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The £1.8 trillion question: what should a pro-business Labour Party sound like?

The scale of Labour’s election loss in May came as a shock to many of us, myself included. But in retrospect, the polls had warned us that Labour substantially trailed the Conservatives on economic competence for much of the last

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Co-creation: the new economic model

As the centre-left business community comes to terms with the scale of Labour’s defeat, it seems that a new vigour and optimism is returning. We know how to create jobs and growth. We’ve done it all our lives. And

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Editorial: Towards a More Stable Global Financial System

Resolving Macro-Prudential Matters Without Taxpayer Subsidy And so the US Federal Reserve brings to an end its $3.7 trillion QE experiment which ostensibly was introduced to kick start the economy, though this programme combined with a zero interest rate policy

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True and Fair Way, Setting Gold Standard for Investment and Pensions

The savings and investment industry is a vital one as no government will be able to plug the savings gap crisis or the alarming increase in pension poverty – in Britain, it’s simply not a good place to grow old.

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Is it Time to Strip Banks of their Power to Create Money?

Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, has recently argued that we should “strip banks of their power to create money”. In his column, he refers to proposals in the book I co-authored, Modernising Money (see below). The book explains how the power to create money can be removed from the banks that caused the financial crisis and returned to a democratic, transparent and accountable body working in the public interest.

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Money: An Issue Ignored by Parliament Since 1844

Parliament places huge scrutiny on how taxpayers’ money is spent. But for the last 170 years, parliament has ignored the question of how money is created in the first place.

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19 May

"Technology doesn't have to be the enemy. We need to ensure everyone can benefit from it" - @jeremycorbyn

A tacit recognition of the need for @UKLabour to do more on tech's political economy but a recognition nonetheless 🌹👩🏼‍💻
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Michael H.@MichaelH14·

3 Mar

“One million vulnerable elderly people are without the care they need - in the 6th richest country in the world”
“Austerity was never an economic necessity - it was a political choice” : @johnmcdonnellMP
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Jeremy Corbyn@jeremycorbyn·

10 Feb

Today, Labour outlined how we will take control of our economy to put it in the hands of the many, not the few.

To do so we must meet the challenge of climate change which requires us to radically shift the way we organise our economy. https://t.co/wO6rFOT2rI #NewEconomics

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