Last December it was announced that the Swiss campaign for monetary reform Modernising Money (MoMo) had collected 111,819 signatures to …
Archives for February 2016
Accounting as religion: Buffett, Derrida, and MMT
A number of my recent posts seem to have wound up some of the more sensitive ‘mainstream’ economists, who don’t like the suggestion that the …
The Monetary Reform resolution was put on the Parliament’s agenda in Iceland
On Wednesday 17th Feb 2016 we received great news from Iceland the Monetary Reform resolution calling for the establishment of a special …
Digital Cash & Your Privacy
Since we released our paper Digital Cash, which proposes that members of the public should be able to hold an electronic version of notes …
“Negative” Interest Rates and the War on Cash
Prof Richard Werner has written an interesting article on negative interest rates and the idea that "cash is a barbarous relic and needs to …
Ending the money scam once and for all (Dialect Radio)
In this interview on Dialect Radio we hear what's wrong with our money system and how to fix it from Mark Kerridge of Bristol Positive Money …
How much debt is too much? When should the Bank of England create new money to finance spending?
How much debt is too much? When should the Treasury borrow money and when should the Bank of England create new money to finance …
Money & Society free online course starts again in February 2016 (University of Cumbria)
Following the success of its first and second run, the University of Cumbria will re-run its Money & Society MOOC (Massive Online Open …
What would the world look like if the banks crashed tomorrow? (The Independent)
Huge chunks of money would suddenly drop out of circulation into thin air and the consequences would be catastrophic: cash machines and …