Since 2010, the Quantitative Easing (QE) programme has pumped £445 billion into the UK’s banking system. While QE may have prevented the …
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A guide to public money creation: Outlining the Alternatives to Quantitative Easing
Despite a surge in growth in 2014, a number of issues still threaten the sustainability of the UK’s economic recovery: Global growth has …
Is our money and banking system working in the public interest? (Video)
On Monday 7th September 2015, Positive Money hosted a high-level panel discussion, “Making Money Work”, with Lord Adair Turner, Professor …
Money & Society free online course starts again in February 2016 (University of Cumbria)
Following the success of its first and second run, the University of Cumbria will re-run its Money & Society MOOC (Massive Online Open …
Dutch Parliament Hearing about Money Creation Sparks Debate
Positive Money’s Dutch sister organisation Ons Geld (Our Money) launched an initiative on the creation of money in January 2015. On April …
Public Money Creation – Neither Right nor Left, Just the Way Forward
Jeremy Corbyn’s proposal for ‘People’s Quantitative Easing’ has helped get the debate on money creation into the mainstream. On the one …
Making Money Work: can innovations in monetary policy promote long-term prosperity?
Earlier this week, Positive Money hosted the biggest discussion on the future of UK monetary policy since the election. Here’s a brief …
Socialism for the rich (Drawbacks of our current money system)
Private money creation: from crisis to crisis There are many reasons to change the current money system. To begin with, the current …
Money creation is a lucrative business for private banks
How is money created? Most people, including many economists, think that central banks and thus government creates our money. The …