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	<title>Quakernomics &#187; Investment</title>
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	<description>Seeking a fair economy for people and planet</description>
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		<title>Quantitative Easing – yes! But alongside a National Energy Agency</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Weekes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Better World Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of Friends have shared with me their unease about the idea of Quantitative Easing (QE).  It may be of interest to share my response with Quakernomics users. What QE does is show that the Central Bank  can, in effect, create ‘money’ (or liquidity, or credit).  But what many thoughtful economists (Ann Pettifor and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money in a low-carbon, sustainable community</title>
		<link>http://www.quakerweb.org.uk/blog/investmnet/money-in-a-low-carbon-sustainable-community/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=money-in-a-low-carbon-sustainable-community</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suzannei</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BYM’s commitment to become a low-carbon, sustainable community will require many changes.  One of these could be to examine how we bank, save and invest our money. On investment, Quaker faith &#38; practice (Fourth edition – 20.56) advises “thought should be given, not only to security and the rate of interest, but to the conditions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Vickers Banking Commission Report – 12 Sept 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.quakerweb.org.uk/blog/zero-growth-economy/the-vickers-banking-commission-report-%e2%80%93-12-sept-2011/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-vickers-banking-commission-report-%25e2%2580%2593-12-sept-2011</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zero Growth Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Vickers Banking Commission Report – 12 Sept 2011 &#8211; completely ignores the most fundamental problem with the modern banking system &#8211; the fact that 97% of the money in circulation in the UK is created as mere numbers on computers when banks make ‘loans’.   The most shocking aspect of this abhorrent fact is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Friend, 2 September 2011: “Exploding the myth of money creation by banks”</title>
		<link>http://www.quakerweb.org.uk/blog/investmnet/the-friend-2-september-2011-%e2%80%9cexploding-the-myth-of-money-creation-by-banks%e2%80%9d/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-friend-2-september-2011-%25e2%2580%259cexploding-the-myth-of-money-creation-by-banks%25e2%2580%259d</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Weekes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An article with this title by John Schmid in The Friend (2 September 2011) needs to be treated with some caution.  I strongly recommend an alternative explanation: James Robertson’s Managing the National Money Supply, from his book  Future Money: Breakdown or Breakthrough?, obtainable for free from his website at http://www.jamesrobertson.com/book/managingthenationalmoneysupply.pdf. A different  (visual) explanation of how money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A real economist: one who does understand economics …</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Weekes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[…and can write good English. See Ha-Joon Chang: Global finance has dysfunction at its heart, The Guardian, 8 August 2011.  Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/08/global-finance-dysfunction-at-heart. If only there were others like him &#8230; in positions of influence. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Banks, Banking and Finance</title>
		<link>http://www.quakerweb.org.uk/blog/zero-growth-economy/understanding-banks-banking-and-finance/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=understanding-banks-banking-and-finance</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Weekes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zero Growth Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I made a posting on 24 February (entitled The Movie “Inside Job”) which said that the version on a  UK compatible DVD would be released on 8 March.  It was not, in fact, available until earlier this month (June 2011). The earlier date refers to an offer from one retailer who would take prepublication orders at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The difficulty of responding to the wrong question …</title>
		<link>http://www.quakerweb.org.uk/blog/zero-growth-economy/the-difficulty-of-responding-to-the-wrong-question-%e2%80%a6/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-difficulty-of-responding-to-the-wrong-question-%25e2%2580%25a6</link>
		<comments>http://www.quakerweb.org.uk/blog/zero-growth-economy/the-difficulty-of-responding-to-the-wrong-question-%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Weekes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zero Growth Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I returned home this afternoon to find an e-mail with a question from a friend who is the director of an environmental NGO.  He wishes to respond to a “consultative paper” on whether Northern Ireland should be allowed to set its own rate of corporation tax. The standard argument – now firmly part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The movie &#8220;Inside job&#8221; &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.quakerweb.org.uk/blog/investmnet/the-movie-inside-job/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-movie-inside-job</link>
		<comments>http://www.quakerweb.org.uk/blog/investmnet/the-movie-inside-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Weekes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; concerns the origins and aftermath of present banking crisis as seen from an American perspective.  Surfing the internet shows that it is on release at cinemas in England, and the DVD is due for release in the UK on 8th March. The website www.sonyclassics.com/insidejob/ offers a description in more detail, and an eloquent reflection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whoops! Discussion of the book by John Lanchester</title>
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		<comments>http://www.quakerweb.org.uk/blog/uncategorized/whoops-discussion-of-the-book-by-john-lanchester/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Entwistle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zero Growth Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure others who use Quakernomics are ahead of me and have already read and digested this book. I&#8217;ve just read the last chapter &#8211; title “The Bill”. I found it reassuring in one sense. It confirms what I’ve been thinking: about a broken system; enough is enough; it’s mainly the banks’ fault; and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can anthropology shed light on the financial crisis?</title>
		<link>http://www.quakerweb.org.uk/blog/uncategorized/can-anthropology-shed-light-on-the-financial-crisis/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=can-anthropology-shed-light-on-the-financial-crisis</link>
		<comments>http://www.quakerweb.org.uk/blog/uncategorized/can-anthropology-shed-light-on-the-financial-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jo Poole</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[business ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gillian Tett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quakers and business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the recent Quaker Business Conference 2010, senior Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett explained why she thought the answer to the above question is ‘yes’. Before becoming a journalist, Gillian worked as a social anthropologist in Soviet Tajikistan while studying for a PhD. One of the things anthropologists observe is what is discussed and, perhaps [...]]]></description>
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