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Analysis of Scotland's economy, and of the arguments made about it.
How do we define fiscal sustainability?
This post is written as a direct response to a question posed in a comment on my previous post. I'm not going to offer a personal phd thesis here, so let's look at how the EU answers this question. For existing member…
Why the GERS deficit doesn't matter
Every year there's a big stramash when the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) figures are released. I am more guilty than most of wading into the online debate, furiously waving my graphs and obsessively…
Did Fraser of Allander say to ignore the GERS figures?
It happens every year and it's all rather tedious - but this is the first of a series of blogs I will write debunking myths or false narratives currently being pushed by nationalists on X, Facebook, Tiktok, Reddit and…
Chokkablog 2.0
In 2013 I started blogging because I was interested in the arguments being made in advance of the 2014 independence referendum - let's call that Chokkablog 1.0. The blog became much larger than I could ever have…