{"id":6781,"date":"2011-07-20T11:10:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T16:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=6781"},"modified":"2011-07-20T11:13:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T16:13:41","slug":"six-ways-to-liberate-america-from-wall-street-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/07\/20\/six-ways-to-liberate-america-from-wall-street-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Ways to Liberate America From Wall Street Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Article about the report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/how-liberate-america\/1311104394\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Six Ways to Liberate America From Wall Street Rule<\/strong><\/a> that are posted in the article are theo following:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"external-link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/pdf\/liberateamericadownload.pdf\"><strong><em>How to Liberate America from Wall Street Rule&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/a>spells out details of a six-part policy agenda to rebuild a sensible system of community-based and accountable financial services institutions.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Break up the mega-banks and implement tax and regulatory policies that favor&nbsp;<a class=\"internal-link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/issues\/the-new-economy\/new-economy-new-ways-to-do-finance\" title=\"New Economy, New Ways to Do     Finance\">community financial institutions<\/a>, with a preference for those organized as cooperatives or as for-profits owned by nonprofit foundations.<\/li>\n<li>Establish&nbsp;<a class=\"internal-link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/new-economy\/a-choice-for-states-banks-not-budget-crises\" title=\" Banks, Not Budget Crises\">state-owned partnership banks<\/a>&nbsp;in each of the 50 states, patterned after the&nbsp;<a class=\"internal-link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/blogs\/fixing-the-future\/north-dakota-banking-on-the-locals\" title=\" Banking on the Locals\">Bank of North Dakota<\/a>. These would serve as depositories for state financial assets to use in partnership with community financial institutions to fund local farms and businesses.<\/li>\n<li>Restructure the Federal Reserve to function under strict standards of transparency and public scrutiny, with General Accounting Office audits and Congressional oversight.<\/li>\n<li>Direct all new money created by the Federal Reserve to a Federal Recovery and Reconstruction Bank rather than the current practice of directing it as a subsidy to Wall Street banks. The FRRB would have a mandate to fund essential green infrastructure projects as designated by Congress.<\/li>\n<li>Rewrite international trade and investment rules to support national ownership,&nbsp;<a class=\"internal-link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/new-economy\/a-new-deal-for-local-economies\" title=\"A New Deal for Local Economies\">economic self-reliance<\/a>, and economic self-determination.<\/li>\n<li>Implement appropriate regulatory and fiscal measures to secure the integrity of financial markets and the money\/banking system.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Six Ways to Liberate America From Wall Street Rule that are posted in the article are theo following: How to Liberate America from Wall Street Rule&nbsp;spells out details of a six-part policy agenda to rebuild a sensible system of community-based and accountable financial services institutions. Break up the mega-banks and implement tax and regulatory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6781"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6785,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781\/revisions\/6785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}