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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Swimming with the Sharks: How Goldman Sachs Indebted California's Schools
In 2008, after collecting millions of dollars in fees to help California sell its bonds, Goldman urged its bigger clients to place investment bets against those bonds – a scam ensnaring future generations in mountains of debt.
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Cheaper, Faster, Better: The Time for Postal Banking Is Now
Postal banking represents a national, nonprofit public option to the private, for-profit banking system – and a solution for the one in four Americans who are underbanked.
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How Public Banking is Winning the West
From Washington and Colorado to Arizona and New Mexico, the movement to create city and regional public banks is heating up.
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Why Public Banks Outperform Private Banks – From North Dakota to Switzerland
Despite the benefits they offer, publicly-owned banks could wind up getting sued for unfair competition under the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Vermonters Lobby for A Public Bank — And Win Millions for Local Investment Instead
Public banking advocates may not have gotten the state bank they wanted – but they were able to pass new rules that will extend loans to local projects.
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Seattle City Council is Considering Another Groundbreaking Idea: A Public Bank
This city's government knows that the antecedents of democracy are material – the ability to provide services, the ability to absorb the impact of economic shifts, the ability to make citizens feel invested in their communities.
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Endorsing Public Banks and Worker Coops, Amara Enyia Mounts a Mayoral Campaign In Chicago
What makes Enyia’s ideas about governing revolutionary is that they're policies which hardwire economic justice and sustainability into the institutions themselves.
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Big Banks Broke America: How to Achieve The Ultimate Revenge Against Them
Since looting all of us for a generous bailout, you'd have thought they'd all lie low. Here's what they did instead.
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The Postal Public Option: How the USPS Can Rescue Desperate Payday Borrowers
Predatory financial services like Cash America are siphoning around $100 billion per year from the pockets of people who need the money most – giving urgency to the call for low-cost postal financial services.
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Surprise, Goldman Sachs: Public Bank of North Dakota Just Outperformed Wall Street
New figures reveal that public banks are safer for depositors, allow public infrastructure costs to be cut in half – and provide a non-criminal alternative to a Wall Street cartel caught in a laundry list of frauds.
