{"id":73566,"date":"2023-12-28T08:47:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T08:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=73566"},"modified":"2023-12-28T08:47:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T08:47:58","slug":"our-savings-could-be-the-key-to-the-future-that-we-all-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/12\/28\/our-savings-could-be-the-key-to-the-future-that-we-all-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Our savings could be the key to the future that we all need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Hines and I have<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2023\/dec\/27\/our-savings-could-be-key-to-ending-austerity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0a letter in The Guardian<\/a> this morning under this headline:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-73567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_1293-550x256.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_1293-550x256.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_1293-768x357.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_1293-600x279.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_1293.jpeg 1078w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The letter says:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-73568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_1292-550x511.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_1292-550x511.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_1292-323x300.jpeg 323w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_1292-768x713.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_1292-431x400.jpeg 431w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_1292.jpeg 1238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If only\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>I will keep talking about this. It is absurd that savings are never discussed as a source of capital for the investment we need. It is the massive missing part of the equation that makes the economics of the future possible.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>PS And congratulations to Colin on becoming a grandparent to Ava Rose on Christmas Day. It\u2019s for people like her that we will keep on banging on.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Hines and I have\u00a0a letter in The Guardian this morning under this headline: The letter says: If only\u2026. I will keep talking about this.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/12\/28\/our-savings-could-be-the-key-to-the-future-that-we-all-need\/\"><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":[35,200,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-finance-for-the-future","category-green-new-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73566","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=73566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73570,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73566\/revisions\/73570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}