Throughout history, Public Money Creation has been the norm, rather than the exception. What can we learn about money creation …
Economic Analysis, Theory
Recovery in the Eurozone, Using Money Creation to Stimulate the Real Economy (NEW Report)
Positive Money has today released a report showing that the European Central Bank’s Quantitative Easing programme will fail to deliver the …
Bank robbery as part of a system
‘Bank Robbery’ is not a book about how to rob a bank, it’s about how banks rob us; not primarily for their own benefit, but as …
Hyperinflation: How the Wrong Lessons were Learned from Weimar and Zimbabwe (A History of Public Money Creation Part 2 of 8)
Did you know that most economists don't really know what actually happened in the periods of hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic and …
Public Money Creation – Neither Right nor Left, Just the Way Forward
Jeremy Corbyn’s proposal for ‘People’s Quantitative Easing’ has helped get the debate on money creation into the mainstream. On the one …
Does Public Money Creation always lead to hyperinflation? It didn’t in Britain (A History of Public Money Creation 1 of 8)
Throughout history, governments have used their ability to create money to fund public spending. While none of these policies were called, …
Historical examples of Sovereign Money Creation
Using money creation to increase aggregate demand is not a new idea. In fact it has been advocated by some of the 20th century’s most famous …
Radical New Central-Bank Thinking? The Case for Monetary Finance (by Adair Turner)
The International Monetary Fund has held its sixteenth annual Jacques Polak Research Conference on 5-6 November 2015. The …
Can public money creation work? Some answers from Canadian history
The theoretical and policy arguments for monetary reform are becoming more accepted by economists and establishment figures. The …