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We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Currencies news every morning. It was not a surprise, but I remain disappointed that the Scottish Nationalists do not plan to ...
LONDON – In for a penny, in for a pound. There'll be no going back if Scotland votes for independence from the United Kingdom on Sept. 18. Opinion polls showing that may happen have prompted ...
Scotland has four "options" for a currency if it goes independent, according to this House of Commons report: using the pound in a currency union with Britain.
A separate Scotland could use the UK’s currency without its consent – much in the way that Panama employs the U.S. dollar and similar to how Ireland once pegged itself to the pound.
My colleague Tim Worstall argues correctly that an independent Scotland would still be able to use the pound if it chose. Just as the US has no power to prevent Panama, Ecuador and even Zimbabwe ...
The nationalists, led by Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond, hope Scotland will still use the pound through a currency union with what’s left of Britain -- Wales, Northern Ireland and England.
In truth, it is only one plan – a new Scottish currency. Whether a country has a fixed or floating currency, or a linked exchange rate regime, ...
If a knockout blow is dealt to Scotland's 307-year union with England, LONDON (AP) — In for a penny, in for a pound. There'll be no going back if Scotland votes for independence from the United ...
As Nicola Sturgeon presses for a second Scottish independence referendum, key questions being asked include what type of currency the nation would use after quitting the union. Scotland Scottish ...
Last week the U.K.'s Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties got together to administer a Flodden-style thrashing to Alex Salmond's dream of an independent Scotland using the pound. But ...
Many argue it was the currency question that lost the Yes campaign the referendum. In the first 2014 leaders TV debate, Alistair Darling accused Alex Salmond of “guesswork, fingers crossed and ...
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