by Michelle Mosser | Dec 29, 2020 | News, COVID-19, National, PPP, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo by Jorge Salvador on Unsplash By Oscar Perry Abello, Next City | December 29, 2020 Money. Where is it? Where does it come from? Who is working on ways to get more of it to where cities need it most? When I look back at 2020, I see these are the questions...
by Michelle Mosser | Dec 18, 2020 | News, Economics, National, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo courtesy Pixabay.com By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Blog | December 18, 2020 A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the “American System” of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help solve not one but two of...
by Michelle Mosser | Dec 14, 2020 | News, Bank of North Dakota, COVID-19, National, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo courtesy Bank of North Dakota By AM1100 The Flag | December 12, 2020 Bank of North Dakota (BND) released its final COVID-relief program numbers and amounts for the four programs it administered to stimulate economic recovery. The Bank utilized its network...
by Michelle Mosser | Dec 9, 2020 | News, Economics, National, Public Bank, Public Banking
Three promising new bills are before Congress that would facilitate the establishment of a public banking system in the US. (Kurtis Garbutt / CC BY 2.0) By Ellen Brown, Common Dreams | December 3, 2020 On November 20, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin...
by Michelle Mosser | Dec 9, 2020 | News, National, Public Bank, Public Banking
Chicago’s skyline as seen from the Leonard M. Louie Fieldhouse in Chinatown.Pat Nabong/Sun-Times By Daniel La Spata, Matt Martin, Robert Peters and Ameya Pawar, Chicago Sun-Times | December 7, 2020 Arresting poverty, inequality and the racial wealth gap...
by Michelle Mosser | Oct 19, 2020 | News, National, Public Bank, Public Banking
Graphic courtesy Public Banking Institute By Frank Sanitate, Santa Barbara News-Press | October 18, 2020 Both community wealth and private wealth are important. But private wealth has a significant advantage which communities are not taking advantage of now....