Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Credit Unions

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why credit unions are secretly incredibly fascinating.

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• Katie Goldin on Twitter
• @ProBirdRights
• ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
• When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
• Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
• Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)

• Money: The True Story Of A Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein
• The History Of Money by Jack Weatherford
• Living Tradition: The Kwakwaka’wakw Potlatch on the Northwest Coast (The Virtual Museum Of Canada)
• Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Tires (Maximum Fun)
• Credit Unions Worldwide (European Network of Credit Unions)
• National Credit Union Administration: Quarterly Credit Union Data Summary 2022 Q2
• Co-operative banking alive and thriving in Europe (The Guardian)
• The biggest credit union gets even larger (AmericanBanker.com)
• 26 U.S. Code § 501 – Exemption from tax on corporations, certain trusts, etc. (Cornell Law)
• How other nations treat credit unions’ tax status (AmericanBanker.com)
• Here’s great stuff from Marketplace (APM) and from the Richmond Fed about the banks in the movie ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ (1946). The Bailey bank is part of a “building and loan” tradition. It could also be a credit union, but we don’t know whether it’s mutually owned and whether it meets other qualifications. (Also, here’s quotes from the character Mr. Martini.)
• Leonard Nimoy’s death inspires “Spocking” of Canadian currency (CBS News)
• Reddit upload of a Swedish 10 daler coin, with human hand for size comparison
• Four Hundred Years Later, Scholars Still Debate Whether Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” Is Anti-Semitic (Smithsonian Magazine)
• Antisemitism In History: The Early Modern Era, 1300-1800 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
• ‘Neither A Borrower Nor A Lender Be’, Meaning & Context (NoSweatShakespeare.com)
• Conversations: Beatrice Webb, Elizabeth Warren (Lapham’s Quarterly)
• 200th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Jurkovič (National Bank of Slovakia)
• Sobotište: Place Of Work Of Samuel Jurkovič (Cooperative Union of the Slovak Republic)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (AmericanBanker.com)
• Alphonse Desjardins (Canadian Museum Of History)
• Alphonse Desjardins (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Encyclopedia Britannica entry for Edward A. Filene, American entrepreneur
• Edward Filene: Pioneer of Social Responsibility (Jewish Currents)
• The Federal Credit Union System: A Legislative History by John T. Croteau, Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame
• FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, June 26, 1934 (Politico)
• The Church in Latin America (Foreign Affairs)
• Google Removes ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Clause From Its Code of Conduct (Gizmodo)
• The Nobel Peace Prize 2006: Muhammad Yunus: Biographical Information (NobelPrize.org)