On Friday 21st I saw Lord Adair Turner speaking at a high-profile conference at the London School of Economics. The title was simply …
Financial Crisis, Global Situation
Where money comes from and why it matters
Six years have passed since the financial crash of 2008. Since then there has been a parade of books explaining how it happened. We’ve …
A Scottish Currency? – 5 Lessons from the Design Flaws of Pound Sterling
In September 2014, Scotland will hold a referendum to decide whether to separate from the UK. A major question concerns which currency an …
Hair of the dog risks a bigger hangover for Britain (FT)
Does the UK have a sensible strategy for recovery? Just recall: the last time it tried the credit-expansion route to growth, it ended up in …
How to fix the creation of money?
It seems clear that our banking system is fundamentally dysfunctional, yet for all the millions of words of analysis in the press and …
Enough is enough (Full Film)
We’re overusing the earth’s finite resources, and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. "Enough Is Enough" lays out a …
News from Italy: Book containing Positive Money reform proposals is a bestseller
About two months ago a book was published in Italy that has an entire chapter dedicated to monetary reforms, specifically Positive Money's …
Lord Turner: It’s private debt that got us into this mess
There are some good comments from Lord Adair Turner, former Chairman of the Financial Services Authority in the interview on BBC Radio 4 …
Campaign for Monetary Reform – News from Switzerland
The organisation for Monetary Reform in Switzerland, MoMo - short for Monetäre Modernisiering meaning Modernising Money - has recently …