by Michelle Mosser | Feb 23, 2020 | News, Public Banking, Small Business
By Ellen Brown, CounterPunch | Feb 11, 2020 While U.S. advocates and local politicians struggle to get their first public banks chartered, Mexico’s new president has begun construction on 2,700 branches of a government-owned bank to be completed in 2021, when...
by Michelle Mosser | Jan 29, 2020 | News, Commercial Banking, National, New Jersey, Public Banking
By Alan Kline, Laura Alix, Kevin Wack, Andy Peters, Dean Anason, Jon Prior, Penny Crosman, AMERICAN BANKER | Jan 12, 2020 In banking circles, the biggest story of 2019 was unquestionably the blockbuster merger between longtime rivals BB&T and SunTrust...
by Michelle Mosser | Jan 3, 2020 | Public Banking, California, Local Economies, National, New Mexico, News
By Evan Weinberger, Bloomberg Law / Jan 2, 2020 A California law has energized public banking advocates around the country New York and other states are moving ahead with legislation and studies aimed at creating public banks A California law allowing municipalities...
by Michelle Mosser | Jan 3, 2020 | New Jersey, Local Economies, National, News, Public Banking
photo courtesy of Bank of North Dakota Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy wants New Jersey to become the second state with a public bank in the United States By Mike Catalini, Associated Press / Dec 20, 2019 TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy...
by Michelle Mosser | Dec 3, 2019 | News, New Jersey, Public Banking
Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy. By Phil Murphy – Phil Murphy for Governor (CC BY 2.0) By Mike Catalini, Associated Press / Nov 13, 2019 NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey would become the second state with a publicly run bank — after North Dakota and its...
by Michelle Mosser | Dec 3, 2019 | News, Local Economies, New Mexico, Public Banking
By Peter Goodman / KRWG Public Media / Oct 6, 2019 COMMENTARY: Suppose, in 1919, New Mexico, a cattle-raising state being taken advantage of by large cattle-dealers and big eastern banks, had formed its own state bank? In agricultural North Dakota, a populist wave...