Josh Ryan-Collins is Subject Lead for Economy and Finance at the ew Economics Foundation (NEF). He is the lead author of NEF's recently published guide to the UK monetary system - Where does money come from? - which sets out in non-technical language how commercial banks dominate the creation and allocation of credit and money.
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