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The Banks Still Won't Lend Enough to Small Businesses
The banks – even those all but owned by us – still won't lend enough to small businesses. They must be forced to do so, according to …
Should We Expect a Decrease in Unemployment and Poverty?
Poverty is one of the most prominent problems of the entire world. Numerous measures have been taken world wide to reduce poverty but it is …
A Reality We Wouldn't Want to Live in
This article published in The Automatic Earth, 22nd August 2011 is quite long, but well worth reading, here is a short extract: It's a thin …
UK Household Finances Are 'Worse Than During Height of Recession'
Household budgets are deteriorating at a faster rate than during the height of the recession in early 2009, according to The Telegraph, 22 …
RBS Invests in Cluster Bombs
The Royal Bank of Scotland is one of the high-street banks that is investing hundreds of millions of pounds in companies that manufacture …
The Consequences of UK Household Debt
Daniyal is a researcher volunteering for Positive Money through the summer. He is working on the impact of the current banking system on …
Can Positive Money help fix a fatally flawed banking system?
An article was published in Ecologist, 17th August 2011, here is an extract: Banking reform might sound like something of a …
Would you credit it? How money is lent into existence
In Financial Times, 18th August 2011 there was published a letter from Dr. Michael Reiss: Sir, The phrase “credit crunch” has been …