This letter is in the Guardian this morning: Your editorial rightly highlights the serious problem of finding adequate funding to allow developing countries to tackle
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The UK has committed to spend as much on new renewable energy research as it gives 500 people in one tax relief
The Guardian has reported this morning that: The US and 18 other countries have pledged to double funds for clean energy research to a total
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Bill Gates is not the answer to funding climate change
Will Hutton has written an article on climate change in the Observer this morning. In it he says: [T]he world’s energy production … needs to be
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Launched today – Climate QE for Paree
Over the summer the idea of Green Infrastructure Quantitative Easing morphed into People’s Quantitative Easing and was adopted by Jeremy Corbyn in his Labour leadership bid. Much
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Why don’t bond traders like People’s Quantitative Easing?
Some questions are easier than others. The reason why bond traders don’t like People’s Quantitative Easing is easy to explain: they can’t make money out of
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Memo to Lord Adonis
This is from the Guardian this morning. I am a member of the Green New Deal group: Memo to Lord Adonis in his new role as
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Now we have a consensus on the need for investment let’s make it green
As I have noted over the last few days, the Jeremy Corbyn leadership campaign has achieved something quite extraordinary. Forty economists who wrote to support Corbynomics
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35 academics and People’s Quantitative Easing
I was pleased to note this letter by 35 academic economists and the support they note for People’s Quantitative Easing: The recent statement from Jeremy Corbyn
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PQE, gilts and the cost of borrowing
Several questions have been asked about whether or not People’s Quantitative Easing funding imposes a cost on the Bank of England because it is paid for with
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