On 7th September 2015 Positive Money hosted an event " Making Money Work: can innovations in monetary policy promote long-term prosperity?", …
Options for Banking Reform
Reform 101: Why do we want to redefine money? (Post 1)
There are a number of problems with our current monetary system, in which the vast majority of money is created by banks, when they make …
Sovereign Money – Common Critiques
There are a number of common objections and concerns with the proposal to switch to a sovereign money system. Here we deal with the 3 areas …
Banks can be stripped of money creation power without starving economy of credit (New Report)
Positive Money has today released a report showing that stripping the banking sector of its ability to create money, a proposal endorsed by …
The big bank boondoggle* (New Internationalist)
"No single measure is more likely to restore some sanity to finance than withdrawing from private banks their licence to print money", reads …
Douglas Carswell on Question Time: Rein in banks’ ability to create credit
This week has seen the UK’s major banks begin a concerted fight-back against regulation intended to make the banking system safer. And …
Iceland’s Sovereign Money Proposal: A Response to Bill Mitchell
In a two-part blog post, Bill Mitchell recently used the publication of the Icelandic paper on Sovereign Money to set out his position on …
A common misconception: Positive Money does not advocate any centralised decision making with regards to loans
In a recent blog post, Richard Murphy makes a number of points about our Sovereign Money proposals. In the post there was a common …
A Response to Richard Murphy’s Concerns
Tax campaigner and writer Richard Murphy outlines his concerns with Positive Money's proposals to prevent banks from creating money here. …