Government-backed small business loans may have kept many small businesses going in the last year, but they’ve also been great news for the UK’s banks, who
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This post began life as a Twitter thread. It builds on a post made here, yesterday. Some added charts and links have been included. —–
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There are moments when it is wise to think a reconsideration is appropriate. My suggestion for perpetual debt did not go down well yesterday. But
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Do you remember that very poor joke from Liam Byrne about the UK having run out of money? It cost Labour dear. But now the
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The discussion that was organised by the Scottish Currency Group that addressed this issue last Sunday has now been issued as a YouTube video: Those
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There is concern that bank base rate increases will impact the cost of central bank reserve accounts which have effectively replaced around £800 billion of
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I took part in a debate on the need for a Scottish Central Reserve Bank yesterday. This was run as a parallel event to the
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The post that follows started, as a number now do, as a Twitter thread. That’s because their reach is much bigger than this blog. Some
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Regular readers will recall that in August I raised concern when the UK Office for National Statistics claimed that simultaneously UK national debt had exceeded
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