My old friend, Professor Prem Sikka, who is now a member of the House of Lords, spoke in a debate on quantitative easing in that
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The Bank of England will never unwind quantitative easing
I have just had this drawn to my attention. It comes from the Sunday Times this weekend. It is from an interview with Andrew Bailey,
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Climate quantitative easing is key to tackling climate change
Colin Hines and I are in The Guardian this morning: Our letter says: Rebecca Solnit’s inspiring long read (Ten ways to confront the climate crisis
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Without a comprehensive accounting standard for climate change private equity could have a field day exploiting dirty assets for short term gain
Huw van Steenis, who is a senior adviser to the chief executive of UBS and a former adviser to ex-Bank of England governor Mark Carney,
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We have a supposedly wealthy world that looks to be fundamentally feudal that has been created by financial engineering and tax incentives. So now we need to change the rules.
The McKinsey Global Institute has produced a new report on wealth. I have not read all the detail as yet – but strongly suspect I
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COP 26 failed. We need not. But w have to get on with beating the forces that want to kill life in earth. Time is not our side.
I admit that I have been struggling to find appropriate words to write since it became apparent that COP26 really would not deliver anything like
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The Green New Deal is about unification around a new vision of society
This letter from my fellow Green New FDeal Group members, Caroline Lucas MP and Clive Lewis MP, was in the Guardian today, referring to the
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What will make the neoclassical economist realise that there is something more important than market equilibria, and that is life itself?
Chris Giles said this in the FT this morning: Here is a simple question. Has the UK economy already recovered all of the ground lost
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The great success of the Green New Deal is in getting people to believe in it
Aditya Chakrabortty had this to say about an article he wrote for the Guardian yesterday: The column that will probably lose me the most friends:
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