With the 'Finance' day at COP26 approaching, have the world’s biggest central banks and financial supervisors stepped up to the plate on …
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The Treasury’s Job Support Scheme is a destructive creation
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 …
Beyond Financial Inclusion, We Need Racial Economic Justice
The idea of financial inclusion has gained traction in recent years, but the approach fails to account for how ethnic minorities face …
The Bank of England and the slave trade – why apologies are not enough
The Bank of England recently issued an apology for its ties with the slave trade. But notably, while accepting that former directors and …
It’s time to champion the visible hand
The government’s mini summer budget announced last week, reveals a stubborn ideological commitment to the free market above all else. The …
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Why Covid-19 should make us rethink the concept of inflation
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’s the time to stop worshipping the false god of GDP
We must resist GDP-based arguments which attempt to justify a less stringent public health response to Covid-19. As we emerge from this …
Why the climate strikers should target the Bank of England
It’s going to be one for the history books. Tomorrow on Friday 20th September, millions of people around the world will be taking to the …