by Anthony Colombo | Oct 31, 2017 | National, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt | Oct 30, 2017 Crushing regulations are driving small banks to sell out to the megabanks, a consolidation process that appears to be intentional. Publicly owned banks can help avoid that trend and keep credit flowing in local...
by Anthony Colombo | Oct 21, 2017 | New LTE, News, Public Bank, Public Banking, Santa Fe
Given the often “ungressive” character of its editorial positions, it comes as no surprise that The New Mexican advocates against a public bank for Santa Fe (“City must take care of finances,” Our View, Oct. 13). What is especially unattractive, however, is the...
by Anthony Colombo | Oct 14, 2017 | Public Bank, Economics, Local Economies, National, News, Public Banking
Dispatches from the Urban Resistance: Alameda to Elyria and beyond. By Jimmy Tobias | SEPTEMBER 29, 2017 | The Nation The progressive left is at its best when it combines visionary politics with pragmatic action, when it makes people’s lives better in a...
by Anthony Colombo | Oct 14, 2017 | Local Economies, Environment, National, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
By Ali Tadayon | East Bay Times | October 6, 2017 OAKLAND — Advocates for a public bank in Oakland are looking to Germany for inspiration, as that country’s public banks fund a large portion of the renewable energydevelopment. During a community forum hosted Sept. 25...
by Anthony Colombo | Aug 31, 2017 | Commercial Banking, Local Economies, National, News, Public Bank, Santa Fe
By Tripp Stelnicki|The New Mexican|August 31, 2017 City councilors on Wednesday approved a four-year contract extension with Wells Fargo as the city’s fiscal agent. Councilors, both for and against the measure, expressed trepidation over the extension through 2021,...
by Anthony Colombo | Jul 27, 2017 | Local Economies, National, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Los Angeles should explore whether to create a municipal bank that would finance affordable housing and throw its doors open to the cannabis industry, City CouncilPresident Herb Wesson said Tuesday. Wesson tossed out the idea as part of a sweeping speech that set out...