This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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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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Policing Justice Requires Economic Justice, Part II
From new ways of working, producing, and sharing, new ways of protecting ourselves will grow.
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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.
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Building an Ark: How to Protect Public Revenues from the Next Meltdown
While the too-big-to-fail banks have collectively grown 37% larger since 2008, we are steamrolling toward the greatest financial disaster in world history, and nobody is doing much of anything to stop it.
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Scotland May Not Be Independent – But A Public Bank Will Bring Economic Sovereignty
A publicly-owned bank could help Scotland take control of its own economic destiny by avoiding unnecessary debt to a private banking system that's become a burden to the economy.
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Even the Council on Foreign Relations Says It's Time to Rain Money on Main Street
When an article appears in Foreign Affairs recommending that the Federal Reserve do a money drop directly on the 99%, you know the central bank must be down to its last bullet.
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Why Banking at the Post Office Beats Payday Loans – and Wall Street
The USPS used to offer financial services – and proponents say that bringing them back could buffer us from financial meltdowns and alleviate poverty.
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Big Banks Hit with Monster $250 Billion Lawsuit in Housing Crisis
Investors led by BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, and PIMCO, the world’s largest bond-fund manager, have sued some of the world’s largest banks for breach of fiduciary duty.
