Inequality & Mental Health: The Missing Link
17 May, 2019Two things caught our attention this week. First off, Nobel prize-winning Economist Angus Deaton launched a review into inequality. Secondly, it’s been UK mental health awareness week. These two topics are directly related. Ten years ago, academic couple Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett published their best-selling book The Spirit Level. In it they lay numerous [...]
Mark Carney: put your money where your mouth is, unleash green investment now!
9 May, 2019Bank of England Action 2019 On Thursday 2nd May, Positive Money staff, supporters and members of the grassroots divestment group Fossil Free London, gathered outside the Bank of England to get our voices heard on the role of the Bank in tackling climate change. And we didn’t go alone. We carried over 4,500 signatures from [...]
IMMR Annual Meeting 2019
9 April, 2019This blog was originally posted on the International Movement for Monetary Reform's website and is written by Runa Bonnichsen Jørgensen, of our sister organisation in Denmark, Gode Penge. The International Movement for Monetary Reform (IMMR) gathered members from across the world for its annual meeting on the 22-24th March 2019. This year the meeting took place [...]