economics

Scottish Independence within the EU – with a Scandinavian Slant

Higher taxes, but more money in your pocket, too

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

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

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

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

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

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

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