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How Public Banking Could Make Black Lives Matter

How Public Banking Could Make Black Lives Matter

Rickey Gard Diamond

In her new book “The Color of Money,” UCI law professor Mehrsa Baradaran says that if history is any guide, Black capital and Black banks alone will not be enough to end Black poverty. True equity will require a fundamental reworking of the U.S. banking system.

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Moving Forward with Profits for Nonprofits

Moving Forward with Profits for Nonprofits

Rickey Gard Diamond

Dr. Melanie Rieback has bucked American business as usual by creating a profitable nonprofit business—a mutually beneficial investment that may not be so linear or individualistic and male as past business models have often been described.

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Economic Growth: Who Needs It?

Economic Growth: Who Needs It?

Rickey Gard Diamond

“We are seeing a huge wealth transfer in the CARES Act, giving benefit to private corporations, and the taxpayers will pay for it.”

While the economy collapses around us, Diamond asks: Why does a growth-pressured economy fall apart so quickly?

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the fed

Want to Understand the Fed? Ask Pam or Ellen, not Janet or Jay

Rickey Gard Diamond

A financial system funded by the public for the public good, could create money as a utility for all of us on Main Street, instead of what we have now—The Fed, a profit center for the richest few on Wall Street.

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Fossil Fuel Violence Demands A Righteous-Babe Response

Rickey Gard Diamond

Wall Street is going nuts: Coronavirus has unglued the global economy’s lines of supply, threatening corporate bottom lines. Then, Russia picked the perfect time to fight over oil production with OPEC. It is time to rethink fossil fuel loyalties and the wars it provokes wherever our beautiful earth is drilled, injected and fractured.

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Yowling at Trump’s New CAT Policy

Rickey Gard Diamond

U.S. CAT Policy won’t regulate the surprising number of kitty videos we so love on YouTube and Facebook—nor will it urge you to get your pet spayed. But you should worry.

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Daddy Warbucks Isn’t Coming to Our Rescue—But Women Economists Will

Rickey Gard Diamond

When the first ever female president of the Economic Policy Institute, Thea Lee, appeared on Samantha Bee’s Full Frontal, she proved that economists can be fully human and funny—and encouraging a whole flank of female economists, notably rare in this still whitest, mostly male and unfunniest realm.

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It’s Time to Break Up Race and Gender Monopolies

Rickey Gard Diamond

“No one has it all figured out yet,” says La’Wana Harris about the word “diversity,” to which she’s devoted her career. “Some talk about diversity as inclusion, or diversity as equity, but I like to think diversity is also about belonging. Belonging is a big one.”

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Sister, Can You Spare $400?

Rickey Gard Diamond

In Vermont, some capital is in women’s hands. Their numbers are smaller, but they are venturing into new territory with a wider purpose than fat cat profits.

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75 Years Later, Women are Finally Half the Sky at Bretton Woods

Rickey Gard Diamond

Seventy-five years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gathered monetary thinkers of the Allied forces—all-male, of course—to a secret meeting in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. When Silicon Valley’s Galia Benartzi organized a Global Economic Visioning Summit to mark the anniversary, she made sure half its speakers were women.

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