by Michelle Mosser | Apr 27, 2020 | Economics, National, News, Small Business
Photo: The Union Bank & Trust branch at 27th Street and Pine Lake Road in Lincoln, Nebraska. Courtesy hustlermoneyblog.com. By Jeanne Whalen and Renae Merle, The Washington Post | Apr 22, 2020 Working from home, employees hustled to process small-business...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 17, 2020 | Economics, National, News, Small Business
Photo: Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union, by Oscar Perry Abello By Oscar Perry Abello, Next City | Apr 16, 2020 Applications officially opened on April 3 for the new Paycheck Protection Program loans guaranteed by the Small Business...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 7, 2020 | Economics, Local Economies, News, Small Business
Photo by Denise Womack-Avila, (CC BY 2.0) By Michael H. Shuman, Commentary on Community Economics Blog | Apr 7, 2020 Everyone knows that the three, multi-trillion-dollar stimulus bills passed by Congress fall way short. For most local businesses—the lifeblood of our...
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 Anthony Colombo | Dec 20, 2014 | Commercial Banking, Local Economies, News, Print Media, Public Banking, Small Business
While many of us understand the importance and benefit of public banks for stimulating local economies, there are many who have the opposite point-of-view and can present arguments that are reasonable, given their set of assumptions. It is important that we understand...
by Anthony Colombo | Nov 19, 2014 | Commercial Banking, Local Economies, News, Print Media, Public Banking, Small Business
One of the major roles of the Bank of North Dakota (BND) is to support small businesses within the state. This story, which was in the New York Times Blog, You’re the Boss — The Art of Running a Small Business on March 13, 2014, gives some detail about how...