Showing posts with label Green New Deal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Green New Deal. Show all posts
24 November 2012

How Big is your Green Stimulus?

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Moving on from my earlier post about the green paradox of thrift I have been paying some attention to the discussions about green stimulus....
22 November 2012

Cold Comfort

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Age UK have offered their regular and timely alert about the cost to the country of our inadequate housing stock, but this year they have ...
19 December 2010

Easing Eurozone pressures

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Richard Douthwaite, of the Dublin-based think-tank FEASTA, has produced a useful paper offering solutions to the Eurozone crisis from an Iri...
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25 February 2010

More on Money

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As the bank results roll in, and the bonuses roll out, it is good to have a reminder of where this money came from. This letter to the FT fr...
5 November 2009

Queasy Come; Queasy Go

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I want to think again about quantitative easing - the government's new favourite policy that enables it to make money by decree. This is...
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5 October 2009

True Blue Never Fails

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At last the Tories have come out of their policy closet and given some detail on what they actually plan to do after the next election. And ...
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30 September 2009

Money system of last resort

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In a system that relies on debt to create money, as capitalist money systems do, there is always a temptation for individual banks to take i...
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23 July 2009

Man Armed with Sausage Roll Arrested by Pigs

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No, not an indication that her majesty's finest have taken a vegan turn, but rather a sign of the increasingly desperate nature of polic...
24 November 2008

Ooh, give me some more pain, darling

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I enjoy discussing a conspiracy theory over a pint as much as the next person and, given the shallow and irrelevant nature of most media cha...
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13 November 2008

Green New Deal: What's the Deal? And How Green Is It?

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Chatter about this mind-catching proposal is everywhere in green circles. My hearty congratulations to the authors who have managed to captu...
15 September 2008

By the waters of Leman . . .

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So here we are again. Financial journalists and politicians trying to make sense of a world they have long reassured us could never come aga...
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