I noted that the OECD published a comment from the Dutch Prime Minster on its web site yesterday. He was writing in his capacity as
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Green QE: a response to Frances Coppola
Frances Coppola, who is a well respected commentator on banking issues, has issued a response to my comment piece in Holyrood magazine on green infrastructure quantitative
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Half a Green New Deal from Labour
Labour’s Green Manifesto commits it to some key aspects of what I have long called the Green New Deal. As it says: The next Labour
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Is the SNP talking about using quantitative easing to fund investment?
The SNP manifesto includes strong commitments to investment in thew Scottish economy, including via the Green Investment Bank and a Scottish Development Bank. What intrigues
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Right-to-buy is wrong in every way imaginable
The morning’s headlines will be dominated by the Tories plan to extend the ‘right-to-buy’ scheme to housing association tenants. Reports suggests that up to 1.3
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There’s just not enough debt
The FT has reported this morning that: Some 57 per cent of all outstanding German government bond debt with a maturity of more than a
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Andy Haldane is right, and wrong
The FT has noted: The Bank of England’s chief economist has opened the door to a further cut in UK interest rates if low inflation
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At least one European finance minister gets Green QE
I am not alone in proposing green quantitative easing. The following, published over the weekend is a very similar argument to mine: Here is what the
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How Green Infrastructure Quantitative Easing would work
I have been asked to provide an explanation of how Green Infrastructure Quantitative Easing would work as a result of the speech I made this
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