A recent blog by Clint Ballinger highlights some of the similarities and differences between Positive Money’s proposals and those of Modern …
Archives for 2015
The Grexit Proposal
It is no secret that tensions are high between Greece, Germany, the Troika, and the rest of Eurozone creditors. There is a lot of …
Prominent Economists Who Advocate a Different Type of Quantitative Easing
Both John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman proposed a style of Quantitative Easing (QE) that was aimed at the real economy. In effect they …
Promises, Promises: A History of Debt (BBC Radio)
Anthropologist David Graeber has explored the ways debt has shaped society over 5,000 years in the BBC Radio 4 Series. Here you can …
What can we learn from the England’s Housing Survey?
The Department for Communities and Local Government recently released its Housing Survey for England*. The report ultimately confirms what …
Bank of England asks fundamental questions about the future of money
The Bank of England has set up a new research hub, called "One Bank Research", which is tasked with looking at some of the fundamental …
There is an elephant in the room at this election
There is an elephant in the room at the next election that no one will name. It’s not austerity, although it is closely related to it. The …
Steve Keen: What Is Money And How Is It Created?
These should be two of the easiest questions to answer in economics; after all, money is the one thing that we all use in an economy—surely …
Citizen’s Initiative in the Netherlands passing 100,000 signatures
Last Saturday, early in the morning, the 100,000th signature was registered for the Citizens’ initiative to put money creation on the …