Nov 29, 2022 | News, Petition 1, Petition 2
This letter was sent to members of the Finance and Expenditure Committee on 29 November 2022. Following up on our submissions to the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee on who creates our money In 2020 we presented a petition to the Finance and Expenditure...
Aug 21, 2020 | News, Petition 1
We at Positive Money New Zealand have reviewed the Finance and Expenditure Committee’s final response to our petition to have the Reserve Bank issue all of our currency. While we are disappointed with the outcome, we wish to thank the Committee for considering our...
May 17, 2020 | News, Petition 1, Submissions
https://youtu.be/fen7gWKpE14Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Positive Money presentation to the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee (https://youtu.be/fen7gWKpE14) We show the clip of our presentation in March of this year to the select...
Dec 20, 2019 | Petition 1
PART 1: Excerpt from Positive Money NZ’s submission to Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee, September 2019. Despite widely held and unfounded beliefs to the contrary, almost all of New Zealand’s (and the developed world’s) money is issued by private banks...
Dec 20, 2019 | Petition 1
PART 2: Excerpt from Positive Money NZ’s submission to Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee, September 2019. Our main concerns about New Zealand’s current debt-based money system are 1) the unfairness of the way this debt is created, 2) its direct role in...
Dec 20, 2019 | Petition 1
PART 3: Excerpt from Positive Money NZ’s submission to Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee, September 2019. What Positive Money NZ proposes is a system of managing New Zealand’s money supply under which the Reserve Bank creates all the country’s money...