On Money: The Libra versus Sovereignty
A US-based progressive monthly, The Nation, just published an article about the Libra by MMT enthusiast Rohan Grey, titled: “Facebook Wants Its Own Currency. That Should Scare Us All. Instead
Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism
In 2011 I took a sociology class on global social problems. Three texts were required and one of them, Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism by Richard Robbins, stood
The Coming Monetary Transformation: Revolution or Evolution?
By Joe Bongiovanni. Surely the answer to that question must depend on your personal views, like beauty – lying in the eye of the beholder. But your particular answer matters
The Major Problems with Bank Money Creation
By Tim Di Muzio. Any complex civilization will organize itself using some form of technology and as Polanyi noted in The Great Transformation, all will have some type of economy.
The Necessity for Monetary Reform and a Just System of Money
By Nick Egnatz. A human population of 7.7 billion people has put a tremendous stress on Mother Earth. Our need for energy has caused us to indiscriminately pump carbon into
Tapas! Great company! Talk about money!
I was fortunate to attend the member meeting of The International Movement for Monetary Reform (IMMR) held in Madrid, March 29-31, 2019. Five of us shared an Airbnb a few
IMMR Annual Meeting 2019: Better Together
By Runa Bonnichsen Jørgensen, Gode Penge [Denmark]. The International Movement for Monetary Reform (IMMR) gathered members from across the world for its annual meeting on the 22-24th March 2019. This year
Focusing on the Top
By Howard M. Switzer. We all feel the urgency of change but the constant stress and distractions keep us scattered. How can we pull ourselves together into an extraordinary collaboration
My experience at the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV) Summit.
By Bo-Young Lim. Recently, I attended a 2-day gathering of 600 people from all over the world for a summit in Vancouver Canada — many bankers, regulators and economists. The
A Primer on the Monetary System and Why It Should Be Reformed
With so much money around, why isn’t money available for better streets, roads and bridges? Why isn’t it available to city and rural school districts to provide their children with