{"id":42862,"date":"2018-08-22T06:57:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T05:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=42862"},"modified":"2018-08-22T06:57:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T05:57:12","slug":"an-independent-scotland-will-need-its-own-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/08\/22\/an-independent-scotland-will-need-its-own-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"An independent Scotland will need its own currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gather my friends at Common Weal are launching their campaign for an independent Scotland to have its own currency today. This was a contribution to that debate I made a year or so ago, but it\u2019s worth sharing again:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Journey to Yes #16 Economy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4C8trs8mGhk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gather my friends at Common Weal are launching their campaign for an independent Scotland to have its own currency today. This was a contribution<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/08\/22\/an-independent-scotland-will-need-its-own-currency\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,174,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-modern-monetary-theory","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}