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Seven ways to tackle inflation without raising interest rates

Corporate Knights

There are many causes of inflation, but there’s only one solution central banks seem willing to consider: increase interest rates. And won’t it make essential green investments more difficult? s $3-trillion GDP economy with the explicit purpose of sustaining aggregate demand, and the Bank of Canada did likewise.

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Solvency II: Roadblocks to Sustainable Investments Remain Despite Reforms

Chris Hall

UK ministers enthuse about the post-Brexit potential to unleash a new wave of green investment, but not everybody is convinced. In part, this piece of Brussels law-making was a response to the collapse in September 2008, at the height of the financial crisis, of the world’s largest insurer, American International Group.