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The UK budget offered no vision for sustainable economic growth

The budget was singularly lacking in ambition when it came to the government’s role in creating a sustainable, inclusive and investment-led recovery.

There was no new green stimulus despite the UK facing a £100bn funding gap to reach its net-zero by 2050 target and despite its hosting of the global COP26 climate change summit this November.

A Financial Revolution is Needed – in Weeks

To avert permanent economic damage during the worst slump for 300 years, the government has to provide emergency credit to business, guarantee loans, offer grants, defer tax and rate payments and directly pay the wages of furloughed workers

The fallacy of the savings rate

A critique of the Financial Times’ analysis of the ‘UK’s low savings rate’. Austerity and financialisation, not profligate shoppers, are to blame.

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