Showing posts with label banking system. Show all posts
Showing posts with label banking system. Show all posts
10 December 2012

Understanding Money

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Many people are seeking to understand how the money system works and looking for answers on websites and in books. My own journey of disco...
22 October 2012

IMF Study Supports Public Money Creation

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My post earlier this month reporting that Adair Turner, one of the front runners for the post of Governer of the Bank of England, has sug...
23 September 2012

Financial Ignorance a Sinn

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The next step on the rocky road of the Eurozone crisis is the financial union, proposed by Barroso last weekend. The proposal for a banki...
16 June 2011

Chancellor Fails to Separate Retail and Commercial Banking

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The loudest call for reform following the failure of the banking system in 2008 was that the risky activities undertaken by investment banks...
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30 October 2010

Follow the money

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Any intelligent observer who was paying attention must have learned since 2008 that the money system is the trick that facilitates the contr...
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16 September 2010

Capitalists Defend Capital Against the Banks?

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Now here is something you didn't expect to see: a link from my blog to a Conservative one. Although, given the recent suggestions that I...
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5 August 2010

Laughing all the way . . .

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So the banks are in profit again, and this is apparently a cause for celebration. The number of questions being begged by the mainstream med...
20 July 2010

One Law for the Rich . . .

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One of the greatest benefits of an academic life is that it forces you to keep in contact with academics from across the world so that you k...
24 March 2010

Vote for the Original Red Robbo

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Robert Owen was a paradox. A self-made millionnaire entrepreneur who is considered to be the father of co-operation. A pioneer of mutualism,...
2 July 2009

Commons Sense and Market Mayhem

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As must have become clear by now I am not a loyal aficionado of the school of holy writ when it comes to economic theory. However, I am inte...
21 January 2009

Starting to Feel Queasey

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There is considerable discussion in green circles these days about whether we should support the nationalisation of the banks. We need to be...
17 January 2009

No, no, no

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Margaret Thatcher was not a politician whose reputation was built on her facility to produce a well-turned phrase. She was famous for employ...
9 October 2008

'Let Finance Be Primarily National'

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In recent weeks we have probably all looked back wistfully to the days of John Maynard Keynes. It just feels like a world where stability wa...
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7 October 2008

Credit crunch for breakfast?

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This is obviously a cereal that will run and run. Robert Peston reports that he expected the banks to be too proud to ask for government mon...
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4 October 2008

Bush is laughing all the way

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George W. Bush has been the most successful president of the US I can remember. He came to office with specific objectives, aiming to serve ...
20 April 2008

Our national bank lies in ruins

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The Bank of England is actually misnamed. This name suggests a bank that works for the benefit of the citizens of England. This is not its r...
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18 March 2008

You only give me your funny paper

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The really mysterious thing about the operation of central banks around the world is how they can - as if by magic - 'inject' money ...
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13 December 2007

Political, not banking, crisis

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The world's central banks have made it easier for the world's commercial banks to increase the amount of debt circulating around the...
19 November 2007

Currency for the Little Big Man

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I've often been surprised by the many and varied radical economic initiatives coming out the USA which I have, in my Chauvanistic way, c...
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20 September 2007

Dramatic Demise of King

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Journalists who are referring to the appearance of Mervyn King before the Treasury Select Committee later today as 'theatre' are fo...