Video Spotlight: WA Senator Bob Hasagawa’s compelling public bank presentation to Bellingham City Council
On December 16, 2019, WA Senator Bob Hasagawa made a public bank presentation to the City Council of Bellingham, WA, that […]
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San Diego officials join a growing list of California cities exploring the formation of public banks
Photo by Montylov. Four San Diego City Councilmembers — Georgette Gómez, Dr. Jennifer Campbell, Chris Ward and Monica Montgomery — […]
White paper lays the groundwork for public banks in the Northeast and Midwest
The Northeast-Midwest Institute, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit nonpartisan public policy organization formed in 1976, published an instructive 100-page report in […]
The Public Banking Act allows communities to control their money
Illustration by Chiara Di Martino courtesy El Tecolote. In the San Francisco paper El Tecolote, Ian Firstenberg writes that California’s AB857 is […]
Michael Hudson, guest on the latest It’s Our Money podcast, says our “neo-feudal” system is on the verge of collapse
In the latest It’s Our Money podcast, PBI Chair Ellen Brown and co-host Walt McRee speak with renowned economist Michael […]
Video Spotlight: Ellen Brown and Walt McRee discuss a public bank’s ability to fund a Green New Deal
In this episode of the local network TV program The Public Bank Solution, PBI Chair Ellen Brown and Senior Advisor Walt […]
Academics and advocates share ideas at DC symposium on public banking
Mehrsa Baradaran via Skype. Photo by Suzanne O’Keeffe. On Friday, January 24, Take on Wall St, a campaign of Americans […]
David Dayen: Building the people’s banks
Photo by Alexander Mils. David Dayen writes in The American Prospect we do not need to endure an economy raided and […]
American Banker: Former Wells Fargo executives may face criminal charges in coming weeks after record civil fines
Photo by Erol Ahmed. Underscoring the critical need for public bank alternatives to hold the public’s money, Kevin Wack reports in American […]
IMF acknowledges that banks create money out of the blue
In late December, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a working paper entitled Money Creation in Fiat and Digital Currency […]