by Anthony Colombo | Aug 4, 2016 | Local Economies, Monetary Policy, National, News, Print Media
He met with Twin Cities activists on Wednesday. Community organizer Wintana Melekin was grabbing a soda in late June at a coffee shop near her office when she heard Neel Kashkari, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, had just been in. Seeing her...
by Anthony Colombo | Jul 15, 2016 | Local Economies, Monetary Policy, National, News, Print Media
Winona Nava, president and CEO of Santa Fe-based Guadalupe Credit Union, says that proposed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rules should help protect against payday lenders who charge 300 to 500 percent annual interest rates for short-term loans, instead of less...
by Anthony Colombo | Jun 23, 2015 | Commercial Banking, Local Economies, Monetary Policy, News, Public Banking
Posted on June 11, 2015 by Ellen Brown It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. ...
by Anthony Colombo | Mar 21, 2015 | Local Economies, Monetary Policy, News, Public Bank
By Matt Stannard February 19, 2015 You’ll read a lot about activism in this story, but most of it won’t sound terribly sexy or radical. There will be no black masks, no broken barricades or cops bashing skulls. Instead, what you’ll read about is hard work, lots of...
by Anthony Colombo | Jul 24, 2014 | Commercial Banking, Monetary Policy, Public Banking, Videos, Videos National & PBI Videos
From time-to-time we will post items that we are calling Money and Banking 101. These come from various sources around the world. This is the first in that series. The three videos presented here come from the Public Banking Institute and the Pennsylvania Public Bank...
by Anthony Colombo | Jul 23, 2014 | Commercial Banking, Monetary Policy, Public Banking, Videos, Videos National & PBI Videos
From time-to-time we will post items that we are calling Money and Banking 101. These come from various sources around the world. This is the first in that series. The three videos presented here come from the Public Banking Institute and the Pennsylvania Public Bank...