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Fran Boait

Fran Boait



Coronavirus exposes deep rooted problems at the heart of our economy

21 April, 2020
From financialisation to structural oppression, Covid-19 is highlighting how dysfunctional our economic system really is. Covid-19 has sent the world into turmoil. And in its wake the pandemic isn’t just threatening lives, but exposing a highly dysfunctional economic system and intensifying pre-existing inequalities. Just as we can only comprehend some natural phenomena by watching accelerated [...]


Regulation to the rescue? 5 problems with ring-fencing, Basel III, and competition in the banking sector

10 July, 2018
Length: 6 minutes Technical Read  On Wednesday 4th July, I was invited to speak at the Westminster Business Forum as part of the event ‘Building a resilient UK financial sector - next steps for prudential regulation, structural reform and mitigating risks’. The panel I was asked to join was Preparing for the impact of the [...]


Why the Bank of England’s tools are broken

15 June, 2017
The Bank of England has voted to keep interest rates at 0.25% today. Currently, the policies of low rates and quantitative easing are designed to keep households and businesses borrowing. But as the weak pound makes imports more expensive, inflation has risen sharply. This prompted a split in the Bank’s monetary policy committee, with three [...]


The truth behind the “magic money tree”

3 June, 2017
Amber Rudd, who stood in for Theresa May on the BBC debate on 31st May had a new line of attack for Jeremy Corbyn, accusing him of believing in a ‘magic money tree.’ She told the audience, ‘there is no magic money tree’. The Prime Minister Theresa May then used the same phrase in response [...]


Review of “The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers”

14 April, 2017
Summary Ann Pettifor’s new book, The Production of Money, is an excellent contribution to the growing body of thought exposing mainstream, neoclassical economics’ poor understanding of money, banking, and finance, and how its thinking has led to a financial system that we serve, rather than one that serves us. Drawing extensively on Keynes’ thinking and [...]


The autumn statement falls far short of what the UK economy requires

23 November, 2016
When the Chancellor took office, he pledged to “reset” economic policy. And the Prime Minister, recognising the effects of the Bank of England’s policies on inequality, promised to bring about a “change”. Today’s autumn statement falls far short of what the UK economy requires. Despite expectations earlier in the year that the government would announce [...]


RIP Michael

21 October, 2015
The Positive Money team are very sad to have lost a friend and ally in Michael Meacher. Michael was one of the Commons' foremost champions for money reform. He worked with colleagues from across the house in calling for greater parliamentary scrutiny of our monetary system. Most recently, in November last year, he co-sponsored a [...]


People’s QE goes mainstream

18 August, 2015
Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn has sparked a major debate about monetary and economic policy by calling for what he calls a ‘People’s QE’. He argues that ‘The Bank of England must be given a new mandate to upgrade our economy to invest in new large scale housing, energy, transport’. People’s QE is similar to [...]


Greece, Sovereign Money, and what happens on Sunday

4 July, 2015
I wanted to write something after being lucky enough to spend time in Greece over the last 10 days. Several people have got in touch to suggest that Positive Money should be “telling the Greek government about creating a sovereign money system” as the solution to their problems. I would compare that to telling someone [...]
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