by Michelle Mosser | Nov 23, 2019 | News, Economics, Monetary Policy, Public Banking
Canary Wharf financial district. Photo by Ronnie Day, Flickr (CC BY 2.0) By Grace Blakeley, NewStatesmanAmerica / October 28, 2019 Faced with the threat of a new recession, climate breakdown and the rise of the far right, the transformative is starting to look...
by Michelle Mosser | Nov 12, 2019 | News, California, Commercial Banking, Economics, National, Public Banking
The move shifts power away from profit-motivated board members of corporate banks and into the hands of the people. By Aaron Fernando, The Progressive / Oct. 24, 2019 When you pay state and local taxes, parking fees and other payments to your regional...
by Anthony Colombo | Jul 19, 2019 | News, Commercial Banking, Economics, National, Public Bank, Public Banking
(above) Members of the San Francisco Public Bank Coalition rally at San Francisco City Hall to demand the creation of a public bank. photo by: Kurtis Wu It may not come as a surprise to hear that the majority of Americans don’t trust the banking system in this...
by Anthony Colombo | Jul 19, 2019 | News, Economics, Environment, Public Banking
The current banking system in the U.S. doesn’t meet the equity or environmental aims of the Green New Deal. But the push to establish government-run banks that do is gaining momentum as an alternative. For the latter half of 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux and...
by Anthony Colombo | Jul 19, 2019 | News, Economics, Monetary Policy
Article originally appeared on June 25, 2019 photo: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (Mike Deeroski / Flickr)(CC BY 2.0) Payments can happen cheaply and easily without banks or credit card companies, as has already been demonstrated—not in the United States but in...
by Anthony Colombo | Jul 17, 2019 | News, Economics, National, Public Banking
Photo: Bank of America in Los Angeles, California. By Ricardo Diaz, Flickr (CC BY 2.0) A coalition of bank activists in ten California cities is pushing for public banks. A bill to support them is working its way through the state legislature. “We planted a...