Links & Articles on Public Banking

Why Banking for the Public Good Is No Pipe Dream (Ms. Magazine, 2023)

Transcending Finance with Public Banking (Institute for the Future, 2023)

The SVB and Signature Bank Failures Show Why We Need Public Banking (Truthout, 2023)

East Bay Activists Unveil New Blueprint for a Regional Public Bank (NextCity, 2022)

Proposals for Public Banks Move Forward in Several States (People’s World, 2022)

A World Where Finance is Democratic (Noema, 2022)

Public Banking Around the World (Vance Center, 2021)

Why Shouldn’t the People Own the Banks? (The Nation, 2021)

Will 2021 be Public Banks’ Watershed Moment? (Common Dreams, 2021)

Constructing the Democratic Public Bank (The Democracy Collaborative, 2021)

Three Cities states and two cities are getting serious about Public Banking (Next City, 2021)

The Public Banking Movement in the United States (PERI Working Paper, 2021)

The Public Bank Alternative (Dollars&Sense, 2021)

We Need Public Banking (Jacobin, 2021)

Public Banking (Just Money, 2020)

After the Coronavirus Pandemic, Let Public Banks Lead the Rebuilding (Nonprofit Quarterly, 2020)

Public Banking Act Gives us a Proven Model to Address Unprecedented Crises (Medium, 2020)

Why the Fed needs Public Banks (Scheerpost, 2020)

Public banking would help speed the economic recovery from COVID-19 (The Hill, 2020)

What a Public Bank can do for Real People? (yes! magazine, 2020)

California’s More Than Dreamin’ about Public Banks (Next City, 2019)

How a Brief Socialist Takeover in North Dakota Gave Residents a Public Bank (Vox, 2019)

Sparkassen Savings Banks in Germany (Centre for Public Impact, 2017)

Public Banks: Bank of North Dakota (Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 2015)

Public Banks (Democracy Policy Network, 2020)

When Banks Abandoned American Samoa, the islands found a solution nobody has used in a century (Washington Post, 2018)

How Public Banks Can Help Finance a Green and Just Energy Transformation (Transnational Institute, 2017)

Municipal Banking: An Overview (The Roosevelt Institute, 2016)

Banking on America: How Main Street Partnership Banks Can Improve Local Economies (Community-Wealth.org, 2011)

 Oscar Perry Abello (2021): Public Banks: A Next City Flashbook

Thomas Marois (2021): Public Banks: Decarbonization, Definancialization and Democratization 

Mark K. Cassell (2021): Banking on the State: The Political Economy of Public Savings Banks

David A. McDonald, Thomas Marois, Diana Barrowclough (eds.) (2020): Public Banks and COVID 19

Tom Sgouros (2013): Checking the Banks: The Nuts and Bolts of Banking for People Who Want to Fix It

Ellen Brown (2013): The Public Bank Solution: From Austerity to Prosperity

Viability Study

Public Bank East Bay - Overview

AB 857 Overview and Updates 

2023 California Public Banking Alliance Resource Booklet

AB 857 (California Public Banking Act) (summary)

AB 1177 (CA Public Banking Option Act) (summary)

Federal Public Banking Act (Ocasio-Cortez/Tlaib)

National Infrastructure Bank Act (Moulton)

Postal Banking Act (Sanders/Gillibrand)