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In August 2014, before the independence referendum, I was asked by the leading US policy journal The National Interest to write an article on ...
The question of Scottish independence is often dismissed as a romantic nationalist fantasy or a petty regional squabble ...
People across Scotland have reported to us a rise in cash machines dispensing English notes rather than Scottish currency. We ...
The Scottish Currency Group’s conference is an important step towards ensuring that when Scotland does achieve independence, it can do so on its own terms, with the tools it needs to flourish.
The Scottish Government’s paper on currency and economic policy published in October 2022 set out criteria which would see the post-independence Government retaining sterling for an indefinite ...
So when Scotland becomes an independent country, how should they go about creating a currency that can recapture their glorious financial innovation. heritage? Surely they will realise that ...
Using sterling, the weak currency of a foreign country, post-independence would prevent Scotland from controlling its own economy, keeping England in the driver’s seat. That hasn’t gone too well.
NICOLA Sturgeon's Scottish independence dream has been left in tatters after she was warned to face a huge clash with Westminster over the future of Scotland's currency following a successful ...
Supporters of sterlingization fail to realise that the currency issue is about much more than the denomination of notes and coins in circulation in an independent Scotland, notes Ronald MacDonald, ...
The motion called for the establishment of a new Scottish Central Bank immediately after independence, with the power to mint, print and distribute a new Scottish currency – a Scottish pound.
Andrew Wilson, who served as chairman of the SNP Growth Commission, warned adopting a separate Scottish currency could severely hit Scots incomes and pensions because it would swiftly devalue ...
Central-bank accounts could have reduced fraud and made administering stimulus payments easier, faster and more secure. A central-bank digital currency can also be a useful policy tool.