In my column in The National newspaper in Scotland yesterday I wrote: I happen to think that political economy is at least as important as
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Consigning the sterlingisation zombie to history
It is big news when an issue to which this blog has contributed makes it to be an FT headline, but it happened this morning:
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Why won’t the SNP’s leadership let its members take the lead on the currency?
As The National newspaper has reported in Scotland this morning: The Alba Party has said it will do the “heavy policy lifting” on independence after
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Central banks should not have the power to cause harm, as the Bank of England has at present
As some readers of this column will know, I write a weekly column for The National newspaper in Scotland. In yesterday’s column, I tackled the
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There is one issue to be resolved before Scotland can ever consider independence – and that is what currency it will use, to which there is only one answer
A week ago I posted here on the Scottish currency issue, in the context of a stooshie (English: kerfuffle) I had created when commenting on
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There is no point in the SNP saying there will be another referendum with the currency issue still in the air
When I wrote a quick tweet referring to the SNP on Saturday I did not expect the reaction that followed. Now my follow up post
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Why the SNP leadership needs to work for an independence for the benefit of the people of Scotland and not for the benefit of financial markets
It seemed that I caused a bit of a stooshie in Scotland yesterday by suggesting that the SNP leadership were Tories who did not like
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Martin Sandbu says that Scotland should end up in the euro but his argument is wrong on almost every conceivable basis
Martin Sandbu notes in the FT this morning that [I]t seems to me that a choice for independence would be motivated in part by a
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Scotonomics and the Green New Deal
I did a Youtube meeting with the Scotonomics team of Kairin van Sweeden and William Thomson last night, roaming over a whole range of green
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