by Anthony Colombo | Oct 14, 2017 | Public Bank, Economics, Local Economies, National, News, Public Banking
Dispatches from the Urban Resistance: Alameda to Elyria and beyond. By Jimmy Tobias | SEPTEMBER 29, 2017 | The Nation The progressive left is at its best when it combines visionary politics with pragmatic action, when it makes people’s lives better in a...
by Anthony Colombo | Oct 14, 2017 | Local Economies, Environment, National, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
By Ali Tadayon | East Bay Times | October 6, 2017 OAKLAND — Advocates for a public bank in Oakland are looking to Germany for inspiration, as that country’s public banks fund a large portion of the renewable energydevelopment. During a community forum hosted Sept. 25...
by Anthony Colombo | Aug 31, 2017 | Commercial Banking, National, News
By Samantha Masunaga and James Rufus Koren | Los Angeles Times | August 31, 2017 Wells Fargo & Co. said Thursday it may have created as many as 3.5 million checking, savings and credit card accounts without customers’ authorization over the last eight years — a...
by Anthony Colombo | Aug 31, 2017 | Commercial Banking, Local Economies, National, News, Public Bank, Santa Fe
By Tripp Stelnicki|The New Mexican|August 31, 2017 City councilors on Wednesday approved a four-year contract extension with Wells Fargo as the city’s fiscal agent. Councilors, both for and against the measure, expressed trepidation over the extension through 2021,...
by Anthony Colombo | Aug 31, 2017 | Monetary Policy, National, News
By Mike Krauss | Intelligencer Watching the broadcast media reporting on the catastrophe in Texas, I heard the team on Fox News wonder aloud what the evacuees would do and where to turn to find shelter and safety? Many left their homes with little more than the...
by Anthony Colombo | Aug 25, 2017 | News, Local Economies, Monetary Policy, National, Santa Fe
By Mark Oswald | Albuquerque Journal North SANTA FE, N.M. — The Santa Fe City Council, as a customer looking for the best deal, is now faced with something similar to the rancorous debate that took place when a new Super Walmart opened about a decade ago. Santa Feans,...