Every week, new banking scandals and stories of corporate tax dodging are in the news. The existing system makes the banking sector’s life …
Archives for March 2015
Better ways to boost eurozone economy and employment (FT)
It is time for the European Central Bank and eurozone central banks to bypass the financial system and work with governments to inject newly …
More investment in infrastructure without any increase in borrowing or taxes
The Director General of Britain’s primary business lobby group, Confederation of Business Industry CBI, says that the next …
Go to a hustings event and ask a question
A hustings is a public meeting that brings electoral candidates and voters together in the run up to an election. It provides an opportunity …
Is this the Type of Recovery we Need?
In his annual budget speech yesterday, Chancellor George Osborne (the UK’s finance minister) declared that UK economy looks like to be in …
To what extent can Positive Money and Modern Monetary Theory join forces?
A recent blog by Clint Ballinger highlights some of the similarities and differences between Positive Money’s proposals and those of Modern …
The Grexit Proposal
It is no secret that tensions are high between Greece, Germany, the Troika, and the rest of Eurozone creditors. There is a lot of …
Prominent Economists Who Advocate a Different Type of Quantitative Easing
Both John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman proposed a style of Quantitative Easing (QE) that was aimed at the real economy. In effect they …
Promises, Promises: A History of Debt (BBC Radio)
Anthropologist David Graeber has explored the ways debt has shaped society over 5,000 years in the BBC Radio 4 Series. Here you can …