by Michelle Mosser | May 4, 2020 | News, COVID-19, Economics, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo: Downtown Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Ken Lund, Flickr) By Michael Brennan, The Washington Post | April 29, 2020 Michael Brennan is chair of the Public Banks Project of the Democracy Policy Network and is part of an interstate coalition of policy...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 30, 2020 | News, Bank of North Dakota, COVID-19, Economics, National, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo: The nation’s only state-owned bank serves as a model for how the U.S. is fighting the economic damage of the pandemic. (Photo by Kaya / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By Oscar Perry Abello, Next City | Apr 29, 2020 Bankers generally don’t like surprises. But as CEO at...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 30, 2020 | News, Commercial Banking, COVID-19, Economics, National
Image by Credit Commerce from Pixabay By Nizan Geslevich Packin, Forbes | Apr 25, 2020 In the current environment of medical and economic uncertainty, we all find ourselves desperately seeking safety and stability. In such times of uncertainty, cash is...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 29, 2020 | News, California, COVID-19, Local Economies, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo: Debbie Notkin by JCF By Debbie Notikin, Post News Group| Apr 22, 2020 The COVID-19 crisis is shining a bright and unforgiving light on the glaring economic and racial inequalities we live with every day. Public banking is a major step toward a more just and...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 27, 2020 | News, COVID-19, Local Economies, New Mexico, New Mexico News
Photo: Small businesses on Albuquerque’s Central Avenue. Photo by Ken Lund. By Pilar Martinez, Albuquerque Journal | April 27, 2020 Weekends. Nights. Eighteen-hour work days. These, believe it or not, have become the new “bankers’ hours” amid...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 24, 2020 | News, COVID-19, Economics, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo: First lady Eleanor Roosevelt talking in June 1936 with the superintendent of a waterfront park project in Des Moines, Iowa, sponsored by the Works Progress Administration. Courtesy FDR Presidential Library & Museum. By Timothy Knowles and Ameya Pawar,...