This letter is in the Guardian this morning: Larry Elliott is right to be sceptical about whether the trillion-euro dose of QE will solve Europe’s
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The wrong type of QE
The European Central Bank has launched its QE programme, which is planned to print €1.1 trillion (that’s €1,100,000,000,000) of money in the Eurozone over the
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Money no obstacle for Europe: Green QE and fair tax funded infrastructure can replace austerity’s ‘road to ruin’
The Green New Deal Group launched a new report today on the need for Green Infrastructure Quantitative Easing and the collection of money owed by tax
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Banks do create money out of thin air – which is a power that must be used for social good
Some heat has been expended in the comments section of this blog concerning the ability of banks to create money of thin air, which despite
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Worry, because we’re heading for deflation
Over the last few years I have mentioned, every few months, that one of the real economic risks facing the UK has been deflation. I
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Why we should print money to fund green investments
This is in the Guardian this afternoon: In a world where the cult of austerity and balanced budgets dominate politics, it would be all too
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The case for a Green New Deal is unanswerable
New research, reported by the Guardian this morning, has shown that if climate change is to be curtailed then most of the already identified fossil
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The alternative economic view – guest post from Andrew Simms
I’ve known Andrew Simms for what seems like a long time. He’s a fellow Green New Deal member, former Policy Director at the New Economics
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Printing houses
This letter was in the Guardian today: Instead of the eye-wateringly cruel cuts in public services inherent in the chancellor’s obsession with rapid deficit reduction,
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