“So if we had a public bank, it would have been able to step in to offer immediate low-cost loans without having to wait for federal aid.”

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advocated for a public bank that could step in to offer immediate low-cost loans after a disaster instead of waiting for federal aid

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“If you offer liquidity 100 percent of the time, and people want their money back, then naturally that gating provision has to come about because you have to wait to the loans actually come back.”
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