Ben Curtis

Scandal in the City

8 February, 2011
A scandal is taking place in the City, and I don't mean the scandal that takes place every day by allowing the sector to create our entire money supply and loan it to us. This scandal involves leverage of a … Continue reading →

It's Bonus Time!

13 January, 2011
It's bonus time in the City again this year, the Champagne bars will be pleased. But what about the rest of us? LLoyds TSB, 41% owned by the taxpayer, are paying their CEO Eric Daniels £2million this year. Needless to … Continue reading →

£6bn from you, £7bn for me

8 December, 2010
Interesting snippets of information have come to light in the previous few days. Banks are charging the highest ever rates for overdrafts in this country, a facility many of us need due to the recent crisis. 19% is the standard … Continue reading →

Positive Money's Student Conference

17 November, 2010
After a long and demanding weekend of incredibly interesting presentations from our speakers I'm glad to say our first conference, Banking Shapes The World, was a huge success. We sold out 130 tickets well in advance, making it the largest … Continue reading →

Douglas Carswell MP's Bill – Full Text

17 November, 2010
Douglas Carswell's Private members bill has been published by the House of Commons, and can be read in its original form on the link below. The second reading of the bill is due to occur this Friday (19th November) in … Continue reading →

The State of the Campaign

4 November, 2010
We're now six weeks into the Positive Money campaign, and we've made some great progress, the past two weeks marking several important milestones both for Positive Money and the Monetary Reform movement in general. Since our launch we have: 2,000 … Continue reading →

Mervyn King – "Of all the many ways of organising banking, the worst is the one we have today."

27 October, 2010
Mervyn King presented himself several times as broadly in favour of radical redesigns of the banking system. In his speech in New York in October 2010, Banking: from Bagehot to Basel, and back again the Governor of the Bank of … Continue reading →

Democratising Money, from the New Economics Foundation

5 October, 2010
Josh Ryan-Collins from the leading independent economic think-tank, the New Economics Foundation, has written a very good article on the nature of the current banking system, questioning the way we think about money and the system we should decide to use, and … Continue reading →

Independent Commission on Banking Considers Real Monetary Reform

26 September, 2010
Another significant point in history happened on Friday 24th September. The Independent Commission on banking released a report containing sections on the "Issues" with the current banking system, sadly missing was the fact that banks are allowed to profit from the privatised creation … Continue reading →