Is world-leading NHS healthcare an affordable proposition?
21 November, 2017This article, co-authored by our supporter David Laws, appeared originally on the Progressive Pulse website: Authors: David Laws, Consultant Anaesthetist, City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear, SR4 7TP Professor Charles S. Adams, Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE Introduction: The unquestioned assertion that a highly developed currency-issuing nation [...]
“No rate rise without a pay rise” protest at the Bank of England
4 November, 2017On Thursday 2nd November, the Bank of England was supposed to announce its decision on raising interest rates. Wages aren’t keeping up with the cost of living. Most people haven’t had a pay rise for a decade and we’re experiencing the longest period of wage stagnation since the eighteenth century. The government’s squeeze on pay [...]
Youth network training
20 October, 2017What? A day of participatory training in presentation and campaigning skills. When? Friday 10th November 10:30am - 5:00pm Where? The University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD Who? 30 other young supporters of Positive Money. 3 staff members from the office team. Why? Young people in the UK are faced with increasingly daunting futures. Where [...]
UK Household Debt has Reached Unsustainable Levels (Video)
9 October, 2017Consumer and student debt in the UK have reached unprecedented levels and are a warning that austerity could lead to a new financial crisis, explains Positive Money's economist Edward Smythe in this interview for The Real News:
Is a crisis looming for central banks? (Video)
28 July, 2017On Tuesday, July 18th, we held our biggest ever event in Parliament in collaboration with the think tank New City Agenda. Lord Adair Turner (former chairman of the Financial Services Authority) Anthony Hilton (Senior Commentator at the Evening Standard) and Positive Money’s director Fran Boait debated the problems facing our money system and the radical [...]
Bank of England is alarmed about the increase of personal debt
26 July, 2017The Bank of England has been warned of complacency over the big rise in personal debt. In its toughest warning yet about the possibility of a rerun of the financial crisis that devastated the economy 10 years ago, the Bank of England admitted it was alarmed about the increase in the amount of money being borrowed on easy terms [...]
Which MPs understand the magic money tree?
14 July, 2017For years we’ve been saying it’s crucial our politicians understand where money comes from - that banks create almost all money in our economy, resulting in an oversized financial sector and property bubbles. Now we have a chance to see how effective the Positive Money campaign’s been by finding out what MPs know today. If we move quickly, [...]
Can the UK afford to end austerity? (Video)
11 July, 2017Watch Positive Money's director Fran Boait discussing if we can afford to end austerity on SkyNews: "What do we want the future of the UK economy look like? To date we depended on the oversized bloated financial sector and a property bubble to keep the economy going... We've had policies like the Bank of England [...]
New paper calls for digital cash implementation in the Eurozone
10 July, 2017Today, the Dutch NGO Ons Geld (“Our Money”), published a thought-provoking paper outlining how a digital cash scheme – a virtual euro – could fundamentally improve the money system in the Eurozone. Ons Geld is the Dutch counterpart of Positive Money focused on monetary reform. Positive Money first proposed digital cash in 2016, a concept which has since gained a [...]