{"id":65444,"date":"2017-09-05T01:17:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T18:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/green-spending-could-help-rescue-uk-after-debt-crash-letters\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T02:32:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T19:32:42","slug":"green-spending-could-help-rescue-uk-after-debt-crash-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/green-spending-could-help-rescue-uk-after-debt-crash-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Green spending could help rescue UK after debt crash | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA \u00a350bn-a-year green infrastructure quantitative easing programme is feasible, say Prof Richard Murphy and Colin HinesZoe Williams is right: another credit crunch-induced \u201ccrash\u201d is likely and the only affordable rescue package will be some form of quantitative easing (With Britain\u2019s addition to debt, another crash is certain, 4 September). This time it must generate jobs for the \u201cleft behind\u201d and others, rather than today\u2019s beneficiaries \u2013 the property- and share-owning rich. The Green New Deal group showed the potential of such an approach in its proposal for a \u00a350bn-a-year green infrastructure QE programme.This would pay to make the UK\u2019s 28m dwellings and 2m commercial and public sector buildings super energy efficient, dramatically reducing energy bills, fuel poverty and greenhouse gas emissions. It could also tackle the housing crisis by building affordable, highly insulated homes, predominantly on brownfield sites. This form of QE would provide job security and local business opportunities in every constituency, since its infrastructure improvements would take place across the UK. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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A \u00a350bn-a-year green infrastructure quantitative easing programme is feasible, say Prof Richard Murphy and Colin...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-h1y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":67118,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/uk-debt-crisis-and-the-onward-march-of-neoliberalism-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":65444,"position":0},"title":"UK debt crisis and the onward march of neoliberalism | Letters","date":"September 22, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Quantitative easing allowed the wealthy to get out of cash and into assets, writes Martin London; the provisionally passed Ceta deal is TTIP by the back door, says John Airs. 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