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...
Oct 20, 2022 | Media Releases, Monetary Financing, News, Reserve Bank
To: Members of the Petitions Committee, New Zealand Parliamentcc: Dr Duncan Webb, MP (the MP who received our petition) Follow up to our petition, “The Reserve Bank Covid-19 recovery direct funding petition”, published 1 July 2021 You may remember that our petition...
Feb 10, 2022 | Media Releases, News, Submissions
The Green Party’s call for an inquiry into the government’s economic response to Covid is welcome, but needs to go a step further, says Positive Money national spokesperson Don Richards. “Rather than a select committee inquiry, the public deserves an...
Mar 31, 2021 | Media Releases, News
A new petition is asking Parliament to require the Reserve Bank to directly fund the Covid recovery and other essential infrastructure, cutting out the unnecessary bank middlemen. The Reserve Bank plans to spend up to 100 billion dollars to buy bonds on the secondary...
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...