The FT has reported this morning that: Directors will be held personally responsible for the accuracy of their company’s financial statements – with fines and
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Negative interest rates are coming, but there is no chance that they will work
As The Guardian and many other newspapers reported yesterday, the Bank of England yesterday announced that it was preparing the ground for negative official interest
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Scotland has nothing to fear but fear itself
This letter was sent by the Scottish Currency Group to The Herald newspaper in Scotland yesterday in response to the LSE report I referred to
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Ten reasons why freeports are a bad idea
I was asked yesterday if I might be available to discuss freeports on the media and what my ‘top lines’ would be if I did.
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The SNP is lining up against the LSE
I was pleased to note this tweet this morning: https://twitter.com/angusmacneilsnp/status/1357483141645107202?s=21 The Tweet does, of course, refer to my commentary on the absurd LSE report in
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Why Freeports are a terrible idea
The government is proposing that there should be at least ten new freeports in the UK. These were so useless the last time that they were
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The CBI is right: we need some serious economic planning
A week or so ago one of the commentators on this blog asked if I might suggest now to be the time for a 1945
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The LSE report on the increased costs in trade for an independent Scotland is based on unsubstantiated data and absurd assumptions
I have tried hard to take seriously the new report from the LSE on the costs of Scottish independence, as measured through the supposed impediments
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Why large companies are macroeconomic entities
The accounts of all companies, from the very largest, to the very smallest, are prepared on the assumption that the organisations in question are microeconomic
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