There are some good comments from Lord Adair Turner, former Chairman of the Financial Services Authority in the interview on BBC Radio 4 …
Archives for December 2013
Why our monetary system contributes to the gap between rich and poor
We have a monetary system in which loans create money and repayments destroy money. So at any one time the amount of money in the …
It’s been an exciting year for Positive Money…
It's been an exciting and slightly exhausting 12 months for Positive Money. I just want to review some of things that have happened over the …
Hackney Gazette on Positive Money campaign
Hackney campaigner takes on banks as he aims to tackle widening gap between rich and poor and escalating house prices, reads the title of …
People & Money – The real problem is to not act
In the last few months, I contemplated the idea of organising an event in Leicester about Money and the financial system. I first started by …
Campaign for Monetary Reform – News from Switzerland
The organisation for Monetary Reform in Switzerland, MoMo - short for Monetäre Modernisiering meaning Modernising Money - has recently …
Positive Money Conference 2014 – Booking Open!
When friends or acquaintances say to me that Positive Money's campaign is just not realistic, that what we are trying to change is too big, …
UK banks benefited from £38bn ‘too big to fail’ state subsidy
Britain's biggest banks benefited from a "too big to fail" subsidy from the taxpayer of £38bn last year, according to a leading …
People living in the real economy know the crisis isn’t over
Although it is unnerving to think about, most economists and politicians do not fully understand why the financial crisis happened, reads an …