{"id":4121,"date":"2016-04-08T19:53:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T17:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monneta.org\/en\/?p=4121"},"modified":"2016-04-10T16:09:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T14:09:57","slug":"positive-money-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monneta.org\/en\/positive-money-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive Money Campaign, UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Positive Money <\/a>describes itself as “the UK branch of a global movement to democratise money so that it works for<\/strong> society and not against it.<\/em>” It was started by blogger and author Ben Dyson<\/a> in the wake of the finance crisis of 2008.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

There were two or three fringe groups campaigning for monetary reform in the UK for a couple of decades before the finance crisis but they achieved relatively little.<\/p>\n

Positive Money brilliantly uses short videos and social media to put out its basic message to a much wider audience. It argues there is a fundamental problem<\/strong> with our monetary system:<\/p>\n

Right now most of the money in our economy is created by banks. Banks create<\/a> up to 97% of money, in the form of the numbers in your bank account, when they make loans. This means that they effectively decide a) how much money there is in the economy, and b) where that money goes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The control of the creation of money, in the hands of banks, has contributed to the problems of:<\/p>\n