The Bank of England (BoE) has just announced its new monetary stimulus package. By lowering interest rates and expanding quantitative …
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Digital Cash & Your Privacy
Since we released our paper Digital Cash, which proposes that members of the public should be able to hold an electronic version of notes …
Adair Turner’s New Book: Between Debt and the Devil
Adair Turner became the chairman of the UK’s Financial Services Authority the day after Lehman Brothers collapsed. He was one of the most …
Parliament Debate on Money Creation & Society (Video)
Watch the debate "Money Creation & Society" that took place on Thursday 20th November in the House of Commons: The recording is …
Positive Money in the Press
How Quantitative Easing Works
[first]Most of the money in our economy is created by banks when they make loans. But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, banks …
Adair Turner: “Debt, Money and Mephistopheles: How do we get out of this mess?”
On the 6th of February, the chairman of the FSA, Adair Turner, gave a speech at Cass Business School, entitled “Debt, Money and …
A return to Sovereign Money?
If someone told you that the vast majority of the US’s private and public debts could be wiped out via a fairly painless piece of …
Full Reserve Banking Is No Bailout
A recent blog by Frances Coppola describes full-reserve banking as ‘the largest bank bailout in history’. In the interests of mutual …