With your help on this final day, we can surpass $5,500 for this year-end campaign.* Thank you for each gift and all your support! Please consider helping us reach 10 more new monthly donors before New Year’s Day. Your gifts now will have double the impact. *If you made a donation or recurring donation early …
By popular request, we’ve created two new eye-catching banners that can be used at farmers markets and other community events to help advocates across the country spread the word about public banking. These banners communicate quickly and are supported by the messages in PBI’s trifold brochures and slide deck. You can add your public banking group’s …
Just launched: New banners can help advocates make an impact at community events Read More
Our year-end donations are now approaching $3,000.* We are very grateful for every gift. Please, let’s keep the momentum going. We just haven’t gotten enough to move forward into 2023. We really do need your help now. *If you’ve made a donation or recurring donation recently, please check that you’ve received a confirmation email. We’ve been made …
PBI Chair Ellen Brown’s latest article in ScheerPost considers perhaps Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has something besides tackling inflation in mind as he continues forging ahead with rate increases, which appear to be a failed strategy. Ellen writes, In the face of all this economic strife, why is the Fed not reversing its aggressive interest rate hikes, as …
With newly printed PBI trifold brochures in hand, Nelson Betancourt took the message of public banking to the people by setting up a tent at VegFest, which took place at Orlando Festival Park. Nelson writes: Our non-profit organization, AWAKENING/art & culture, took the initiative to set up a vendor tent at Veg Fest — a fantastic festival …
New Mexico advocacy organization the Alliance for Local Economic Prosperity (AFLEP) and Retake Our Democracy are co-hosting a public banking webinar on Wednesday, October 26. Details from AFLEP: Join AFLEP Executive Director Angela Merkert and AFLEP Public Bank Campaign Director / retired banker Harold Dixon to discover precisely how a state public bank would collaborate, not compete, …
New Mexico webinar Oct 26, 8pm ET / 6pm MT / 5pm PT— Creating a Public Bank in NM Read More
Watch the Alliance for Local Economic Prosperity’s (AFLEP) new video about one incredible farm cooperative in Central New Mexico, which provides food, trains farmers, and incubates businesses. The coop describes the financing challenges faced by local farmers and small businesses. A Public Bank in New Mexico could be a vital resource to invest in local food production, …
This week’s NIB Coalition Town Hall on Thursday, October 27 will focus on the latest news about the inflation war. PBI Chair Ellen Brown, PBI Senior Advisor Walt McRee, and Cornell Professor and PBI Advisory Board member Robert Hockett are on the panel and have some new insights to share. From the Coalition for a National …
Mike Krauss, one of the original founders of Public Banking Institute, passed away October 10th at his home in Mexico. He was a powerful speaker and bipartisan organizer. Our colleagues gave us these tributes: Marc Armstrong: “I got to know Mike Krauss as we launched the Public Banking Institute back in late fall of 2010. …
Eric Hardmeyer, the long term president and CEO of the Bank of North Dakota, will unfortunately not be able to speak at this event, but his very articulate and effective video presentation organized by the New York Public Banking Coalition will enlighten us about banking in the public interest and the proper use of the …
Please join Emmy Award-winning author Steven Fenberg, Public Banking Institute Chair and author Ellen Brown, and macroeconomist Alphecca Muttardy for the timely Zoom presentation “Rebuild the Nation with a New Reconstruction Finance Corporation.” The compelling forum will examine the primary role the Roosevelt era Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) played in rescuing the nation from the …
