The Green New Deal group was in the Guardian this morning: One of the justifications for the coalition’s cuts is the pretence that they are
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You’ll be paddling soon – and not necessarily at the seaside
As the Guardian notes: Flood defences, protecting nature and fighting pollution appear to be the casualties after Osborne inflicted the highest level of budget cuts
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We’re investing in carbon production when we need flood defences
Osborne’s investment programme is all about carbon production. Most especially he wants to build roads. And yet as the FT reports this morning: Insurers have issued a rare
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Farewell QE – now can we have Green quantitative easing now, please?
QE’s potential demise in the US has sent the world’s stock markets into a downward spin, providing the surest indication of where much of the benefit of this money printing exercise went. QE
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One of the most difficult questions in European politics that’s urgently in need of an answer
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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