Understanding the importance of issuing your own currency in an independent Scotland and Wales
In this unique short series of events (Glasgow, 11th July, and Cardiff, 29th August), Scotonomics, AUOB Cymru, and Melin Drafod have come together to put on a fantastic event focusing on the importance of our independent nations issuing their own currency on the day of independence.
Programme
17.45 Doors and refreshments
18.00 Welcome and the State We Are In – An economic summary of the United Kingdom
Leanne Wood, former leader of Plaid Cymru, and Tegid Roberts, Cadarn Consulting
18.30 The Economic Narrative of Independence
Should the economic narrative for independence focus on an anti-austerity message? Stability? The only option to the failed state of the UK? Universal Basic Services, A Job Guarantee, A UBI? A wellbeing economy?
Mark Hooper, Plaid Cymru, and William Thomson, Scotonomics
19.00 Facilitated group discussion on the vision for independence
19.30 Break with refreshments
19.45 How an understanding of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) supports independence
Warren Mosler, Founder of MMT, with Mark Hooper and William Thomson
21.00 END