Economist Professor Richard Werner, who proposed the term “quantitative easing” in Japan in the 1990s, and Caroline Lucas MP, of the Green New Deal Group, are calling
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This letter is in the Guardian this morning from Caroline Lucas: With the global climate crisis growing ever more urgent, the sharp rise in the
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I am in one sense I am pleased the UK is holding out against some aspects of the EU deal proposed by Merkel and Sarkozy.
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Larry Summers has said in the FT this morning: The central irony of financial crisis is that while it is caused by too much confidence,
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From today’s Guardian, from my Green New Deal colleague Colin Hines: Mervyn King is right that the UK is looking over an economic abyss (Britain in grip
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I note Vince Cable is calling for a new round of quantitative easing to boost consumption. He’s right that we need demand stimulated. He’s wrong
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As Larry Elliott notes this morning: One Sunday in October 2008, Alistair Darling flew back from Washington to find Britain on the brink of banking meltdown.
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Last weekend there was a pile of drivel published saying how Fitz Schumacher was a guru for David Cameron. I’m glad to see Andrews Simms
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On Saturday I wrote a blog entitled This is not just nuclear melt down – it’s the next world financial crisis too. The usual right
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