Irish banking crisis

Irish Green Party — “P​ublic Banking can become real ‘Third Force’ in Irish finance”

I just got back from a really good and productive week in Ireland. Haven’t gotten an article out but thought I would post these two articles that were in the local Irish press (online and print).  Two interviews are yet to be published, plus two video interviews (with the UK Guardian and Rabobank); so public […]

Exploring the Sparkassen Model of Local Savings Banks in Ireland

I’m off to Ireland tomorrow to participate in the Kilkenny Festival and to help with the movement there for a network of publicly-owned banks. The Public Banking Forum of Ireland sent a quite promising report on developments that I thought I would post in the meantime, titled Exploring the Sparkassen Model of Local Savings Banks […]