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 | Jan 29, 2020 | Commercial Banking, National, New Jersey, News, Public Banking
By Alan Kline, Laura Alix, Kevin Wack, Andy Peters, Dean Anason, Jon Prior, Penny Crosman, AMERICAN BANKER | Jan 12, 2020 In banking circles, the biggest story of 2019 was unquestionably the blockbuster merger between longtime rivals BB&T and SunTrust...
by Michelle Mosser | Jan 3, 2020 | California, Local Economies, National, New Mexico, News, Public Banking
By Evan Weinberger, Bloomberg Law / Jan 2, 2020 A California law has energized public banking advocates around the country New York and other states are moving ahead with legislation and studies aimed at creating public banks A California law allowing municipalities...
by Michelle Mosser | Jan 3, 2020 | Local Economies, National, New Jersey, News, Public Banking
photo courtesy of Bank of North Dakota Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy wants New Jersey to become the second state with a public bank in the United States By Mike Catalini, Associated Press / Dec 20, 2019 TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy...
by Michelle Mosser | Dec 3, 2019 | New Jersey, News, Public Banking
Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy. By Phil Murphy – Phil Murphy for Governor (CC BY 2.0) By Mike Catalini, Associated Press / Nov 13, 2019 NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey would become the second state with a publicly run bank — after North Dakota and its...