One of our supporters Simon Davies has recently received a response from the Treasury to a letter he sent to George Osborne back in March. …
Bank of England & QE
Material Debt
It seems that dishing out free money is a cure for some ill's and not for others, or for some patients and not others. While the rest of the …
How failed banks on life support can grant humungous bonuses
In the May 21st edition of London's Evening Standard its financial editor Anthony Hilton laid into the Basel regulatory endorsement of …
The City and the Common Good – Good Money (video)
An interesting event took place on 7th May 2013 at St Pauls in London, organized by the St.Paul's Institute. At the seminar entitled "The …
Banks must deal in ‘real’ money to recover economy (video)
Ben Dyson, Founder and Director of Positive Money, spoke to the Information Daily about the financial crisis, increasingly desperate …
QE – one step closer to monetary reform?
When the BoE spends, for example, £10bn of newly created QE money to buy gilts from non-banks, both the central bank money and the …
It's Official: There Is a Money Tree
George Osborne, the British Chancellor, has publicly disagreed with his prime minister on a fundamental issue of monetary policy - in an …
FT: Hitch-hiker’s guide to monetary infrastructure
The Financial Times published an excellent letter from Prof Richard Werner, Chair in International Banking, School of Management, University …
Some Thoughts on QE
As Ben Dyson notes in his submission to the Treasury Committee on QE, Mervyn King is rather vague about exactly how the QE money enters into …