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Around the world governments are intervening in the economy in ways that would have once seemed unimaginable. This blog thread explores the responses to the pandemic emerging around the world, and the policy proposals and practical approaches that might see us emerge, re-set and equipped to respond to the interlinked crises in climate, nature and inequality.
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The challenge we are currently facing is unprecedented in its scale, nature and impact. Around the world governments are intervening in the economy in ways that would have once seemed unimaginable. This blog explores the responses to the pandemic emerging around the world, and explores the policy proposals and approaches that might see us emerge, re-set and equipped to respond to the crises in climate, nature and inequality
Caroline Lucas: We need to invest in a positive, green and socially just future
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...
How to get the economy working for all of us
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...
How Green Infrastructure Quantitative Easing would work
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...
Let’s talk about what kind of QE can actually turn the economy round
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...
Obama's example for the UK
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...
Money no obstacle for Europe: Green QE and fair tax funded infrastructure can replace austerity’s ‘road to ruin’
The Green New Deal Group launched a new report today on the need for Green Infrastructure Quantitative Easing and the collection of money owed by tax cheats as the way forward for Europe, not a form of QE that is already causing economic nightmares and damage in the...