12-year Old Attacks Banking System
16 May, 201212-year old Victoria Grant explains why her homeland, Canada, and most of the world, is in debt at a recent Public Banking Institute conference http://vimeo.com/41954094 The video spreads fast on internet (315,000 hits in 8 days) and was already published on Bloomberg too.
Screenings, New videos & Competition, Update 15th May
16 May, 2012It’s been a very busy two weeks: the new documentary 97% Owned has been viewed over 65,000 times in 14 days. Below is an invitation to a very special cast-and-crew screening (with only 40 seats available) on June 26th, and there are screenings and meetups in Sheffield, Bristol, Powys and North Yorkshire. We’re also [...]
Three Simple Solutions for Greece
16 May, 2012What I would tell Greece to do tomorrow if they asked - Simon Dixon presents three simple solutions for the financial crisis at the EBBF conference conference in London on excellence in banking. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ofV2QaXPxcE In his blog, Simon writes: If I was appointed to advise the new Greek parliament tomorrow, here is what I would advise [...]
Momentum Builds for Reform of Money System
9 May, 2012Positive News, 5th May 2012 published Ben Dyson's article: There is real momentum building in the movement to reform our privatised, debt-based money system. It’s been two years of hard work since we launched Positive Money, and encouragingly, we’re now seeing more and more economists recognising and talking about the ability that banks have to create [...]
We’re Hiring – Can You Help?
3 May, 2012We’re looking for the next full-time member of the Positive Money team. Can you help us to find them, or to fund the work they will do? There’s massive ignorance about where money comes from, how much of it is created, and where that money goes when it’s been created (into small businesses? - or [...]
News from USA – NEED Act
2 May, 2012Congressman Dennis Kucinich is a man who introduced last year in the US Congress the National Emergency Employment Defense Act of 2011, abbreviated NEED to resolve US growing financial crisis and achieve a just and sustainable money system. This bill contains all of the essential monetary measures being proposed by the American Monetary Institute in the American Monetary [...]
New Documentary Reveals the Roots of our Social and Economic Crisis
1 May, 2012New Documentary Released - Watch Below... 97% Owned is a brand new documentary about the problems with our debt-based privatised money system. It features frank interviews and comments from Positive Money, The New Economics Foundation, PRIME, Paul Moore HBOS Whistle Blower, Simon Dixon of Bank to the Future and Nick Dearden from Jubliee Debt Campaign. [...]
How Does Current Banking System Affect YOU? (video)
26 April, 2012What does the current banking system mean for housing, debt, inequality, jobs, businesses and taxes? Ben Dyson, speaking at Just Banking Conference on 20th April in Edinburgh (19 mins): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmKkwrSr49s [sws_toggle3 title="Video Transcript"] At the INET conference - the Institute for New Economic Thinking - which was in Berlin last week, one of the [...]
Influence of Banking on Growth and Instability (video)
23 April, 2012Josh Ryan Collins, Senior Researcher at the New Economics Foundation and co-author of “Where does money come from?” was speaking at Just Banking Conference on 20th April about the banking system, and its influence on growth and financial instability. (25 mins) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1XWDAKI9NE&feature=relmfu It's really important for campaigning organisations, if we're trying to change this system, to really understand this [...]