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How Our State and Local Governments Can Save More Than $160 Billion a Year by Cutting Interest Payments to Investors
Image by Eric Perlin from Pixabay By Saqib Bhatti and Brittany Alston, Action Center on Race & the Economy | September 4, 2020 As the nation adjusts to the new reality of life in a pandemic, it has become clearer than ever before that a robust social safety...
Why Are Two Community Banks from Across the Country Merging?
Photo by Oscar Perry Abello By Oscar Perry Abello, Next City | September 15, 2020 When two banks merge, it’s often bad news for at least one of those bank’s communities. They could be merging because one of the two banks has failed, and regulators from the...
Public Banking in NM: A Critical Tool for a Just Economic Recovery
Image courtesy occupy.com By Paul Gibson, Retake Our Democracy | June 13 2020 Like the gas & oil industry, the banking industry was teetering on the verge of collapse well before COVID-19. Many feel a recession worse than 2008 lies ahead. A public bank could...
Small Banks Save Small Businesses, So Why Aren’t There More Small Banks?
Photo by Phil Trease / CC BY-NC 2.0 By Oscar Perry Abello, Next City| May 12, 2020 To bolster the local economy and support small businesses, we need institutions that support small banks. Local economy advocate Stacy Mitchell saw reports about how the...
Small Businesses Were at a Breaking Point. Small Banks Came to the Rescue.
Photo: Beaver’s Cafe in Minto, ND. (By Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald) By Peter Rudegeair, Orla McCaffrey and Liz Hoffman, The Washington Post | May 4, 2020 Where big banks are favoring certain customers for PPP loans and delaying loan-taking processes...
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Episode: Everyone deserves a public bank
Join those who’ve endorsed a Public Bank for New Mexico
“I had the good fortune to work on this initiative before Bernie kidnapped all my time. This is one of those no-brainer initiatives that only the 1% could oppose. It has the potential to save the state millions of dollars by vastly reducing the cost of its bonds to improve infrastructure funding. in a public bank, our state funds can be used to build our local economy and our local infrastructure.”
– Paul Gibson
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