local currencies

Local Currencies: The Road to Financial Safety

By peterPosted on 7th June 2012Posted in Economics, Scotsman, Society and CultureTagged Brixton Pound, Hawick Portobello, local currencies

As small businesses struggle to find support from the banks, Peter Geoghegan suggests now is the time to look at an alternative way to finance retail firms It’s official: the UK is back in recession. On the day Rupert Murdoch was appearing in sack-cloth and ashes before the Leveson inquiry in London, the Office for […]

By peterPosted on 7th May 2012Posted in Economics, London Review of Books, Society and CultureTagged Jara, local currencies, Miracle of Worgl, Pepa, Puma, Seville

My latest blog on the London Review of Books site, on local currencies, runny Spanish omelettes and ‘the Miracle of Worgl’: Death to the Euro.’ The handmade sign was pinned to the wall of a community centre in San Luis, a gentrified neighbourhood just inside the boundaries of Seville’s old city. It was a balmy […]