Is the latest recession proof that it’s time to rethink the privatization of banking? In an interview with Regina Meredith originally webcast on October 16, 2012, reformer Ellen Brown explains why states need to take back control of our troubled monetary system. Ellen Hodgson Brown is an American lawyer and author who since 2008 has become a well-known monetary reformer, mostly because of her book The Web of Debt. She has also written several books about alternative medicine.