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 | Mar 20, 2020 | News, Public Bank, Public Banking, Sparkassen
Photo: Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany. By Flo Karr on Unsplash By AFP and Emer Scully, MAILONLINE. | Mar 13, 2020 German state-owned development bank KfW is offering companies “unlimited” credit to keep Germany’s economy afloat during the ongoing...
by Michelle Mosser | Mar 19, 2020 | Bank of North Dakota, News, Public Banking
Photo: Union State Bank President Christie Obenauer, right, visits the Hazen child care center that her bank and the Bank of North Dakota invested in. Photo by Justine Wiedrich courtesy Yes! Magazine. By Oscar Perry Abello, Yes! Magazine. | Feb 19, 2020 The...
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...
by Michelle Mosser | Feb 23, 2020 | News, Public Banking, Small Business
By Ellen Brown, CounterPunch | Feb 11, 2020 While U.S. advocates and local politicians struggle to get their first public banks chartered, Mexico’s new president has begun construction on 2,700 branches of a government-owned bank to be completed in 2021, when...
by Michelle Mosser | Feb 23, 2020 | Commercial Banking, National, News, The Unbanked
By Jordana Rosenfeld, VICE | January 7, 2020 Lawmakers and activists are proposing a digital payment platform and currency to help millions of New Yorkers without bank accounts. For millions of people in the US, exclusion from the banking system is simply a...