(Guest Post by Richard Boulton) "Are Britain's banks too big to save?" was the question Robert Peston set himself in his investigation last …
Options for Banking Reform
The Basel Accords & Mark to Market
Basel Capital Accords The underlying basis of our modern-day banking system is based on fractional reserve banking. If a bank has say …
Prospects for 2011
Let's get the bad news out of the way first. (Don't worry - there's good news to follow!). The Bad News We're about to start feeling the …
Positive Money’s Submission to the Independent Banking Commission
Positive Money, nef (the new economics foundation), and Professor Richard Werner of the University of Southampton, have just made a joint …
Democratising Money, from the New Economics Foundation
Josh Ryan-Collins from the leading independent economic think-tank, the New Economics Foundation, has written a very good article on the …