Customers could end up paying more for banking services if financial companies profitability remains strained in 2012, according to …
Archives for January 2012
New Video & the Coming Year
October Conference: First Videos Released Over the next few weeks we’ll be releasing videos from our October conference, starting with …
Boosting Scotland's Lucrative Financial Sector?
“Five years ago the towns and cities of northern England and Scotland symbolised the UK’s bullet-proof housing market. Prices were …
A Revisionist Critique of Fractional Reserve Banking
The conventional account of fractional reserve banking describes how bankers originally accepted precious-metal coined money …
If the Solution Is So Simple, Why Is It Not Being Done?
Hi Positive Money UK, I was wondering, if one of the solutions is to simply issue debt-free money, why is it not being done?! It's been more …
Disrupting Banking
Fellow banking reformer Simon Dixon was presenting at the European Bitcoin conference in Prague. There are three industries that need …
What the Public Does Not Know about Banking, Financial Times
The first letter in the Financial Times on Tuesday 3rd January 2012 was about the creation of money by private banks: “Sir, In …
Our Wish List for 2012
Although the things we wish for the coming year we are unlikely to get in just 12 months, let's remind ourselves at the beginning of …