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Money and Banking 101 — Issues and Solutions (Part 3 of 3)
Money and Banking 101 — Issues and Solutions (Part 3 of 3)
From time-to-time we will post items that we are calling Money and Banking 101. These come from various sources around the world. This is the first in that series. The three videos presented here come from the Public Banking Institute and the Pennsylvania Public Bank Project. This is the last post of three in this series.
Money and Banking 101 — Issues and Solutions (Part 2 of 3)
Money and Banking 101 — Issues and Solutions (Part 2 of 3)
From time-to-time we will post items that we are calling Money and Banking 101. These come from various sources around the world. This is the first in that series. The three videos presented here come from the Public Banking Institute and the Pennsylvania Public Bank Project. This is the second post of three in the series.
Money and Banking 101 — Issues and Solutions (Part 1 of 3)
Money and Banking 101 — Issues and Solutions (Part 1 of 3)
From time-to-time we will post items that we are calling Money and Banking 101. These come from various sources around the world. This is the first in that series. The three videos presented here come from the Public Banking Institute and the Pennsylvania Public Bank Project. This is the first post of three in this series.
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 the formation of Public Banks at the state and municipal level in Pennsylvania. They recently visited Santa […]
Public Banking Experts, Gwen Hallsmith and Mike Krauss
Gwen most recently made national headlines with her work in Vermont to ask Town Meetings to consider public banking. On March 4th, 18 cities and towns in Vermont voted to endorse a resolution directing the state legislators to create a State Bank for Vermont. Thanks to the media expertise of William Boardman and Matt […]
Public Banking in the Press — Santa Fe Mayor Gonzalez briefed on public banking
From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Mayor wants to study possibility of launching public bank Posted: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 9:00 pm | Updated: 8:08 am, Wed Jun 11, 2014. By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican Mayor Javier Gonzales wants to study the feasibility of creating a public bank in Santa Fe to grow […]
Rising debt service costs: Public banks for tax relief
Across the United States, states and municipal governments struggle to provide essential public services, such as schools, public safety, courts and prisons, public health, transportation infrastructure and parks, while also trying to keep taxes down for a middle class burdened with taxes of every kind. Some of those taxes are easily identified, like those on income, wages, property, sales and gas. Some are almost invisible. One of these is the tax on the money raised by the bonds that governments issue to pay for capital projects. It’s called interest, and this tax shows up in our public budgets and financial reports as “debt service,” which adds to the burden on taxpayers.
Santa Cruz County Won’t Do Business With Big Banks That Act Like Crooks
Santa Cruz County, California, recently figured out a way to hold big banks who engage in illegal and destructive behavior accountable: Don’t do business with them.
According to AllGov California, the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors, acting on a request from Supervisor Ryan Coonerty, voted to “not do new business for a period of five years with Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS as specified, and further direct that the County unwind existing relationships with these five banks to the greatest extent feasible.”
A Revolutionary Pope Calls for Rethinking the Outdated Criteria That Rule the World
Posted on July 3, 2015 by Ellen Brown Pope Francis’ revolutionary encyclical addresses not just climate change but the banking crisis. Interestingly, the solution to that crisis may have been modeled in the Middle Ages by Franciscan monks following the Saint from whom the Pope took his name. Pope Francis has been called “the revolutionary […]
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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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