Peter Verity (guest author)

Fixing Our Broken Economy

15 February, 2012
  Explaining the Positive Money proposals is not always straightforward – to do it thoroughly you need to explain how banking works, what problems this causes, and what the solution is. That’s a lot for someone to take in! Sometimes you wish there was something you could give them to take away and read. The pamphlet is designed [...]

Heart Transplant for our Ailing Economy

20 July, 2011
  In the spring, the Banking Commission published its interim report. So what will it achieve? Not much it seems, and the banks are breathing a sigh of relief - bank shares shot up the day the report was published, adding £1bn to the value of the top three banks. The proposed ‘firewall’ around investment [...]

Is Evil the Root of All Money?

4 June, 2011
As spending cuts begin to bite, we need to ask what is wrong with our economic system that has caused it to fail so badly. All developed economies are struggling with the twin problems of reducing national debt, and recovering from economic recession. The UK is making deep spending cuts, amid concerns that it will [...]