The editors of The Daily Bell are pleased to present this exclusive interview conducted by Scott Smith with Web of Debt author Ellen Brown.
Introduction: Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and “the money trust.” She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Brown developed an interest in the developing world and its problems while living abroad for eleven years in Kenya, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
She returned to practicing law when she was asked to join the legal team of a popular Tijuana healer with an innovative cancer therapy, who was targeted by the chemotherapy industry in the 1990s.
That experience produced her book Forbidden Medicine, which traces the suppression of natural health treatments to the same corrupting influences that have captured the money system. Brown’s eleven books include the bestselling Nature’s Pharmacy, co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker, which has sold 285,000 copies.
Daily Bell: Nice to meet you.
Brown: My pleasure!
Daily Bell: Can you tell us your book’s thesis in a nutshell?
Brown: Our money is an illusion. Except for coins, which compose only one ten-thousandth of the money supply, all of our money today consists of debt to private banks.
Banks always take back more money in principal and interest than they put into the money supply as principal, making the system basically a pyramid scheme.
After 300 years, this scheme has spread around the world and has now reached its mathematical limits.
The whole world has been captured in the debt trap of a private international banking monopoly.
