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Published in: Home: InvestigationRevealed: Facebook still allowing ‘unauthorised’ wealth scheme advertsVulnerable people are losing money to the ‘infinite income’ scheme, while authorities fail to act
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Published in: TransformationWhat happens to democracy in a cashless society?New technology is transforming the way we pay for everything, but at what cost?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDoes money grow on trees?The debate about the banks' power to create money is becoming much more mainstream. After the recent event, Does...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy we can’t leave the power to create money in the hands of banks or regulatorsWe cannot rely on failed regulators to prevent banks from abusing the power to create money, as Ann Pettifor suggests.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKJust Money, introductionIn this exclusive extract from Just Money: How Society Can Break the Despotic Power of Finance Ann Pettifor...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe IMF – our sleeping beauty?Finance has cast a spell on the framework for international economic co-operation established after the Second World...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKReuniting the monetary union: a proposal to counter the eurozone’s imbalances
Persistent trade imbalances are threatening to derail the European economy. Luca Fantacci calls for a European...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFinancial repression - myth, metaphor and reality“Financial repression” always casts state regulators as authoritarian villains and allows apologists for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUnderstanding and confronting financialisationThe growth of finance over the last forty years has changed capitalism profoundly. It is time for its critics to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKShadow banking, or why black holes are important in the global financial system
The shadow banking sector is now integral to the global financial system. Its architects are constantly seeking to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Keen-Krugman debateThe debate between these two economists on the role of banking and specifically the creation of credit is of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhose money is it?Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Money is currently produced by a ‘public-private partnership’...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWe can end the despotism of finance, at a priceTo mark the publication of Ann Pettifor's e-book, Just Money: How Society Can Break the Despotic Power of Finance,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBuilding Creative Commons: the five pillars of Open Source Finance
We may be in the early phase of a slow-moving revolution, which will only be perceptible in hindsight. As projects...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFrankenstein's bankers - the tale every taxpayer should knowIt is now 5 years since the banking crash but its effects are still with us. What exactly happened, what has the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCan the Bristol Pound bring us all together?The recession has caused a great deal of strife across Europe, but what innovative new strategies should we be...
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Published in: openEconomyIs inflation a good tax? Can we have an honest political discussion about it?
UK inflation at 5% is considered almost a victory by the economic managers of the nation. Yet it is a blunt...
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Published in: openEconomyWill fiat currencies survive?
Money that is entirely created by government fiat celebrated its 40th birthday this summer. Are the inflation hawks...
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Published in: openEconomyMoney, public debt and the Euro: defences against fragmentation
Roger Scruton (Unreal Estates) argues for a remoralised economy in response to Europe's debt crisis. But this is...
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Published in: openEconomyA return to financial health is simple: Glass Steagall plus transparency
Financial regulation in the wake of the credit crisis is a simpler matter than the re-moralising advocated by Roger...
