Positive Money Sheffield hold packed out panel debate on a fairer economy with Natalie Bennett
23 August, 2017The Festival of Debate is an annual festival that is made up of a series of panel discussions, debates, Q&As, artistic responses and keynote speeches in Sheffield, aiming to create a meaningful dialogue around key social, political and economic issues. As part of the festival, in early June 2017, the Sheffield Positive Money local group [...]
Could the Bank of England create money to pay into the economy as a Basic Income?
12 August, 2017In televised debates during the recent general election campaign, several politicians made reference to there being no “magic money tree”. When in fact, there sort of is. This, together with a survey in 2014 that showed that only one in ten MPs know where money comes from, exposes a huge education gap amongst our most [...]
Could the Bank of England create money to pay into the economy as a Basic Income?
12 August, 2017In televised debates during the recent general election campaign, several politicians made reference to there being no “magic money tree”. When in fact, there sort of is. This, together with a survey in 2014 that showed that only one in ten MPs know where money comes from, exposes a huge education gap amongst our most [...]
Inflation report shows Bank of England in crisis
3 August, 2017In response to the Bank of England’s announcement that it will keep interest rates at 0.25%, Fran Boait, executive director of Positive Money said: "Today’s decision is another sign that interest rates are no longer an effective monetary policy tool. Falling real wages have led to a surge in borrowing, with consumer credit rising to [...]
Inflation report shows Bank of England in crisis
3 August, 2017In response to the Bank of England’s announcement that it will keep interest rates at 0.25%, Fran Boait, executive director of Positive Money said: "Today’s decision is another sign that interest rates are no longer an effective monetary policy tool. Falling real wages have led to a surge in borrowing, with consumer credit rising to [...]
Positive Money campaign – What a year so far…
28 July, 2017At just over halfway through the year, we want to share the latest news from the Positive Money campaign. In July, 400 of you chipped in to raise the £2000 we needed to run a professional poll of MPs before their summer holidays. A huge thank you to everyone who made a donation. We got our [...]
Positive Money and the election – one minute to vote
26 April, 2017Another election. So what can we do together to push for a fairer, more democratic and sustainable economy? Please vote for what you think Positive Money should do in the next six weeks to push our issue up the agenda. Just click your favourite to help us decide: Get Positive Money supporters to ask MP candidates key [...]
Our names in the paper
14 March, 2017What an exciting few weeks for the Positive Money campaign! Rounding off this morning with this full-page splash in the local newspaper of the Chair of the influential Treasury Select Committee of MPs. Here’s our crowd-funded advert in the Chichester Observer last week: This advert was funded by hundreds of Positive Money supporters who [...]
2017 Positive Money supporter survey – the results!
16 February, 2017Kickstarting 2017, nearly 3000 Positive Money supporters voted for what we should do together to make our money and banking system fairer this year. Thank you to everyone who shared their ideas. Together we voted on where to focus our campaign, which tactics to use, what’s most important to us, what we want to do [...]