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Mutual credit ? a lifeline for small businesses

Low Impact

Tomorrow, Dil Green explains how community wealth building and mutual credit could be a match made in heaven. Research has indicated that a shortage of money will mean that up to a million UK small businesses may close in the coming months. That alternative exists – it’s called mutual credit , and it really works.

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Explaining mutual credit to small business owners

Low Impact

At Lowimpact.org, we’ve been banging on about something called ‘mutual credit’ for about 3 or 4 years now – constantly trying to think of ways to explain it that can be grasped really quickly. Bad for giant corporations and good for small businesses, in other words. Can you see any problems with it? The concept.

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The Future of Money (Part 1): with Brett Scott

Low Impact

This is part of a series of interviews that will accompany a book I’m writing about building a new kind of economy, that will be published by Chelsea Green – an employee-owned company, and part of the new economy that the book is describing, built around a mutual credit core. Is that right? It was in 2008.