Inequality is at its highest point in Britain for 50 years. The gap between rich and poor is the widest since the second world war. Watch …
Archives for 2013
The economic madness of Help to Buy
The UK has a serious household debt problem. In 2012 it stood at almost 150% of disposable income, one of the highest levels amongst …
Fix the money system before it destroys Israel
An excellent article by Bill Still has been published in one of two leading Economics magazines in Israel The Marker on 3rd October …
The housing market – unsustainable asset bubble or ladder to prosperity?
This article first appeared in Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Guide to Sustainable Homes 2013: Every time I attend to a lecture on house …
The Grassroots Reinvention of Money Part 3
This is the 3rd part of the series The Grassroots Reinvention of Money. You can read the 1st part here and 2nd part here. Profitable and …
Wikipedia does not describe the process of money creation correctly
The pages in Wikipedia on fractional reserve banking, and money creation still give top billing to the discredited …
FT: Western economies hooked on ever-expanding levels of debt
Every now and then a financial journalist hits the nail on the head in the issue of the debt crisis. An article entitled "West’s debt …
The Grassroots Reinvention of Money Part 2
Money and Unmoney This is the 2nd part of the series The Grassroots Reinvention of Money. You can read the 1st part here. The advent of …
There are none so blind as those who will not see
[sws_blockquote_endquote align="right" cite="" quotestyle="style02"] There are none so blind as those who will not see Old English …