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  • 9 Jan 2013
    The trillion dollar coin

    There is an idea gaining ground in the US which sounds absurd, but which perhaps simply highlights the absurdity of something we now consider normal.

  • 3 Jan 2012
    The 'conspiracy of silence' around banks' creation of money
    There is an excellent letter in today's Financial Times from James Skinner, a trustee of the New Economics Foundation, referring to the 'conspiracy of silence' surrounding the creation of money by commercial banks.
  • 17 Nov 2011
    The case for publicly-created 'free' money

    Every day it seems that Europe sinks deeper and deeper into a pit of debt, with one country after another finding the interest rates demanded on its borrowings climbing ever higher.