People’s Quantitative Easing, or PQE for short. What on earth is it? As it’s QE for the people in particular, shouldn’t the people know how …
Archives for November 2015
Presenting the flaws of our money system to economics societies
As both an economics graduate and keen supporter of Positive Money, I am convinced that we should be engaging with economics students as …
Historical examples of Sovereign Money Creation
Using money creation to increase aggregate demand is not a new idea. In fact it has been advocated by some of the 20th century’s most famous …
Vince Cable: rising debt and cheap money risk an economic storm
Former Business Secretary Vince Cable was famously one of the only senior parliamentarians to predict the last financial crisis. And he’s …
Banking in the public interest needs action here and now
The danger of allowing private banks to create money with no oversight was ruthlessly exposed in 2008, when unfettered credit …
Radical New Central-Bank Thinking? The Case for Monetary Finance (by Adair Turner)
The International Monetary Fund has held its sixteenth annual Jacques Polak Research Conference on 5-6 November 2015. The …
Can public money creation work? Some answers from Canadian history
The theoretical and policy arguments for monetary reform are becoming more accepted by economists and establishment figures. The …
Six obstacles that block the creation of a new financial system
Inflation phobia The main obstacle for public money creation has already been mentioned in the previous post: the fear that the creation of …
People’s quantitative easing – isn’t it just printing money? (Podcast)
Listen to the this Weekly Economics Podcast with Fran Boait, Director of Positive Money, talking about People's Quantitative Easing. Why is …