The Bank of England’s quantitative easing programme risks prompting a catastrophic loss of public trust in how the UK economy is managed, …
Power & Democracy
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. …
What the Politicians Really Aren’t Talking About?
As the UK general election is nearly upon us, many commentators are highlighting the important issues that the majority of …
UK parliament to debate money creation for first time in 170 years
UK Parliament will hold a three hour debate on the issue of ‘Money Creation and Society’ on Thursday 20th November. This will be the first …
How pacifists may be funding the arms industry
Under the current monetary system customer deposits provide banks with a cheap source of central bank reserves, which are required to make …
Could the “TTIP” give banks an opportunity to block monetary reform?
An international trade deal is being negotiated that could – in theory - give large international banks an opportunity to sue …
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 …
Common sense for our times
Slavery strikes us as abhorrent as well as illegal, it is seen as the very essence of man’s inhumanity to man. However, not many life times …
UK banks benefited from £38bn ‘too big to fail’ state subsidy
Britain's biggest banks benefited from a "too big to fail" subsidy from the taxpayer of £38bn last year, according to a leading …