My Green New Deal colleague Colin Hines had the following blog on the TUC Touchstone blog yesterday, and I share it here because of the emphasis
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The power of the bond markets is just bluff – which is why debt could be used to fund the Green New Deal
In 2010 George Osborne led the UK into solely politically motivated austerity and government cuts using the first of his political bogeymen – the power
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What is the Green New Deal?
People have been asking me what the Green New Deal is. ANdrew Simms wrote the following summary. The Green New Deal is: 1. A massive
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If the solution is not a Green New Deal then what is it? Who else has a coherent alternative narrative?
Larry Elliott asks a a key question in the Guardian this morning: Are we content with recovery requiring households to get deeper into debt? As
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The Green New Deal in the Observer
Today’s fifth anniversary Green New Deal report is featured in the Observer this morning. Observer cconomics editor Heath Stewart writes: Campaigners have warned that Britain is hurtling
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The Green New Deal 5th Anniversary Report: A national plan for the UK
The Green New Deal group – of which I’m a member – has published its fifth anniversary report this morning: Our first report on how
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Life can only be lived within limits
My friend and Green New Deal colleague, Andrew Simms, had an excellent article in the Guardian yesterday in which he pointed out that best estimates
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When the world is suffering a glut of capital it needs a Green New Deal
The FT carried a fascinating article by John Authers today in which he quite convincingly argues that there is a glut of capital in the
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Banks have to shrink which is why we need a Green New Deal
The FT’s noted: Europe’s biggest banks will have to cut €661bn of assets and generate €47bn of fresh capital over the next five years to
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