There are a number of annoying issues one has to live with if engaging in discussion on Scottish economic policy. One of the biggest is
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I am struggling with an article by Keith Brown MSP in The National this morning. In it he argues: This week’s GERS figures show that
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There were 19,936 reads of this blog yesterday, the tenth highest ever. If you want to know what that means it says that people in
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I have already commented on the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland statement, issued today. What the statement suggests is that Scotland ran a deficit on
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I have had the GERS data for fifteen minutes when starting to write this. Don’t expect miracles as yet. But Table 1 told me most
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Today is what is known as GERS day in Scotland. This means it is the day when the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland statement is published.
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COMMONSPACE FORUM: A Green New Deal for Scotland, with Richard Murphy Thursday 29 August, 7.30pm, Glasgow, Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall Street, G41 1BA FULL
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This comment was in the letter from Boris Johnson to Donald Tusk relating to the Northern Ireland backstop, to which I have already referred: The
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I am not going to say that it’s a fact of life that everything reverts to the mean. Partly that’s because that’s not true of
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