The Public Banking Institute is hosting the Public Banking in America Conference in San Francisco during Spring of 2013.

The conference will focus on: the role of public banking throughout the world, with special emphasis on: the Bank of North Dakota; the current banking crisis, its causes and solutions; and direction and guidance to those who wish to further public banking in their cities, counties, and states.

Presenters and attendees include state policymakers, legislators, banking professionals, economists, independent business persons, community organizers, and others interested in these critical and timely issues.

Presentations included:

• Revisiting the success of public banking in colonial America and throughout the world, including a session on Canada’s successful history of public banking and how it has been suppressed.
• The benefits of city-owned banks, county-owned banks, state-owned banks, university-owned banks, and public land banks.
• The hidden costs of interest, and how this lost revenue can be returned to the public through publicly-owned banks.
• Why a banking system designed to prop up Wall Street’s too-big-to-fail banks doesn’t work, not only for people who have lost their jobs and their homes but for those who still have jobs, homes, and money to invest—and why public banking is the solution.
• The history, structure, and governance of the Bank of North Dakota.
• The current movement to establish publicly-owned banks—progress, obstacles, and reports from the field.

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“Although we have so foolishly allowed the field of circulating medium to be filched from us by private individuals, I think we may recover it. … The states should be asked to transfer the right of issuing paper money to Congress, in perpetuity.”

(Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Eppes, 1813)

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