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Questions raised about Santa Fe public bank
By T. S. Last / Journal Staff Writer | The Albuquerque Journal | November 21, 2017 SANTA FE – One thing was clear from a public forum held by the city of Santa Fe’s Public Bank Task Force, formed to research and identify barriers to forming a public bank: It won’t be easy. On Monday, […]
Forum on public bank proposal set for Monday
By T. S. Last / Journal Staff Writer | The Albuquerque Journal | November 17, 2017 SANTA FE, N.M. — Already halfway through its six-month exercise to examine what next steps need to be taken to establish a public bank in Santa Fe and identify potential barriers, the Public Bank Task Force will hold a […]
Task force says city faces many hurdles to creating a public bank
By Tripp Stelnicki | The New Mexican | November 20, 2017 Whether there will someday be a Public Bank of Santa Fe was not decided Monday night, but concerned community members got an earful of the myriad regulatory and capitalization hurdles that must be resolved or further studied before such an initiative — or even […]
Phil Murphy wins in NJ! Public Banking on the ballot and wins!
BREAKING: Phil Murphy wins New Jersey’s governor’s race. But it’s not only a win for Murphy, it’s also a win for Public Banks. As John Nichols of The Nation put it today, “Public banking is on the ballot today—not as the sort of statewide referendum issue … but in the form of a candidate who knows a […]
California treasurer wants the state to study a public bank option for pot businesses
California Treasurer John Chiang wants the state to consider creating a government-owned bank that could serve cannabis businesses, one of several recommendations aimed at helping bring those businesses into the financial mainstream. The recommendations, the product of a year of meetings of a cannabis working group organized by Chiang’s office, suggest there may be ways for California […]
The Public Bank Option – Safer, Local and Half the Cost
Phil Murphy, a former banker with a double-digit lead in New Jersey’s race for governor, has made a state-owned bank a centerpiece of his platform. If he wins on November 7, the nation’s second state-owned bank in a century could follow. A UK study published on October 27, 2017 reported that the majority of […]
Regulation Is Killing Community Banks. Public Ownership Can Revive Them.
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt | Oct 30, 2017 Crushing regulations are driving small banks to sell out to the megabanks, a consolidation process that appears to be intentional. Publicly owned banks can help avoid that trend and keep credit flowing in local economies. At his confirmation hearing in January 2017, Treasury Secretary Stephen […]
Yes to Public Banking
Given the often “ungressive” character of its editorial positions, it comes as no surprise that The New Mexican advocates against a public bank for Santa Fe (“City must take care of finances,” Our View, Oct. 13). What is especially unattractive, however, is the condescending tone that is used, calling the public bank effort “a notion” and then […]
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From Free Lunch to Public Banks, These Cities Are Giving Us Hope
Dispatches from the Urban Resistance: Alameda to Elyria and beyond. By Jimmy Tobias | SEPTEMBER 29, 2017 | The Nation The progressive left is at its best when it combines visionary politics with pragmatic action, when it makes people’s lives better in a concrete fashion. Franklin Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps began as an ambitious idea that […]
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Episode: Everyone deserves a public bank
“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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