{"id":32964,"date":"2016-03-31T06:53:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T05:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=32964"},"modified":"2016-03-31T15:29:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:29:37","slug":"we-did-qe-for-banks-now-we-need-to-do-it-for-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/03\/31\/we-did-qe-for-banks-now-we-need-to-do-it-for-steel\/","title":{"rendered":"We did QE for banks. Now we need to do it for steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The steel industry is dirty. It eats energy. It consumes the earth's resources. And as yet we need it.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese could, and are, swamping our steel industry, as they are that of Europe. But we cannot be dependent on China for such a fundamental resource. That is just not strategically possible. So we must save steel.<\/p>\n<p>How? Let me suggest People's Quantitative Easing funding a National Investment Bank to provide the funding, quite literally costlessly.<\/p>\n<p>We did QE for banks. Now it is time to do it for steel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The steel industry is dirty. It eats energy. It consumes the earth&#8217;s resources. And as yet we need it. The Chinese could, and are, swamping<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/03\/31\/we-did-qe-for-banks-now-we-need-to-do-it-for-steel\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}