{"id":34034,"date":"2016-07-11T15:41:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T14:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=34034"},"modified":"2016-07-11T15:41:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T14:41:40","slug":"theresa-may-has-stolen-the-idea-of-peoples-quantitative-easing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/07\/11\/theresa-may-has-stolen-the-idea-of-peoples-quantitative-easing\/","title":{"rendered":"Theresa May has stolen the idea of People&#8217;s Quantitative Easing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/7939901e-4756-11e6-8d68-72e9211e86ab.html#ixzz4E6wWVYz9\">FT has just reported <\/a>Theresa May's speech on her effective promotion to prime minister in which they report she said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a series of criticisms of George Osborne\u2019s tenure at the Treasury, Mrs May said he had neglected productivity problems and suggesting that government-backed project bonds could be used to boost infrastructure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That's the foundation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/07\/11\/negative-interest-rates-are-not-the-real-answer\/\">People's Quantitative Easing <\/a>by another description by the sound of it.<\/p>\n<p>Last September <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/09\/18\/what-will-george-osborne-call-peoples-qe\/\">I asked what George Osborne would call this idea<\/a>\u00a0when he used it. He won't but his successor will and wow we know: Project Bonds.<\/p>\n<p>I can't complain: I created the idea to be used. I think it will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FT has just reported Theresa May&#8217;s speech on her effective promotion to prime minister in which they report she said: In a series of<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/07\/11\/theresa-may-has-stolen-the-idea-of-peoples-quantitative-easing\/\"><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-34034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34034","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=34034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}