Aug 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
This opinion piece, “Myths about Wall Street Banks,” is author and public banking activist Rick Girling’s reply to an article critical of the California public banking movement entitled “Myths about LA’s Public Banks,” by Jack...
Apr 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
A little-known fact, especially in the US: a quarter of all banks are state-owned public banks. Yet not all of them operate effectively, equitably, or in response to the needs of the people they ostensibly serve. The potential of public banks to work for the benefit...
Feb 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
Washington State Senator Bob Hasegawa, a long-time advocate for public banking, has filed a bill, SB 5949, that would create a public state investment trust and a commission to oversee it. He filed a similar bill in the last session. The bill’s focus on a...
Jan 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
David Art, publisher of MASSterList, an extremely useful daily digest of Massachusetts political and policy news, events, and jobs, recently sent out a survey to readers, and among the questions was one on priorities for the Baker administration. Art notes… “We...
Aug 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
Here are the best paragraphs from a piece by Neil Swidey in the Boston Sunday Globe magazine encouraging You The Consumer to pay with cash instead of credit or debit cards. He’s taking aim at an argument that friends of the financial industry use to encourage...
Jun 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
Charles Grigsby, a member of the H3543 working group and one of the advisory group members from the original Massachusetts public bank study, wrote this letter to the Jamaica Plain Gazette. The Q and A in the June 8th edition of the JP Gazette with Representative...
