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 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...
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 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 | 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...