Tag: debt
Rebel bank sells art to buy back Londoners’ debts
A combination of art and socially motivated stunt, HSCB is selling printed ‘banknotes’ to raise cash to buy back local people’s debt
Economics Society UK
‘Quantitative Easing for People’ could stimulate the economy without risking financial meltdown
Money creation programmes usually increase inequality and household debt. But there is an alternative, writes Fran Boait of campaigning orga...
Economics Money
Debts worth having
Nathan Schneider investigates how transforming the financial system could shift the way debts are formed and dealt with; from a system where...
Economics Money
Could the government stop rising inequality with alternative finance models?
Despite an increasingly loud conversation about inequality, its root causes remain intact. Stewart Lansley argues that the government has th...
Economics
Low-income Croatians given 'fresh start’ as debts wiped
The new scheme aims to boost the country's economy in the long term
Economics
Goodwill campaign frees thousands of Americans from $15m of debt
A group of former Occupy Wall Street activists have abolished nearly $15m (£9m) of Americans’ medical debt as part of a goodwill campaign to...
Economics
