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Cold Case File: Who Shot Down a 70-Year-Old Attack on Social Security?

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard (RJ) Eskow

How did we reach such a state of confusion about the solvency of Social Security? Actuaries deal in probabilities and statistics. What were the odds we'd be so confused in 2010?

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State Controller Warns IOUs Could Be Issued In 2 Weeks

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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State Controller John Chiang said California was only "two to four weeks" away from issuing IOUs for the second consecutive year as the state budget i...

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Cash In: Millions In California IOU's Set To Expire

AP | JESSE McKINLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California officials are at a loss to explain why $50 million worth of IOUs issued during last year's fiscal crisis have no...

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How California Could Turn Its IOUs into Dollars

Ellen Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ellen Brown

If the state were to deposit its money in its own state-owned bank, it could have enough credit to solve its budget crisis with funds to spare.

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Towards a Solution to the Debt Crisis in California: The State Could Walk Away and Create Its Own Credit Machine

Ellen Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ellen Brown

California could put its revenues in its own state-owned bank and fan these "reserves" into many times their face value in loans, using the same "fractional reserve" system that private banks use.

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California Dreamin': How the State Can Beat Its Budget Woes

Ellen Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ellen Brown

The world's eighth largest economy is not going quietly into that pit of debt and devastation that has devoured Third World countries whole.

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California Budget Squabbling: Schwarzenegger 'Broke' The Budget, He 'Should Fix It'

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California's controller will start paying many of the state's bills with IOUs as soon as Thursday after lawmakers failed to clos...

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California Misses Deadline, May Now Have To Issue IOUs

AP | JUDY LIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — States from coast to coast began a new fiscal year Wednesday with no budget plans and with cash quickly running out, sendin...

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