by admin | Jul 7, 2015 | General
US Green Party Presidential Candidate Dr Jill Stein has backed the Green New Deal – which she looks to have lifted wholesale from the work of this group. In an interview with Elle magazine she said: The Green New Deal is an emergency solution to two big crises. One is...
by admin | Jul 4, 2015 | General
This article was in the New Statesmen this week, authored by Green New Deal member Caroline Lucas MP: Next week the Conservatives will present their first Budget as a majority Government. The context is grim. Progress on child poverty, surely a bellwether for good...
by admin | Jun 2, 2015 | General
This is the latest Green New Deal letter in the Guardian: Central banks printing more money through quantitative easing do not risk hyper-inflation. The US, UK, Japan and recently the EU have printed or plan to print about a staggering £5tn of QE money and yet...
by admin | Mar 12, 2015 | General
Quantitative Easing is back on the global economic and political agenda. The growing threat of deflation has meant that Japan has just reintroduced QE, and the European Central Bank has begun its own programme to deal with the serious economic problems of the...
by admin | Jan 26, 2015 | General
This letter was published in the Financial Times today: Sir, You are correct to say (“No need for hostilities in the phoney currency war”, editorial, January 24) that the eurozone’s problem is weak domestic demand, but wrong to claim that the usual form of QE could...
by admin | Jan 22, 2015 | General
This is from the Guardian today: Larry Elliott is right to be sceptical about whether the trillion-euro dose of QE will solve Europe’s economic problems (Report, 21 January). Like its £375bn UK predecessor, it will buy government bonds from banks and, as happened...