On March 23, 2014, I gave a presentation on Public Banking to New York City's Occupy Altbanking.net group. There were 40 people in attendance, including my invited guests from the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Public Banking Institute, Chair Mike Krauss and Member Walt McRee, as well as Joan Bartl from the NJ Chapter. Alt Banking has a Facebook site as well.
Manny Manhattan, one of the group's organizers, who also has his own local access TV show, took the following video:
and the slideshow I used can be found here
And a version with my notes, here
Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.
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