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Martha Dillon: The risks and rewards of AI in the housing system

August 21, 2023 Ben Wray 0

AI is changing the way we manage homes and buildings. While AI could have positive effects on housing, it could also speed up its financialisation. Martha Dillon is Housing Policy Lead at Positive Money. Her […]

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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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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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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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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

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Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

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