IN PART 5 of this series I looked at inflationary risk. In this short essay I look at a further factor and perhaps underappreciated force
ON MY TRAVELS the vexed subject of inflationary risk splits professional investors more than any other subject. In one camp lies the inflation sceptics who
THIS GOVERNMENT has chosen to try and grow the economy though public sector stimulus. Largely a result of the lockdown public spending increased by a
IN THE THIRD of my mini-series examining the economic challenges facing the UK I look at ‘levelling up,’ the policy goal central to this Government’s
YESTERDAY I launched a mini-series looking at the challenges the UK economy faces. Today we start to look at some of the solutions. I outlined our
GIVEN THE SCALE of the challenges Britain faces, from the erosion of liberty and even free speech, to the threat of the possible break-up of
Dr Tim Rideout, an economist and the convener of the Scottish Currency Group, had an article published in The National on 18th May under the title “Claim banks would flee
AN OPEN LETTER that appeared in The Sunday Times Scotland calling on the Scottish Government to rule out plans for a referendum breaking up the UK has
NATWEST announced on 29th April that it would move its group head office to England if Scotland were to leave the UK. That would cost
THE ISSUE OF the currency of an independent Scotland has bedevilled the SNP, and so it should. The SNP seems to have accepted that Scotland
PLATITUDES are une partie du jeu, part of the game of politics. These statements, often containing moral content, become too overused to remain interesting. But when
ONE OF SCOTLAND’S most experienced care home operators has revealed that Fife Council plans to construct three care homes which, per bed, will be the