Where does money come from? In the modern economy, most money takes the form of bank deposits. But how those bank deposits are created is …
Bank of England & QE
A Scottish Currency? – 5 Lessons from the Design Flaws of Pound Sterling
In September 2014, Scotland will hold a referendum to decide whether to separate from the UK. A major question concerns which currency an …
Hair of the dog risks a bigger hangover for Britain (FT)
Does the UK have a sensible strategy for recovery? Just recall: the last time it tried the credit-expansion route to growth, it ended up in …
Should we accept the world’s banks can do what they like? (BBC World Service)
Barclays Bank have been criticised for cutting between 10,000 and 12,000 jobs on the same day it announced it was increasing the total paid …
Adair Turner: Escaping The Addiction to Private Debt Is Essential for Long-Term Economic Stability
Financial reforms introduced since the crisis still have not addressed the fundamental driver of economic and financial instability – …
The Guardian: Change to UK’s money system could solve our long-term economic problems
Oh, at long last the monetary reform movement gets a long overdue platform in the Guardian. This is the biggest story out there right now - …
Is Bank of England actually capable of dealing with asset bubbles?
House prices in UK are rising at nearly ten times the pace of average earnings. The Bank of England has already scrapped its Funding for …
House prices are rising at nearly 10 times average earnings
Halifax reveals house price inflation running at 7.7pc as low interest rates and Government schemes trigger a £37-a-day jump over past year, …
Why we weren’t watching the ECB
People think that Central Banks ‘create money’ or ‘control the money supply’ but this is not true, reads this "Socialist in the City" …