This is from my Green New Deal colleague and Green MP Caroline Lucas, in the Guardian this morning: We must be able to leverage whatever
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The SNP needs to embrace its own currency and the Green New Deal
As The National newspaper in Scotland has reported, the SNP leadership are presenting a 33 point resolution to their spring conference that, in effect, adopts
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If MMT, the Green New Deal, a liveable planet and decent houses for fairly paid people is too much to ask for, what does the Resolution Foundation want?
The Resolution Foundation has been a think tank in search of a party to lobby for some time. Chaired by ex Tory minister David Willets
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The Green New Deal could take the form of a bus
These statistics come from Common Space in Scotland this morning, but I strongly suspect that they would be consistent in England and Wales as well: The
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The Washington Post is leading the right wing backlash to the Green New Deal, and have got almost everything wrong
The right-wing backlash against the Green New Deal has begun, most especially in the USA. The Washington Post ran a lengthy editorial yesterday making clear
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It’s not easy being the Green New Deal
Government debt v climate apocalypse: a battle that can have only one winner
As Zac Carter has noted in The Huffington Post: One priority the Green New Deal does not include? Balancing the federal budget. Neither the Green
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What should a neoliberal do? Save the planet or balance the government’s budget?
Simon Wren-Lewis has written about funding the Green New Deal today. His answer is borrowing (which is no surprise given the structure of Labour’s fiscal rule,
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Next time QE has to be green
The FT had an article yesterday by Michael Howell, who is the managing director of CrossBorder Capital. I thought the summary of his argument was interesting:
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