I have argued that there is ample scope to increase the tax paid by those with wealth in the UK. A whole part of the
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Modern monetary theory gets to Westminster
I am often asked if MPs get modern monetary theory. Yesterday they had a chance to do so. Angus MacNeil MP hosted a meeting at
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Will Lagarde deliver Green quantitative easing? We can hope
The FT reports this morning that: Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, has opened the door to using its €2.8tn asset purchase scheme
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Wednesday morning Sunak thoughts
Extinction Rebellion: Insights From The Inside
I asked my friend Rupert Read of the University of East Anglia and Extinction rebellion to write the following for this blog about his new
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Introduction to the Green New Deal: my new YouTube video
My next video that introduces themes I will address in my YouTube channel is out this morning. This time I talk about the Green New
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We need to tax income from wealth more, but massive wealth taxes would crash the economy to an extent Covid-19 has not managed
Polly Toynbee wrote this in The Guardian yesterday, referring to the need for funding to beat our economic crisis: But what if, with one bound, we
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Natural gas joins the list of stranded assets investments that have cost hundreds oif billions
As the Guardian notes this morning: A multibillion-dollar pipeline of projects aiming to ship gas around the world on giant tankers could be in jeopardy
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Freeports: the new tax havens that the government wants to create in the UK
One of Rishi Sunak’s big plans for the UK is the introduction of so-called ‘freeports’. He has been promoting them for a long time, and
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