Mar 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
A coalition of social justice groups in the UK have released a study criticizing Scotland’s “too big to fail” shareholder banks, and proposing the creation of small, non-profit banks based on public banking models, including public banks in Germany...
Mar 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
An Arizona legislative committee has voted 6-1 to advance a bill authorizing a state task force to study the feasibility of a state-owned bank. S.B. 1301 goes on to Arizona’s State Senate for debate. According to Matt Stannard of the Public Banking Institute,...
Oct 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
This article in today’s Boston Globe details how Bank of America has told some municipal clients to take their banking business elsewhere. In Massachusetts, cities and institutions that got the boot include Fitchburg, with some $11 million on deposit, Worcester,...
Sep 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
Marjorie Kelly, Senior Fellow and Director of Special Projects at The Democracy Collaborative and the author of Owning our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution and The Divine Right of Capital will be the main speaker at a discussion on “Taking Back What We...
Jul 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
Ellen Brown looks at various ways to relieve Greece’s debt crisis and support recovery, while busting some of the myths surrounding how the situation developed, and how politics and predatory financing are keeping more humane solutions off the table. Meanwhile...
Nov 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
We just found out about this nifty Kickstarter campaign on the New York public banking group’s Facebook page—too late to donate so we’re really glad that the project looks like it’s a go. Crash Boom Pop, a graphic novel series about money and...
