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Economics

Nicole Omotoye: How Netflix hit ‘Bank of Dave’ shows banks could work for people and community, not profit

February 27, 2023 Ben Wray 0

A new Netflix series dramatises the story of Dave Fishwick, who’s ambition is to take on the City of London and open the first local bank in 150 years. Nicole Omotoye works as a Campaigner […]

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Finance

Chloe Musto – Concerns Raised over Vested Interests of Lords Pushing for Financial Deregulation

January 24, 2023 David Shirreff 0

All UK Peers voicing support for measures to deregulate the City have ties to financial services Chloe Musto is Media and Campaigns Officer at Positive Money Cross-posted from Positive Money Debate over the government’s new […]

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Economics

Martha Dillon – We need more than new homes: New census data confirms UK building stock is growing faster than population

January 18, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The widespread notion that there is simply not enough houses being built is ignorant of the facts. You can’t tackle the housing crisis without tackling the liberalisation of the housing market. Cross-posted from Positive Money […]

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Fran Boait, Jeevun Sandher, Katie Kedward: Civil society response to the proposed Energy Markets Financing Scheme (EMFS)

October 14, 2022 Ben Wray 0

In this letter, Fran Boait, Executive Director at Positive Money, Jeevun Sandher, Head of Economics at the New Economics Foundation, and Katie Kedward, Policy Fellow in Sustainable Finance at the UCL Institute for Innovation and […]

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Nicola Omotoye, Zack Livingstone – #HotStrikeSummer: Why people are turning to unions to fight back against the cost of living crisis

August 19, 2022 Ben Wray 0

The strike wave in the UK is a rare source of hope Cross-posted from Positive Money “Ask yourself, do you agree that women should have maternity leave? Do you agree that you need health and […]

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Positive Money: The ECB’s plan to “normalise” monetary policy is worse than unclear

April 28, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

The ECB keeps repeating that it is on a path of monetary policy “normalisation”. But what is behind this phrase and why does the ECB like it so much? I argue that it currently functions […]

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Climate Crisis

Positive Money – Post COVID: Big corporations dominate government’s Build Back Better council

January 19, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is being replicated in the EU By Hannah Dewhirst, Campaigner at Positive Money Cross-posted from Positive Money The government’s new Build Back Better council – meant to help the UK recover from the impact […]

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Economics

Jason Hickel – Apartheid in the World Bank and the IMF

January 8, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

These institutions were designed with colonial principles in mind, and they remain largely colonial in character to this day. Jason Hickel is an academic at the University of London and a Fellow of the Royal […]

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Economics

Brett Scott – Supermarkets are Promoting Unscientific Anti-Cash Propaganda. And the Banking Sector is Loving It

September 2, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

While science suggests that PIN pads are more dangerous than cash, the retail sector continues to spread fear about it. Is this just a naive mistake, or are there darker motives? Brett Scott is an […]

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Positive Money – The Revolving Door between Government & Finance must Slam Shut

August 19, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Ooops…They did it again. Former British Chancellor Sajid Javid’s new job at JP Morgan, marks yet another swing in the revolving door between our biggest financial and political institutions – one that desperately needs slamming […]

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The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington

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Book Review by Michael Roberts Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington are authors of The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilises our Governments and Warps our Economies.  They launched their book with […]

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When McKinsey comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanovitch and Michael Forsythe

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Book Review by Roger Steer In January 2021 Brave New Europe published “The Americanisation of European Healthcare” which was my attempt to describe the forces at work to change the way healthcare is delivered in […]

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