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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This letter was published in the Guardian today: Instead of the eye-wateringly cruel cuts in public services inherent in the chancellor’s obsession with rapid deficit reduction, the pre-election debate should radically change direction to one that has at its heart a...

The following press release has been issued by Caroline Lucas MP and the Green New Deal group this morning. There are more details on green quantitative easing  here: When George Osborne stands up this Wednesday to deliver his Autumn Statement he will find himself...

The letter was in the Guardian this morning: Simon Jenkins is right to call for quantitative easing to be used to boost economic activity (We should cash-bomb the people, not the banks, 27 November), but wrong to suggest it should be spread to everyone...

This letter was in the Guardian today: It was heartening to hear Ed Miliband say in his speech that tackling climate change is a passion of his and that solving it could be a massive job-generating opportunity (Report, 24 September). The inevitable question of how to...

This letter was in the Guardian today: A new form of quantitative easing to fund green activity would strengthen the economy not only of the UK but also of the rest of Europe, were it to be introduced continent-wide. This approach would be preferable to the proposed...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This letter was published in the Guardian today: Instead of the eye-wateringly cruel cuts in public services inherent in the chancellor’s obsession with rapid deficit reduction, the pre-election debate should radically change direction to one that has at its heart a...

The following press release has been issued by Caroline Lucas MP and the Green New Deal group this morning. There are more details on green quantitative easing  here: When George Osborne stands up this Wednesday to deliver his Autumn Statement he will find himself...

The letter was in the Guardian this morning: Simon Jenkins is right to call for quantitative easing to be used to boost economic activity (We should cash-bomb the people, not the banks, 27 November), but wrong to suggest it should be spread to everyone...

This letter was in the Guardian today: It was heartening to hear Ed Miliband say in his speech that tackling climate change is a passion of his and that solving it could be a massive job-generating opportunity (Report, 24 September). The inevitable question of how to...

This letter was in the Guardian today: A new form of quantitative easing to fund green activity would strengthen the economy not only of the UK but also of the rest of Europe, were it to be introduced continent-wide. This approach would be preferable to the proposed...