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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, …
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 …
A History of Sovereign Money Proposals from Patrizio Laina
Patrizio Laina, a PhD candidate at the University of Helsinki, has written a short but very comprehensive overview of the history of …
Promises, Promises: A History of Debt (BBC Radio)
Anthropologist David Graeber has explored the ways debt has shaped society over 5,000 years in the BBC Radio 4 Series. Here you can …
Dave Fishwick creates banking history
David Fishwick’s “tiny bank” is the model of banking the world should move towards in the wake of the devastating financial crisis of 2008, …
A Brief History of Credit Cards
For decades, credit cards have been a means by which large banks have loaned money to poor people at interest rates approaching infinity, …
"Hyperinflation, famine and bloodshed" – Twisting History to Preserve the Status Quo
On Monday 22 October 2012, we alerted our readers to a very interesting article which was published that day in the Daily …
The Important Lesson from the History – Exactly the Same Trick
For 160 years or so, our leaders have suppressed and ignored the important lesson to be learned from the history of banknotes. Banknotes …