by Michelle Mosser | Apr 17, 2020 | Economics, National, News, Small Business
Photo: Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union, by Oscar Perry Abello By Oscar Perry Abello, Next City | Apr 16, 2020 Applications officially opened on April 3 for the new Paycheck Protection Program loans guaranteed by the Small Business...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 13, 2020 | Economics, National, News
Photo by Queven from Pixabay By Henry M. Paulson Jr., The Washington Post | Apr 10, 2020 Henry M. Paulson Jr. is a former U.S. treasury secretary, chairman of the Paulson Institute and co-chairman of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group. The pandemic crisis...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 10, 2020 | Economics, Local Economies, National, News
Photo by Corey Taratuta By April Simpson, The Day | Apr 10, 2020 Every part of the country will feel the economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis. But the small and isolated rural areas that lagged during the economic boom may fare better, relatively...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 6, 2020 | Economics, National, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo by Katie Moum on Unsplash By Ellen Brown, The Web of Debt Blog | Apr 3, 2020 Did Congress just nationalize the Fed? No. But the door to that result has been cracked open. Mainstream politicians have long insisted that Medicare for all, a universal basic income,...
by Michelle Mosser | Mar 23, 2020 | Economics, National, News
COVID-19 test. Photo by The Focal Project, Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) By Mariana Mazzucato, The Guardian | Mar 18, 2020 Government has the upper hand for the first time in a generation. It must seize the moment. The world is in a critical state. The Covid-19...
by Michelle Mosser | Feb 23, 2020 | California, National, News, Public Banking
Photo by Etienne Martin By Alexander Kolokotronis, The Trouble. | Jan 18, 2020 Public banks do not serve to increase the supply of money and capital. They aim to restructure capital at its very core. Imagine walking through your future home—a city-owned...