After already making breakfast headlines in Reuters, City AM and Bloomberg, Positive Money launched our latest report, ‘Seeking Legitimacy: …
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Bank of England ‘Super Thursday’: Positive Money comment
Commenting on the Bank of England's unanimous decision to keep interest rates at 0.75%, Positive Money executive director Fran Boait …
One step closer to Digital Cash
We just moved one step closer to seeing Europe’s first general-use central bank digital currency, which could be implemented as soon as …
The History and Future of QE: 3 ways the Bank of England’s analysis falls short
As Positive Money likes to point out, quantitative easing (QE) is a policy almost without historical precedent. With only scant and rather …
Positive Money’s digital cash proposals find support in new Bank of England research
On Friday the Bank of England published new research concluding that a central bank digital currency (CBDC) would be compatible with, or …
US Federal Reserve ‘Might Legitimately Consider’ Public Money Creation
The Federal Reserve 'might legitimately consider’ using Public Money Creation in ‘extreme circumstances’, when there is ‘very weak growth’ …
Not My First Rodeo: Public Money Creation in the USA (A History of Public Money Creation, Part 7)
Despite popular rhetoric, the World’s biggest economy did use the state’s money creating powers to help boost output. Guess what, it didn’t …
Public money creation where you least expected it! (A history of public money creation Part 4)
Throughout history, Public Money Creation has been the norm, rather than the exception. What can we learn from money creation by the former …
Who are the Prominent Economists Working in the Financial Sector that Advocate a Different Type of QE?
Did you know that there are a number of prominent economists working in the financial sector that are in favour of a different type of …