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Archives for July 2015
Money creation is a lucrative business for private banks
How is money created? Most people, including many economists, think that central banks and thus government creates our money. The …
Banks can be stripped of money creation power without starving economy of credit (New Report)
Positive Money has today released a report showing that stripping the banking sector of its ability to create money, a proposal endorsed by …
Positive Money Retreat 2015 – join us!
Last year, on the eve of the Scottish referendum, the Positive Money team travelled to Ambleside in the Lake District. With anticipation …
The big bank boondoggle* (New Internationalist)
"No single measure is more likely to restore some sanity to finance than withdrawing from private banks their licence to print money", reads …
Iceland, Greece, the budget and a better money system for all (Keiser report)
Ben Dyson, Founder of Positive Money, on Iceland, Greece, the budget & a better money system for all on the Keiser Report (starting …
Bank Robbery: Economists and the Banking System (from Medieval times to Adam Smith)
Chapter 4 (Read the Chapter 1, Chapter 2 and Chapter 3) 1. From Medieval times to Adam Smith Over the years, many economists have noticed …
Positive Money at Glastonbury 2015
A report by Positive Money supporter and volunteer Amy Coats who ran our stall at the festival: One of the first things Ed and I learnt …
News from the Danish campaign for monetary reform
Exciting news from our sister organisation Gode Penge in Denmark: Newly formed party The Alternative (Alternativet) brings monetary …