I have been asked to provide an explanation of how Green Infrastructure Quantitative Easing would work as a result of the speech I made this
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Financing the Scottish economy: my talk this morning
I am in Crieff in Perthshire this morning to address the annual conference of COSLA – the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities. This is (give
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I am on Twitter
I am aware I have not blogged yet this morning. That’s because I arrived in Perthsire at midnight last night and have been in a
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Is Mr Carney playing double bluff?
The FT has reported that: Mark Carney says it would be “foolish” to cut interest rates or expand quantitative easing in response to falling oil
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Tonight in Edinburgh
The Taxpayers’ Alliance in Cloud Cuckoo Land
I was amused to note the absurd suggestions the Taxpayers’ Alliance made to balance the government’s books in an advance copy of a policy document
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Does Jeremy Clarkson matter?
The BBC has suspended Jeremy Clarkson. No one is quite sure what he has done this time. And so why do I think it matters
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The untouchable
There will be a rabbit in the hat
The FT notes this morning that: George Osborne is looking at relaxing the Treasury’s assumption of deep austerity over the next five years in next week’s
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