Showing posts with label quantitative easing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quantitative easing. Show all posts
20 July 2013

Quantitative Easing for the Poor?

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Creating money was once looked on as a dangerous game, destabilising the economy and potentially leading to rampant inflation. But this trad...
12 October 2012

Adair Turner Makes Play for Job as Governor

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At last a crack appears in the establishment position over the national debt. Following the statement from the Office for Budget Respons...
6 October 2012

Ineffective Government Breeds Ineffective Demand

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The launch of the Bristol Pound on 19 September was the subject of international media attention , and rightly so.   The decision by ...
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3 September 2012

Renew Calls for Citizens' Audit

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For a while now I have been blogging about the importance of a Citizens' Audit. The role of such an audit would be to settle the issue o...
28 October 2011

Green Queasing Gathers Support

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Last year Colin Hines and Richard Murphy of Finance for a Future called for money to be into businesses helping us make the transition to a...
27 January 2011

How Much Money Has the Fed Printed?

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As we suffer under the cosh of the Tories' austerity, many are casting envious eyes across the Atlantic and asking whether our governmen...
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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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20 October 2010

Who do we owe the national debt to?

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On this day when we finally hear the details about the cuts that we have been bullied and battered with for the past six months, it might be...
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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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30 October 2009

A Tale of Two Sectors

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I am posting from distant Brno, which is a civilised country where you can travel miles on a tram for fifty pence and people still stop work...
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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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14 July 2009

Mr. Bean to Explain Quantitative Easing Policy

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This is one of those moments - like when Tom Lehrer gave up satire to commemorate the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger - wh...
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22 May 2009

One Day All Money Will be Created this Way

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In an earlier post I questioned what might be the limitation on the policy agreement between the Bank of England and the UK Debt Management ...
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7 May 2009

Gilty Secrets of the Treasury

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For those whose interest in what the hell the government is up to with our monetary policy continues, I offer the Debt and Reserves (as if!)...
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29 April 2009

Would you buy a used economy . . .?

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I am faintly tempted to make some sort of connection between the budget and the scrappage scheme, which might get as far as a joke if it wer...
23 March 2009

Who Pays the Piper?

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The public debate has moved seamlessly from outrage at the handing of vast sums of debt-based money to reckless financial institutions to wi...
6 March 2009

Something for Nothing

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Yesterday was QE day: the day that the government and the Bank of England proved the justice of the argument for which monetary reformers ha...