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The QuEST for a Green New Deal in the Guardian

Posted on 30 August 2021

Colin Hines has this letter in the Guardian: Andy Beckett is right to find some optimism in the record of the exceptional Green MP Caroline Lucas and the party’s growing number of councillors (The Greens are on the brink of power – is it more than a political blip?, 27 August). However, the crucial route
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It is time we had joined up economic policy, and independent central banking hooked on QE is not good for that

Posted on 25 August 2021

In 2010 I wrote this in a paper co-authored with Colin Hines on what we thought should be the future of quantitative easing: More than a decade on, quantitative easing is still funding government deficits, the financial sector is still the main beneficiary, and asset and bust cycles have become one continuous boom (so far,
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The QuEST for a Green New Deal in The National

Posted on 13 August 2021

Richard Murphy had this article in The National on 12 August 2021:      

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The QuEST for a Green New Deal in the FT

Posted on 13 August 2021

Colin Hines had this letter in the FT on 13 August 2021:

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Finance for the Future at the Green Alliance

Posted on 11 August 2021

Finance for the Future partner Colin Hines has a blog out with the Green Alliance: In the post Colin describes the QuEST for a Green New Deal. QuEST stands for quantitative easing, savings and taxation. As it is becoming apparent that the climate crisis is becoming ever more urgent so are ways to fund it
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Finance for the Future’s new funding for the QuEST for a Green New Deal

Posted on 10 August 2021

Few can now really doubt the environmental mess that our planet is in. The USA is burning, as is Siberia. Germany and the Benelux countries are flooding, as is China and southeast Asia. Canada and Northern Ireland have recorded all-time record temperatures. All these events are happening within weeks of each other. The global threat
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