One of the common objections to the proposal to switch to a Sovereign Monetary System is: "This is a monetarist policy." Anyone who …
Options for Banking Reform
Explaining monetary reform by using typical misunderstandings
As sovereign-money reform has been gaining more attention, more economists from various schools of thought have felt called upon to comment …
9 Benefits of Switching to a Sovereign Money system
The power to create money, in the hands of commercial banks, has been highlighted as one of the root causes of both the Great Depression of …
Positive Money at The People’s Parliament
On Wednesday 25th of June, Ben Dyson was joined by Professor Tim Jackson, Ann Pettifor and Dr Anastasia Nesvetailova in the Houses of …
Why we disagree with Ann Pettifor
A couple of months ago, Positive Money's proposals to reform the creation of money were featured by Martin Wolf (the chief economics …
How to waste £445 billion? – The Failure of Quantitative Easing (VIDEO)
In 2010 the governmentcancelled a program to rebuild 715schools, because they'd run out of money. But at the sametime the Bank of England …
Sovereign Money will strengthen Democracy and Private Property
Cash is disappearing. It is being replaced by electronic money which is just numbers in computers and other electronic devices. The joke is …
Former FSA boss Lord Turner close to arguing for debt-free money creation
[first]Lord Turner, former chairman of the Financial Services Authority, is moving ever closer to advocating that the state should issue …
Why we can’t leave the power to create money in the hands of banks or regulators (Open Democracy)
We cannot rely on failed regulators to prevent banks from abusing the power to create money, reads the article by Ben Dyson in Open …