From my Green New Deal colleague and friend, Andrew Simms for BBC Ideas:
If Scotland wants a Green New Deal and a sustainable future it has to reject the Growth Commission
As many will know I take an interest in issues relating to Scottish independence, and have written for Common Weal on the taxation and currency
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Green QE can apply to the Bank of England too
I mentioned at the weekend that the FT had endorsed the logic of Green QE in an editorial, suggesting it should be the basis for
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91% of US Democrats wholly or partially back the Green New Deal
As the Guardian has noted, the De Moines Register (a newspaper in Iowa, USA, with a good track record on polling) has done a poll
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The FT gives editorial backing to People’s QE as the answer to the next downturn
An FT editorial this morning says, in conclusion to a discussion on the European conventional QE programme, and having noted that the programme in question
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The world is going green
The world is going green, even if too slowly. The FT reports this morning that: HSBC is facing investor pressure to end all financing of
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Tax justice and modern monetary theory: the podcast
The Green New Deal was never intended to end the USA as we know it
I try to read those who disagree with me. I was, then, amused to read this on Zero Hedge: The much talked about Green New
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What Scotland needs: a Green New Deal with its own currency
The Guardian has reported that: Nicola Sturgeon’s government needs to show much greater urgency in tackling climate change, a cross-party committee of the Scottish parliament
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