The notion of creating new money and giving it in equal share to the citizens of the UK may sound ridiculous, but this article by Mehdi Hasan in The Huffington Post explains that the idea isn’t as radical as it sounds. For an economy to thrive money must be available and mobile so creating and…
Russell Brand And The Tooting Popular Front
Over the last couple of days my Facebook page has been plastered with posts and comments about Russell Brand’s interview with Jeremy Paxman, which has left me a bit perplexed because there was nothing remotely illuminating in Russell’s rant. His frustration with our dysfunctional political and economic systems is genuine and understandable but if he had…
Here’s some good news: economics students demanding that they get taught stuff about the real world instead of the nonsense that’s been gospel for the last 40 years.
Those of you who suspect that our politicians (Salmond, Swinney, Cameron, Osborne, Miliband, Balls, etc.) are clueless when it comes to sorting out our economy please watch Ben Dyson explaining how our money system actually works. Then you’ll understand why no-one from left, right, centre, or independent Scotland will be able to save us from…
Why don’t we have a Dylan Ratigan anywhere in our mainstream media? What a breath of fresh air. Watch this and be inspired.
Pensions In An Independent Scotland: A Waste Of White Paper.
I have just read through the Scottish Government’s white paper entitled “Pensions in an independent Scotland – September 2013”. If you’re too busy to read it for yourself I can summarise it’s contents as: “don’t worry, we’re going to keep everything the same as it is in the rest of the UK with the exception…
The End Of Britain: Scaremongering Nonsense From MoneyWeek
I made the mistake today of listening to a “video” from MoneyWeek entitled “The End of Britain”. Adverts for it had been cropping up regularly in the MoneyWeek daily email so, even though it looked suspiciously like they were trying to sell me something I sat through it and was appalled at the quality of…
Universal Basic Income: Why Not?
Here’s a video that introduces the idea of a Universal Basic Income. Many of you will be deeply suspicious of the concept. I certainly was when I first thought about it while researching my book. I was looking for solutions to the problem of how to recycle money through the productive economy, which is an…
Scottish Independence: Money And An Elephant
Here’s a video that gives a simple explanation of how money might work in an independent Scotland. Sadly the makers of the video fail to acknowledge the elephant in the room, a creature that’s going to make a mess of the carpet regardless of which of the three options we choose. All three choices in the video…
Take a few minutes to listen to Bruce Davis telling us about how to take control of our spare money. Don’t “save”, invest. You might not want to invest in the same stuff that he does but it shows us that things can change, are changing, in the money world.