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Political economist, author and public speaker

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Green New Deal

Are the bond markets and rating agencies to be feared?

/ Bank Bail-outs, Finance Ministers, Government Borrowing, Green New Deal, Interest Rates, Treasury, UK Financial Crisis

5th January, 2010 There has been much sturm and drang generated by the Guardian and others on the threat posed to government finances by the flawed and often irrational rating agencies, and by the supposedly despotic, vengeful and greedy bond markets. Methinks they protest too much. We at the Green New Deal group have long […]

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York Minster EBOR lecture

/ Anglo-American Financial Crisis, Bank Bail-outs, Bank of England, British Chancellor, Credit, Credit Creation, Debt, Economic Orthodoxy, Financial Crisis, Fiscal Deficit, Government Borrowing, Green New Deal, UK Financial Crisis, Usury

12th December 2009 At the end of last month I delivered the prestigious EBOR lecture at York. My address was entitled: “Credit, usury and political power: chasing the moneylenders from the temple that is our democracy” Click on the link below to read a PDF version of the full lecture: EBOR Lecture November 25th (PDF)

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Green New Deal – ‘The Cuts won’t work’ report is published.

/ Anglo-American Financial Crisis, Climate Change, Debt-deflation, Environment, Finance Ministers, Fiscal Conservatives, Fiscal Deficit, Government Borrowing, Green New Deal, Public Spending, Treasury, Uncategorized

7th December, 2009 This is the press release from the new economics foundation: “Two days ahead of the pre-budget report, and as the UN climate change talks open in Copenhagen – the second report from the authors of the original Green New Deal argues that the British Chancellor is likely to miss a historic opportunity

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Times: Worst of slump yet to come, says economist

/ Anglo-American Financial Crisis, Bank Bail-outs, Bank of England, Banking Crisis, British Banking, Central Banks, Consumer Debt, Credit Crunch, Debt, Financial Crisis, Green New Deal, Inflation Targeting, Interest Rates, International Financial Architecture, International Financial System

Article Published in the Times, September 1st 2009. Photo by Jon Enoch. Ann Pettifor predicted a painful end to the good times. Now she says that only radical action can prevent further gloom Phil Thornton Ann Pettifor is a member of a select club — the seers who saw it all coming. Now the economist,

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