The UK’s decoupling delusion: Have we really divorced economic growth and carbon emissions?
17 February 2020
The claim that the UK economy has undergone an absolute decoupling of economic growth from carbon emissions is making the rounds, and is being used to justify a ‘green growth’ narrative. But absolute …
Poll shows central banks most trusted for digital currencies: Positive Money response
5 February 2020
Fran Boait, executive director of Positive Money, has welcomed an OMFIF/Ipsos MORI survey published today which found that central banks are more trusted to issue digital currencies than payments serv …
Bank of England babies: interest rates and births in post-crisis Britain
28 January 2020
New research from the Bank of England finds that interest rate cuts in response to the 2007-08 crisis boosted the UK’s birth rate. Yet the same cannot be said of monetary policy’s impact on investment …
Bank Robbery
20 January 2020
Published today, the new book ‘Bank Robbery’ by Ivo Mosley, sets out some of the damaging results of banks creating our money supply. In this guest blog he describes some of the basics of that process …
Our money and banking system is driving inequality
16 January 2020
This year’s Fat Cat Day – the day in the year when an average FTSE 100 CEO earns just as much as the typical employee does in a whole year – was Monday 6th January. Meaning it took just three working …