by Anthony Colombo | Jul 19, 2019 | Economics, Environment, News, 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 19, 2019 | Economics, Monetary Policy, News
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 | Economics, National, News, 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 | News, Uncategorized
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...