by Michelle Mosser | Oct 8, 2019 | News, Commercial Banking, National, Public Banking
The new law promises to take taxpayer money back from Wall Street and reinvest it in communities. By Ananya Garg, Yes! Magazine / Oct 3, 2019 The Standing Rock movement in 2016 brought together Indigenous activists from across the nation to fight against the...
by Michelle Mosser | Oct 4, 2019 | News, National, Public Banking
California Governor Gavin Newsom. By Gage Skidmore, Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Supporters say the change allows for funding infrastructure demands or providing loans to public agencies at low rates By Mario Koran, The Guardian / Oct 4, 2019 Cities and counties...
by Michelle Mosser | Oct 3, 2019 | News, National, Public Banking
By James F. Peltz – Los Angeles Times California cities and counties will be allowed to establish public banks under a controversial bill signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, making California only the second U.S. state to allow such institutions....
by Anthony Colombo | Jul 22, 2019 | News, National, Public Bank
Original image from The Hill. Copyright of Photographer To ensure the long-term environmental health of the planet, we will have to spend. This spending cannot be wasteful, but must embody a pragmatic investment in our future. Estimates predict that we will have to...
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...