by Anthony Colombo | Dec 9, 2015 | National, News, Public Banking
Published in Bucks County Courier Times December 9, 2015 By Mike Krauss Across the United States, states and municipal governments struggle to provide essential public services, such as schools, public safety, courts and prisons, public health, transportation...
by Anthony Colombo | Jul 26, 2015 | Commercial Banking, Local Economies, National, News
MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Santa Cruz County, California, recently figured out a way to hold big banks who engage in illegal and destructive behavior accountable: Don’t do business with them. According to AllGov California, the Santa Cruz...
by Anthony Colombo | Jul 10, 2015 | Monetary Policy, National, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Posted on July 3, 2015 by Ellen Brown Pope Francis’ revolutionary encyclical addresses not just climate change but the banking crisis. Interestingly, the solution to that crisis may have been modeled in the Middle Ages by Franciscan monks following the Saint from whom...
by Anthony Colombo | Apr 21, 2016 | National, News, Public Banking
Fed’s Kashkari Calls for Radical Approach to Megabanks “I believe the biggest banks are still ‘too big to fail’ and continue to pose a significant, ongoing risk to our economy,” said Neel Kashkari, newly appointed president of the...
by Anthony Colombo | Jan 28, 2016 | National, News, Public Banking
By Pamela Powers Hannley / ARIZONIANS for a NEW ECONOMY January 28, 2016 In recent weeks, the City of Santa Fe released its public banking feasibility study which showed the city could save millions if it created a local public bank and the City of Philadelphia’s City...