 2015 she ran as the Green Party candidate for California State’s Treasurer. Ellen has written extensively about the private financial cartels and the Federal Reserve. She is the author of the best-seller "Web of Debt" and her last book, “The Public Bank Solution: From Austerity to Prosperity”, introduces a safe soluble public banking alternative to the credit-based system of the current big banks. Her articles frequently appear on websites such as Scheer Post, Consortium News, and Global Research.  She is the host of the radio program “Its Our Money”, heard every Wednesday at 3 pm Eastern time here on the Progressive Radio Network, and her websites are EllenBrown.com and PublicBankingInstitute.org