London, 11 September 2021 Responding to Which?’s findings, Simon Youel, head of policy and advocacy at Positive Money, said: “As banks …
Inequality
Bank of England appoint another Goldman Sachs alum: Positive Money response
London, 1 September 2021 Responding to the Bank of England’s appointment of Goldman Sachs alumnus Huw Pill as their new chief economist, …
The government-engineered housing boom will hold back the recovery
The UK housing market has become detached from the real economy. Far from ‘levelling up’, measures by the Treasury and the Bank of …
QE or not to QE? Soaring inequality shows it’s time for a new macroeconomic approach
If you just looked at property and financial markets, you’d be forgiven for thinking that we weren’t in the midst of a global …
Apartheid in the World Bank and IMF
These institutions were designed with colonial principles in mind, and they remain largely colonial in character to this …
New report: Where are the conditions for the Bank of England’s broken bailout scheme?
The government and the Bank of England are using a new scheme – the Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF) – to bail out the UK’s largest …
A reformed appointment process of the IMF director won’t cut it, the whole institution needs an overhaul
The EU’s finance ministers recently voted for Kristalina Georgieva, the Chief Executive of the World Bank, to take on the top job at the …
The most important public appointment of 2019: Our Letter to The Guardian
Positive Money’s view on the next Governor of the Bank of England What will the UK economy look like in 2028? It may seem like an …
Inequality & Mental Health: The Missing Link
Two things caught our attention this week. First off, Nobel prize-winning Economist Angus Deaton launched a review into inequality. …