by Leila Salim | Dec 24, 2021 | News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Cash Loans, which is located at 8314 S. Kedzie Ave. in the Ashburn neighborhood, offers high-interest loans to consumers. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times By CST Editorial Board / Chicago Sun-Times | December 5, 2021 Bringing affordable banking services, including...
by Leila Salim | Dec 24, 2021 | News, Public Bank, Public Banking
By Susannah Abbeys / bernalillodems.org | December 4, 2021 Q&A with Sarah Manning: Sarah Manning is a coordinator of outreach and public partnerships for the Alliance for Local Economic Prosperity (AFLEP), a nonprofit organization that educates and...
by Anthony Colombo | Dec 3, 2021 | National, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Original Article from Public Banking Institute. The proposed National Infrastructure Bank (NIB) now before Congress as HR 3339 is modeled after the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), which was instrumental in pulling the U.S. out of the Great Depression in the...
by Leila Salim | Nov 20, 2021 | News, Public Bank, Public Banking
By Sabrina Minhas / The Regulatory Review | November 17, 2021 Scholar argues that policymakers should reexamine usury laws and introduce public banking to combat payday lending. How can regulators make capitalism more moral? In a recent article, Mehrsa...
by Anthony Colombo | Nov 12, 2021 | News, Public Bank, Public Banking
(Photo by @SANTIAGOAD53 / TWITTER) By Pamela Haines / TRUTHOUT | November 6, 2021 The potential for public banking — or managing taxpayer funds through publicly-controlled financial institutions rather than private banks — first became real to me in the office of my...
by Anthony Colombo | Nov 8, 2021 | News, Public Bank, Public Banking
(Photo by Terrapin Flyer / CC BY-SA 2.0) By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost | November 4, 2021 Just in time for the UN’s policy push for “30 x 30” – 30% of the earth to be “conserved” by 2030 – a new Wall Street asset class puts up for sale the processes...