Debt disaster: How the Budget will stuff more money into the pockets of the financial sector
Why are we pumping billions into debt when there’s another way to finance public investment?
QE
The Bank of England risks fuelling climate change. Here’s how it can change
A report launching in Parliament gives vital advice on how to “hardwire” Britain’s central bank to the environmental upheavals to come.
The Tories should do something bold in their Autumn Budget: QE for the People
Instead of pumping money into financial markets, Hammond should fund infrastructure and green technology – or give households a direct cash boost.
Austerity and the misspent QE trillions
Austerity has enriched multinational companies and the owners of financial and real assets, while grinding down the value of earned income, pensions and benefits.
Britain’s trade deficit persists in spite of sterling devaluation
Quantitative easing and ‘loose’ monetary policy have not been successful in boosting UK export performance.
Did we just feel the warning tremors of the next financial crash?
Last week, tremors that had been rumbling through the financial markets since the turn of the year came to the surface.
Will the end of Quantitative Easing trigger a second crisis?
Something strange has been happening in stock markets since 2008: they have been going up. Not just up, but absolutely flying. Through the prolonged failed recovery, unemployment, an investment crisis, the Fukushima crisis and the EU debacle, Wall street, still the market all else look to, has doubled in value.
Bank of England confirms rich made richer by QE
Will a politician have the courage to make the case for measures to deliberately redistribute from rich to poor if only to correct the redistribution that has taken place in the opposite direction as a result of QE?