by Angela Merkert, Executive Director, AFLEP — With the challenges in the financial system—banks closing, fintech gaining market space, interest rates rising—lending for small businesses is decreasing. One recent business article reported that the U.S. loan approval...
New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio and Mayor Javier Gonzales join Craig Barnes on-air
Barnes spoke with both mayors about income inequality and a subject on the next City Council’s meeting agenda, public...Santa Fe Symposium Speakers Gwendolyn Hallsmith and Dr. Thomas Keidel on the Tim Danahey Show
Tim Danahey set up his portable studio in the Green Room of the Banking On New Mexico Symposium to interview several of the invited speakers at the Symposium. The Symposium, whose principal topic was public banking, was held at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center...Gwendolyn Hallsmith, Executive Director, Public Banking Institute – Interviewed by Craig Barnes
Gwen Hallsmith, Executive Director of the Public Banking Institute, was interviewed this morning (Saturday, September 6, 2014) on Our Times with Craig Barnes. Gwen points out that actions to establish state and local municipal public banks are sweeping the country....Craig Barnes’ Interview of Public Banking Institute Experts
Listen to Craig Barnes interview two experts on public banking, Gwen Hallsmith, Executive Director of the Public Banking Institute, and Mike Krauss, a director of the Public Banking Institute and chairman of the Pennsylvania Project–an organization dedicated to...
Access to Capital in New Mexico is Tightening
The Movement To Stop Dollar Stores From Suffocating Black Communities
By AALLYAH WRIGHT for Capital B News | MAY 17, 2023 — Some say the stores—disproportionately found in low-income, rural, and Black areas—stifle economic growth and job creation and exacerbate food insecurity. For years, the Rev. Donald Perryman wondered why the...
SEED NM 2022 Symposium: Bob Mang on how business guilds can regenerate communities
SEED NM 2022 Symposium: Bob Mang on how business guilds can regenerate communities
Bob Mang, Re-Genesis Inc, Co-Founder (Retired) and AFLEP Board member, talks about rural economic development and how business guilds can regenerate communities.Jan 14, 2022
VIDEO Challenging Misinformation About a NM State Public Bank
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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