The FT has this to say this morning: The research is by Carbon Tracker and I cannot, as yet, find it on their site, but
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The fictional markets in environmental assets that the financiers are dreaming up are not going to solve the climate crisis
One of the features of sustainable cost accounting that its critics are not to keen on is my suggestion that offsetting not be permitted within
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Is Johnson doing a Baldrick?
I watched some of the press conference led by the prime minister yesterday on the government’s plan for managing Covid this winter. I then tweeted
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Catching up
As some will have noticed, it is not quite normal service on the blog this week. I admit I am taking a quiet week to
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The Quick Guide to the new Scottish Currency
Tim Rideout has asked me to publish this guide created by the Scottish Currency Group and I am happy to do so: 1. When will
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Tax and modern monetary theory
I noted yesterday the criticisms that can entirely appropriately be made of those who suggest modern monetary theory (MMT) is dangerous, and even wrong because
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Falsehoods cannot win against this pandemic, but that will not stop this government trying them
One of the characteristics of Boris Johnson’s government is its ability to pretend that events will happen when evidence suggests that to be very unlikely.
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If the critics of modern monetary theory want to be taken seriously they have to get their facts right
I was sent a link to an article by Michael U. Krause, Thomas A. Lubik and Karl Rhodes for the US Richmond Federal Reserve Bank which
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