economics

Higher taxes, but more money in your pocket, too

14/07/201322/07/2013 thomas 3 Comments

When people discuss proposals such as the Common Weal, you often hear complaints that taxes would have to be sky-high

04/07/201322/07/2013 thomas 1 Comment

In their book Going South: Why Britain will have a Third World Economy by 2014, Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson

03/06/201317/01/2014 thomas 7 Comments

At the moment, most people seem to think that an independent Scotland should either stay in a monetary union with

02/05/201302/05/2013 thomas 0 Comments

The Better Together campaigners seem to claim the Yes side are conducting a civil war on the currency issue (whether

22/04/201322/04/2013 thomas 7 Comments

Scotland currently has a very strange currency set-up — we’re technically speaking using the pound sterling, just as England, but

14/04/2013 thomas 27 Comments

There’s an interesting article by Larry Elliott in The Guardian today. He neatly sums up why Margaret Thatcher was a

28/01/201328/01/2013 thomas 2 Comments

Edinburgh, October 2005, a photo by landhere on Flickr. What will happen in 2015 if Scotland has just voted Yes