by Michelle Mosser | May 14, 2020 | COVID-19, New Mexico, New Mexico News, News, Small Business
Image by 3D Animation Production Company from Pixabay By Stephen Hamway, Albuquerque Journal| May 13, 2020 Community banks in New Mexico have been showing their worth during the COVID-19 pandemic, processing around half of the small business loans despite...
by Michelle Mosser | May 13, 2020 | COVID-19, New Mexico, New Mexico News, News, Small Business
Photo by Cristina Carreon, NM Political Report By Christina Carreon, NM Political Report| May 11, 2020 A public bank could protect New Mexico’s cattle industry from future calamities and halt the current trend of decline by reinvesting NM state tax...
by Michelle Mosser | May 12, 2020 | Commercial Banking, COVID-19, Economics, News, Small Business
Photo by Phil Trease / CC BY-NC 2.0 By Oscar Perry Abello, Next City| May 12, 2020 To bolster the local economy and support small businesses, we need institutions that support small banks. Local economy advocate Stacy Mitchell saw reports about how the...
by Michelle Mosser | May 11, 2020 | COVID-19, News, Postal Banking, Small Business, The Unbanked
Photo by Pictures of Money / CC BY 2.0 By Next City| May 8, 2020 Community banks become heroes of the pandemic as small business loans are approved quickly and without discrimination. Banks with less than $1 billion in assets hold just 6 percent of all the money in...
by Michelle Mosser | May 4, 2020 | COVID-19, Economics, News, Public Bank, Public Banking, Small Business
Photo: Sixth Street, Austin, Texas. (Photo courtesy Institute for Local Self-Reliance) By Stacy Mitchell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance | April 29, 2020 A significantly larger number of federal relief loans are reaching small businesses in states where...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 28, 2020 | Economics, Local Economies, New Mexico, New Mexico News, News, Small Business
Photo: Engineers for 3D Glass Solutions work in a clean room in 2018. The company, which manufactures semiconductor chips, secured $12 million in capital last year. (Roberto E. Rosales, Albuquerque Journal) By Kevin Robinson-Avila, Albuquerque Journal | April 27 2020...