With apologies to my non-Scottish readers, what is happening there continues to be of economic and political interest when the rUK only has Brexit and
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Would the neoliberals leave Scotland alone.
The Times has (gleefully) reported this morning that: An independent Scotland would have to move quickly to cut its deficit and face a choice between
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Bill Mitchell is right: The Scottish Growth Commission report sets up Scotland to fail
Bill Mitchell has published a two part analysis of the Scottish Growth Commission report. I strongly recommend reading both. There is not a Rizzla paper
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Nicola Sturgeon will have to admit the Growth Commission called the currency issue incorrectly if IndyRef2 is to succeed
Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP leader, has responded to the criticisms that I and others have made of the Scotish Growth Commission’s report that her government
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Sterlingisation would be a disaster for Scotland
The Twitter thread is by Ben Wray of Common Space and is worth sharing in my view. And I know there is supposedly software to do
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It’s time to throw off fear
Ian McWhirter in the Sunday Herald newspaper described me in this way yesterday: The Keynesian finance expert, Richard Murphy, of Tax Research – a prominent ally
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The future of Scotland will be decided by money
A little dust has settled on the report of the Scottish Growth Commission. Some unionists are trying to say the growth numbers don’t stack: on
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The Scottish Growth Commission looks like it is buying into far too many right wing myths on tax
THE Scottish Growth Commission report is intended to provoke discussion. I am not enamoured by its suggestions on either monetary or fiscal economic policy, but what
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There is a route to Scottish independence – but it’s not via the Growth Commission’s recommendations
It seems only appropriate, in view of my comments this morning on the Scottish Sustainable Growth Commission report, to mention that Common Weal has offered
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