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 became interested in the developing world and its problems while living for eleven years in Kenya, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. She returned to practicing law when asked to assist a popular Tijuana healer with an innovative cancer