Jun 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
The New Economy Institute’s CommonBound 2018 conference will take place this weekend in St. Louis. Here’s an open letter that one of our coordinating group members will be circulating, featuring background on our situation here in Massachusetts as well as...
May 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
This letter from Chuck Grigsby, who is one of the Hub Public Banking group working for a Massachusetts infrastructure bank. April, 17, 2018 In “How should Boston fund its future?” (Opinion, April 10), with regard to infrastructure needs, Matthew Kiefer and Sam Tyler...
Apr 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
There is not much to say about the content of this article detailing the unsurprising ways that Australian banks have been doing business—”lying to regulators, falsifying documents and taking bribes to extracting fees from customers long since dead.”...
Apr 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
On Monday, May 9, the Massachusetts House adopted an extension order H 4383 by Rep. Aaron Michlewitz granting the Joint Committee on Financial Services until Wednesday, May 9 to make its final report on H3543, establishing the Massachusetts infrastructure bank. So the...
Mar 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
Good news! H3543 has been moved to the Joint Committee on Financial Services. We have an historic opportunity to pass legislation to start the first state public bank in the U.S. since 1919! H3543, creating a Massachusetts public infrastructure bank, will give...
Mar 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
Our bill has been reported out of the and sent to the Joint Committee on Financial Services. No hearing date scheduled yet! If your representative or senator sits on the committee, please contact them in support of the bill. We are also happy to come out to speak to...