by Anthony Colombo | Aug 4, 2016 | Local Economies, Monetary Policy, National, News, Print Media
He met with Twin Cities activists on Wednesday. Community organizer Wintana Melekin was grabbing a soda in late June at a coffee shop near her office when she heard Neel Kashkari, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, had just been in. Seeing her...
by Anthony Colombo | Aug 1, 2016 | National, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Maine should have a state-owned bank; it’s working well enough for North Dakota. APPLETON — If you’ve ever written a check to the Maine State Treasurer’s Office, you may be surprised to learn that it was deposited in a privately owned bank. In the state treasurer’s...
by Anthony Colombo | Jul 18, 2016 | Commercial Banking, National, News, Public Banking
Since the financial crisis, Federal Reserve officials have tried to communicate their policies to a wider constituency. With Neel Kashkari, the boundaries are being tested. “.@Six1FourCapital 4 me it’s a q of r we hitting dual mandate? Is there still labor slack? R we...
by Anthony Colombo | Jul 15, 2016 | Local Economies, Monetary Policy, National, News, Print Media
Winona Nava, president and CEO of Santa Fe-based Guadalupe Credit Union, says that proposed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rules should help protect against payday lenders who charge 300 to 500 percent annual interest rates for short-term loans, instead of less...
by Anthony Colombo | May 20, 2016 | National, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Ten Questions (and Then Some) for Minneapolis Fed’s Neel Kashkari By John Heltman | May 19, 2016 | American Banker “I shut down my campaign account. If I had any intention of running for office again, there’d be a little nugget of cash that … I could...
by Anthony Colombo | May 12, 2016 | National, News, Public Banking
Scott Deshefy: Public banking can help solve budget crises By Scott Deshefy | The Bulletin 225 In 1935, as Mr. Micawber in “David Copperfield,” comedian and Dickens scholar W.C. Fields underscored financial struggle: “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure...