This is from the FT this morning, by SteingrÃmur Sigfússon: Iceland’s response to the financial crisis has been taken as a model for how a country should
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Economic realities: climate change
This is by Martin Wolf in the FT this morning: Last week the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was reported to have passed 400
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Unburnable carbon – the next financial crisis in the making
The Guardian had a great animation yesterday on the unburnable carbon that could now be inflating stock exchange values of a large range of quoted mining companies.
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Is Windows 8 just cumber?
The FT has reported this morning that: Microsoft has given the strongest signal to date of a change of heart over its new Windows 8 operating
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We need QE, but we need the right form of QE too. That’s the one that would create jobs and social housing
Larry Elliott argues this morning: Financial markets have become stimulus junkies. They crave their next fix of quantitative easing and when they don’t get it they turn
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It’s time to print money to fill the hole in the economy
The FT reported yesterday (and I missed it then) that: Lord Turner, the departing chairman of the Financial Services Authority has defended financing government spending by printing
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Now is the time for a Green New Deal, and this time the IMF agree
I do like this, from Olivier Blanchard and David Leigh at the IMF in a new working paper: This paper investigates the relation between growth
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For those wanting some New Year thinking
The limits to growth – and a little inspiration
Martin Wolf asks in the FT this morning wheteher there are limits to growth. He’s right to do so. But maybe a little behind the
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