The European Central Bank is expected to unveil a multibillion, if not trillion dollar, bond buying program, to save the troubled euro …
Archives for January 2015
QE for Europe – an Opportunity Lost
Quantitative easing is back, only this time in the Eurozone. But is the ECB making the right decision? Like many other economic …
European Central Bank’s QE is a missed opportunity (Letter in the Guardian)
"The EU financial sector does not need to be eased, there is plenty of liquidity in the banks. Quantitative easing, as practised by the Bank …
Occupy and Democratise Money
At the next Occupy Democracy General Assembly demonstration on the 24th January, alongside someone from the Positive Money Team I will be …
Dutch Parliament will debate money creation
Successful citizens' initiative in the Netherlands Last Tuesday Positive Money’s Dutch sister organization Ons Geld launched in cooperation …
Would stripping banks of their power to create money cause a shortage of money, high unemployment and an economic decline? (Report)
Some economists and commentators have claimed that Positive Money’s proposals for a sovereign money system, in which banks are not permitted …
Positive Money at Occupy Democracy
On a cold Saturday evening the weekend before Christmas, I left my friends enjoying mulled wine at Winterville and headed towards Parliament …
Transforming Finance – priorities for the next Parliament
The 2015 general election will take place nearly seven years after the financial crisis of 2008, yet the root causes of the crisis have …
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Banks create money out of thin air - we know it, you know it, but most people on the street still have no idea! They have even less …