Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

    What do you think needs to change in finance? You have an opportunity to let us know your opinion in a survey below. There was a remarkable conference in USA last week and the video presentations are available now. The Transforming Finance conference is happening in London next week. And Positive Money is looking …

A Major Opportunity for Friends of the American Monetary Institute

kristyReforming Global Finance

Dear Friends of the American Monetary Institute, We now face a major opportunity its important to respond to. Across the country thousands of Americans, young and old, are demonstrating around the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago, and Boston; Wall Street in NY and ever more places, linked to below. Among …

For This Generation The Icb Is Missing A Significant Opportunity

kristyReforming Global Finance

Serious proposals and practices relating to money creation are not new and they are international, deserving of a full appraisal. Interested people, who have followed the work of the Commission, see a missing dimension in the reform of money itself. In its terms of reference, in the context of a …

Some Great Quotes and Great Conference on Monetary Reform

Ethical MarketsReforming Global Finance

14 November 2010 Beginning of a monetary revolution? Josh Ryan-Collins Researcher, Monetary Reform Mervyn King and Martin Wolf know it and the word is spreading about the bank’s dirty secret – their power to create credit out of nothing and mix it up with our savings… “The essence of the …

Banking: From Bagehot to Basel, and Back Again

kristyReforming Global Finance

Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, October 25, 2010 “Banking: From Bagehot to Basel, and Back Again” speech to the Buttonwood Gathering, New York City During The Economist’s Buttonwood Gathering, Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, criticized the performance of Britain’s banks throughout the 2008-2009 crisis …