“It’s the ‘Productive’ Economy, Stupid” - National Infrastructure Bank Zoom Town Hall July 22, 2022
Channel: Coalition for a National Infrastructure Bank
Date: 2022-07-24

For more information: https://nibcoalition.com

Public Banking Chair Ellen Brown, Cornell University Professor of Law and Finance Robert Hockett, and New Mexico State Senator William Tallman were joined by other economists and elected officials for an urgent Town Hall on July 22, 2022 “It’s the ‘Productive’ Economy, Stupid” 

The video begins and ends with a powerful speech of President John F. Kennedy in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, celebrating the 30-year anniversary of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), May 18, 1963.

The discussion attacked monetary manipulation and how it will not save the economy., but will only make matters worse. Only a dramatic return to real physical production can build the nation out of the crisis, similar to what FDR demonstrated during the Great Depression with the miracle of the Tennessee Valley Authority project.

This forum highlighted the role of the National Infrastructure Bank in addressing the crisis and the need to create a National Reconstruction and Development Council in the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt’s WWII War Production Board.

Watch this highly provocative and educational forum To paraphrase James Carville, “It’s the Productive Economy, Stupid”.  
Speakers:
Congressman Thomas Suozzi, (D-NY-3)(video)
Alphecca Muttardy, former Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund, Fairfax, Va
Professor Robert Hockett, Edward Cornell Professor of Law and Finance, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Ellen Brown, JD, Author and Chairman Public Banking Institute, Los Angeles Ca
Hon. Felix Ortiz, former Assistant Speaker, New York Assembly, Albany, NY
Senator William Tallman, New Mexico State Senate, Albuquerque, NM
Bobby Knost, Business Manager, Ironworkers Local 808, Orlando, Fl
Walt McRee, Chair Emeritus, Public Banking Institute, Bucks Co., Pa 
Moderator---Julie Olsen, Small business owner, and Chair Progressive Caucus, Alaska Democratic Party, Anchorage, Ak