interest rate very low then finally ellen brown. as countries around the world lose or sovereignty over bad debts of private banks what do you think about france's announcement that they are to establish a public bank by the end of this year what is a public bank how does it help and this is really what you've been talking about for a number of years talk a little bit about france's decision to introduce a public bank yeah this is a public development bank do you take that public banks at the low end yes well banks like in germany that have. find it all these export businesses that quit germany number one exploiter until recently and then they're at the federal level take public banks and those are the development banks i think probably the best way in brazil where the b.n.p. yes it's their biggest bank and this it was used by president elect to find every extraordinary development program they came along looking for finding people in the one nine hundred ninety s. brazil was the world's largest debtor and ten years later they were

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