by Anthony Colombo | Jul 19, 2019 | News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Public Banking Institute; July 4, 2019 On July 3, California’s Public Banking Act, AB 857, passed the Senate Governance & Finance Committee 4 Aye’s to 3 No’s. In the extended hearing, Assemblymember David Chiu, the bill’s co-author, emphasized, “Something...
by Anthony Colombo | Jul 19, 2019 | News, Economics, Monetary Policy
Article originally appeared on June 25, 2019 photo: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (Mike Deeroski / Flickr)(CC BY 2.0) Payments can happen cheaply and easily without banks or credit card companies, as has already been demonstrated—not in the United States but in...
by Anthony Colombo | Jul 17, 2019 | News, Economics, National, Public Banking
Photo: Bank of America in Los Angeles, California. By Ricardo Diaz, Flickr (CC BY 2.0) A coalition of bank activists in ten California cities is pushing for public banks. A bill to support them is working its way through the state legislature. “We planted a...
by Anthony Colombo | Jul 17, 2019 | Uncategorized, News
By Jill Cowan, California Today; reprint New York Times, June 11, 2019 When a ballot measure that would’ve allowed Los Angeles to start its own public bank was rejected by the city’s voters last year, even proponents of the idea acknowledged that it was a little far...
by Anthony Colombo | May 20, 2019 | Uncategorized, National, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Truthout.org; Ellen Brown/The Web of Debt Blog “If you invest your tuppence wisely in the bank, safe and sound, Soon that tuppence safely invested in the bank will compound, And you’ll achieve that sense of conquest as your affluence expands In the hands of the...
by Anthony Colombo | May 20, 2019 | National, Commercial Banking, News, Public Bank, Public Banking, Uncategorized
A network of public banks including a central bank operated as a public utility could similarly fund a U.S. Green New Deal – without raising taxes, driving up the federal debt, or inflating prices. Nation of Change; Ellen Brown / OpEd As alarm bells sound over...