The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Bringing Bucks to Main Street With a State-Owned Bank of California
The Golden State can lead others down the path of debt peonage and keep paying for Wall Street's blunders – or we can be a model for establishing state economic sovereignty.
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Organized Labor, Public Banks and the Grassroots: Keys to a Worker-Owned Economy
Worker-owned cooperatives build economic democracy. But how do we build more worker-owned cooperatives?
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Prosecuting Wall Street: It's Time to Bring the Banks Before a California Jury
Sixteen of the world’s largest banks have been caught colluding to rig global interest rates – so why are we doing business with a corrupt global banking cartel, and isn't it time someone prosecuted them?
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Revealed: Report Shows Wall Street Ripped Off Los Angeles for $200 Million
The fees Wall Street extracts from public entities like the ones in L.A. could total more than $50 billion a year – enough to provide free tuition at every public college and university in the country.
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The Warren Proposal: Postal Banking Is Key Financial Reform In the Public Good
The postal financial services Senator Elizabeth Warren suggests are important first steps toward democratizing our economy.
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This Is What Prosperity for Main Street – Not Wall Street – Looks Like
Taxpayers are paying more to the financiers of projects than to those who supplied the materials and actually committed the labor to building them. Are you O.K. with Wall Street bankers sucking prosperity from our communities?
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Abandoning Wall Street and Creating a Public Bank for the City of Los Angeles
A Bank of the City of Los Angeles would not compete with commercial banks but would partner with them, using its tax revenue deposits to create interest-free credit for lending programs that go toward funding city projects.
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From Austerity to Abundance: Why I Am Running for California Treasurer
The state cannot solve its budget problems by slashing services that have already been cut to the bone or raising sales taxes that hurt the poor far more than the rich.
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Now Is the Moment to Save Our Postal Commons
Because postal services, owned by the people, are part of the commons, the attack on public postal utilities amounts to an attack on the commons itself.
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Hedges: Overthrow the Speculators and Build Public Banks
We can wrest back control of our economy and our political system from corporate speculators with local movements that decentralize economic power through the creation of hundreds of publicly owned state, county and city banks.
