banking

Submission on Evaluation of Community Banking and Local Provision of Banking and Financial Services in Ireland

Feasta Currency Group members believe that community (or public) banking could form a central component of a healthy future Irish economy. There is an urgent need to expand this sector in Ireland in order to help protect the Irish economy from debt-related financial risk, stimulate community development and help bring about the transition to a growth-neutral financial sector.

Co-Ops & Credit Unions – A Governance Crisis?

Just when the implications of 'over-professionalising' banking and allowing an overpaid clique of casino-managers to screw up the real economy are becoming clear to the masses, we are being encouraged to think we can't do without them. If this rearguard action succeeds, the opportunity for innovation - for example in the capital financing of energy projects - will be lost. By Graham Barnes.

The Cabal

The financial world has out-stripped the real world. Our current economic crisis is too good an opportunity to miss since it allows radical action to be taken.

In the world, at the limits to growth

We imagine Ireland is in crisis, yet crisis is relative. Most people in the world would envy our material austerity and be thankful for our endlessly 'collapsing' health service. But with our expectations thwarted and in the anxiety of uncertainty, we are focussed inward. Yet we remain as deluded as ever.

MMT reaches the letter pages in the Financial Times

Letter to the Editor printed in the Financial Times 11th May 2011 From Mr Ralph Musgrave. "Sir, According to Martin Wolf, Lawrence Summers (Barack Obama’s former chief economic adviser) is not sure whether an “expansionary fiscal contraction” is expansionary" [...]

Different Roads to Recovery – March 19th

Conference at University College Cork which includes a seminar with Richard Douthwaite of Feasta

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