Building a green economy
A scarecrow stands in front of turbines on a wind farm in Lovington in 2012. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal.) By Kevin Robinson-Avila, Albuquerque Journal | January 12, 2020 Funding renewable infrastructure with a NM State Bank would keep NM revenue working...
Albuquerque’s Quest to Buy Local Everything
James, an employee of Diverse Office Supply, packs Primo crayons. Diverse Office Supply landed a $5 million contract to supply the City of Albuquerque with office supplies in 2019, a contract that was responsible for Diverse Office Supply riding out COVID-19 (so far)....
New Mexico needs a public bank
Graphic by Shutterstock By Doug Lynam, Santa Fe New Mexican | January 5, 2020 New Mexico is No. 1. In payday lenders per capita, that is. According to a study by California State University, Northridge, we have almost 10 times more payday lenders than we do...
2020 Was the Year of Demystifying Money for Cities
Photo by Jorge Salvador on Unsplash By Oscar Perry Abello, Next City | December 29, 2020 Money. Where is it? Where does it come from? Who is working on ways to get more of it to where cities need it most? When I look back at 2020, I see these are the questions...
Tackling the Infrastructure and Unemployment Crises: The “American System” Solution
Photo courtesy Pixabay.com By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Blog | December 18, 2020 A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the “American System” of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help solve not one but two of...Upcoming Events
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Join NM Healthy Soil Working Group for this Special Edition to learn about policy proposals for the 2021 legislative session, aiming to scale up soil health and regenerative agriculture in New Mexico.
California’s New Public Banking Option Opens Door for Real Community Investment
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Economy & Labor
Oct 22, 2019
Janine Jackson interviews Public Bank LA’s Trinity Tran about public banking for the October 11, 2019, episode of “CounterSpin.”
Ellen Brown’s
2019 Book
Today most of our money is created, not by governments, but by banks when they make loans. This book takes the reader step by step through the sausage factory of modern money creation, explores improvements made possible by advances in digital technology, and proposes upgrades that could transform our outmoded nineteenth century system into one that is democratic, sustainable, and serves the needs of the twenty-first century.
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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