THOSE WHO FAVOUR secession often declare that “Scotland has the natural resources” to thrive as an independent nation. In fact, this declaration has almost become

ONE OF THE THINGS that I love about Scotland is our cultural tradition of thinking creatively. We seem to be blessed with a distancing that

A LOT OF HEAT can be produced from economic forecasts, but as we know from the Brexit debate such modelling efforts do not really shed

THE ECONOMIST Milton Friedman once suggested the US Federal Reserve could be closed down and replaced with a money supply rule targeting the control of

ANYONE who has been on Twitter will recognise the strong resistance to logical discourse among the “cluckeratti”; there is a vast cohort of Twitter users

NOT MANY PEOPLE will have read the detail of the EU rejection of a specific free trade deal for electric cars. It’s a draft response

SOME NUMBERS have given me pause for thought recently about Scotland’s future.  The first is the small poll that suggested that more than 65 per cent of

WHAT POLICY APPROACH can support the advance of post-Brexit Scotland? While our nation is being forced to disappear up its own secessionist rear end through the Neverendum Tendency, that basic economic question does not lose its importance – Scots have to make a living somewhere and we need to do a lot of trade to support our […]

AS PUBLIC DEBATE TURNS, no doubt prematurely, to when any release on our lock-down might begin I am reminded of an old Shetland tale.  A drunk

COMMENTARY on our present viral predicament is turning towards what happens when lockdown measures are released.  The left, predictably, is calling for the end of global

IF YOU HAVE EVER tried guddling for trout you will understand the trials of an observing economist in these strange times.  We’re trained to stand away from received