Position paper from Ons Geld following the WRR report "Money and debt" In its report "Money and debt" the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) calls for a safe-haven for book money. In this position paper, we propose to shape this safe-haven as a public depository offering personal full reserve accounts on the basis of which market participants - banks and non-bank...

We are excited to share some success stories from our national member organizations around the world. Our movement is definitely making great progress and it is encouraging to hear the big and small steps to a money system that serves people and planet. Netherlands: Ons Geld, by Edgar Wortmann In the last months, we invested much time in contacting political parties. This is be...

At the conference "The Future of Money - Central Bank Digital Currency and Beyond" on June 15, 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden, central bank digital currency (CBDC) and the planned launch of an e-krona were critically scrutinized by academics, central bankers, bankers and monetary reform initiatives.Why central bank digital currency?The declining use of cash in everyday payments was the start...

The goal of a sovereign money reform is to place the money creation into the hands of a public institution that serves the public interest. However, there are still many different design options how to implement this, i.e. what instruments should be used to steer the money supply or if the payment system should be run by the state or private payment providers. To bring more clarity to th...

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 the meeting took place in Madrid, Spain, where we enjoyed a blue sky and spring-blooming, although most of the time was spent indoors listening, sharing and discussing. We started the meeting in a circle where we got to know each ...

As a response to the WRR report "Money and debt" a magazine for economics teachers (TEO) presented some questions to Ons Geld. Both these questions and the answers are presented below. In "Money and debt: the public task of banks", the WRR makes various recommendations (especially to politicians) about our monetary system. For example, the council argues for more diversity in the fin...