John Steiner: Alternatives to Existing Banking Services

There is strong undercurrent of “get out of the banks now.”  Here are a couple of messages floating around, together with the observation to Occupy seems intent on creating an Occupy credit union and global lending network.

How about reviving postal banking? It's been successful here and in Europe,
and it could help save our postal service from insolvency.

Public banking proposed in San Francisco and Maine.