Home > Newsroom > In the News > In These Times: 100 Years Ago, Farmers and Socialists Established the Country’s First Modern Public Bank In These Times: 100 Years Ago, Farmers and Socialists Established the Country’s First Modern Public Bank 07.28.2019• By Matthew Kovac• Posted in In the News Read the full story from In These Times’ Thomas M. Hanna and Adam Simpson.