The age of digital money by Joseph Huber In technical terms the new era is about the digitisation of money. Digital money is any transferable currency unit in the numerical form of binary digits that are processed electronically. Until some years ago, digital money just referred to cryptocurrencies. Their emergence has triggered the entire hype surrounding anything 'digital'. In the me...

Dominant currency and dominant money by Joseph Huber The approach of dominant money as outlined in this paper has in a way been inspired by theories about the internationally dominant currency as deve­loped in recent years by Gopinath and colleagues, Eichengreen and, prior to them, Hudson.[1] Those theories deal with the dominant role of the US dollar in today's international currency ...

On Monday 2 December 2019, a group of NGOs including Positive Money Europe met with the new President of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde to hand over a letter calling on the ECB to accelerate its efforts in the fight against climate change. Lagarde subsequently confirmed climate change will be in the agenda of the ECB’s review next year. The meeting, which took place place...

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 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...