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New paper calls for digital cash implementation in the Eurozone
Today, the Dutch NGO Ons Geld (“Our Money”), published a thought-provoking paper outlining how a digital cash scheme – a virtual euro – …
Is there a magic money tree? (Podcast)
Listen to the interview with Fran Boait, Positive Money's executive director: (20 min from 1:10:59 till 1:30:40) …
We want leaders who will rebalance our economy
This morning Positive Money supporters unveiled two AdVans that are now driving round Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn’s constituencies with …
Alarming data casts grave doubt on the sustainability of the UK’s economic growth
UK households are saving less than they ever have. The latest ONS data puts the UK household saving rate at just 1.7% in the first quarter …
Bank Robbery: How would money (and the world) be different after reform?
Although ‘pure’ (sovereign) money would seem pretty much the same to people using it, it would behave differently from bank-money in a …
Bank Robbery: Transition to a new money system
The transition would involve a one-off re-definition of money units as units of pure property, not ownership of debt from banks. The rest of …
Bank Robbery: How to change the system
The nature of money Essentially, money is a form of property. Your money is your money, mine is mine, otherwise money has no meaning. Money …
Bank Robbery: How the money system makes some rich, others poor
Banks create new money in massive amounts – always as debt. How does this work towards making financial predators rich and productive …