Even after more than five years of traumatic financial and economic crisis, Britain's banks are often still presented as a source of …
Archives for May 2013
Would a Positive Money system be inflationary?
When we suggest that the state (or the Bank of England) should be allowed to create new money, some people automatically react with the …
Plea for a different approach to yet more debt
One of our supporters Simon Davies has recently received a response from the Treasury to a letter he sent to George Osborne back in March. …
Two main problems with deposit insurance
“Bank runs are a common feature of the extreme crises that have played a prominent role in monetary history. During a bank run, depositors …
Material Debt
It seems that dishing out free money is a cure for some ill's and not for others, or for some patients and not others. While the rest of the …
How failed banks on life support can grant humungous bonuses
In the May 21st edition of London's Evening Standard its financial editor Anthony Hilton laid into the Basel regulatory endorsement of …
What would a democratic financial system look like? (video)
The fourth short film from the Transforming Finance conference is now on the Guardian: What would a democratic financial system look …
Banking for the real economy (videos)
Another two videos from the Transforming Finance conference were published in the Guardian: Transforming finance: banking for the real …
Declaring all digital money to be legal tender
A small history lesson on money was published in the latest edition of Irish Village Magazine An 1830s’ recession preceded the …