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David Barmes

David Barmes

David is carrying out Positive Money’s latest research on Escaping Growth Dependency. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Psychology from McGill University and is currently completing a master’s degree in Socio-Ecological Economics & Policy at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. His research mostly falls within the field of ecological macroeconomics, where he draws on approaches and insights from Ecological, Post-Keynesian, and Institutionalist Economics.



Still too many promises and not enough action from G20 central banks

2 November, 2021
November 2, 2021 With the 'Finance' day at COP26 approaching, have the world’s biggest central banks and financial supervisors stepped up to the plate on climate? Far from it — we’re keeping tabs with an update to our G20 green central banking scorecard. China lost its top spot to France, the UK slipped behind the [...]


The Bank of England is delaying the inevitable on climate capital rules

16 June, 2021
June 16, 2021 Penalising dirty lending is necessary to ensure financial stability and support net-zero.  While the regulatory reforms triggered by the global financial meltdown of 2007/08 have yet to be fully implemented, another major rethink of financial regulation is already underway. Climate change is the new systemic risk. Carbon is the new bubble. And [...]


Why negative interest rates won’t save us

13 October, 2020
While the prospect of negative interest rates is hitting the headlines on a weekly basis, they’re simply the wrong choice - with limited impact and hidden risks. Instead, the Bank of England should be embracing more transformative monetary policy, and coordinating more closely with the Treasury to combat this covid-induced economic crisis.  The Bank of [...]


The Treasury’s Job Support Scheme is a destructive creation

5 October, 2020
The Treasury’s plan for jobs lacks the ambition and boldness we need to avoid an unemployment crisis. By relying on the process of ‘creative destruction’ in the midst of a global pandemic, the Job Support Scheme is doomed to fail, and coaching for the unemployed won’t change that outcome.  As the furlough scheme comes to [...]


New report: Where are the conditions for the Bank of England’s broken bailout scheme?

2 July, 2020
The government and the Bank of England are using a new scheme – the Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF) – to bail out the UK’s largest corporations with no strings attached. As of 24th June, a select list of 63 companies, including some of the country’s biggest polluters, held a total of £18 billion in [...]


Why Covid-19 should make us rethink the concept of inflation

4 May, 2020
Despite the Bank of England and the Treasury’s coordinated moves to pump more money into the economy, inflation is unlikely to occur for now. Rather, the current crisis is generating deflationary pressures. Covid-19 shouldn’t prompt worries about inflation but rather a rethink of the concept itself. The Bank of England’s moves to offer forms of [...]


Bank of England provides £7.5 billion in big business bailouts – hidden from public view

16 April, 2020
While SMEs struggle to gain access to government-backed loans, large corporations have already been bailed out to the tune of approximately £7.5bn via the Bank of England’s newly created Covid Corporate Financing Facility - and it’s all being hidden from public view.  As part of their measures to combat the economic fallout of Covid-19 the [...]


The ultimate magic money tree has been unveiled – don’t let the government tell you otherwise

15 April, 2020
Despite the extension of the Ways and Means facility and expanded Quantitative Easing, the Treasury and the Bank of England might still deny that they are engaged in monetary financing and attempt to justify a return to austerity. We can’t let that happen. On 9th April, HM Treasury and the Bank of England jointly announced [...]


Climate culprits retain eligibility for Bank of England’s coronavirus corporate QE expansion

7 April, 2020
The Bank of England’s list of eligible bonds for its corporate QE programme still includes the likes of BP, Shell, Total and a range of other carbon-intensive companies. The Bank must stick to its word and immediately exclude high-carbon companies from further asset purchases. Only days before taking the helm as new Bank of England [...]
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