Together with colleagues spanning four parties – Michael Meacher (Lab), Caroline Lucas (Green), Douglas Carswell (UKIP) and David Davis (Con) – I have secured a debate on Money Creation and Society for Thursday 20 November. Here’s a quick guide to understanding the debate. First, we have a system of paper or […]
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Speech to Positive Money on money and banking
A speech on money and banking given to Positive Money’s conference last October (sorry about the cold!): See also my writing on economics here and for The Cobden Centre.
Read MoreSpeaking notes from Positive Money conference yesterday
I opened the Positive Money conference yesterday, explaining the wide range of damaging flaws in our monetary system, how these have emerged and what the range of potential solutions might be. As I have often said, I favour the constitutionalisation of our present fiat money system, followed by the denationalisation […]
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Today, Cobden Centre comrades and I are off to inject some Austrianism into the Positive Money conference. As you can tell from the Cobden Centre’s literature page, we are not afraid to work with other schools of thought — there are significant areas of overlap. For example, from the conference home […]
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