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Pension funds urged to back Scotland’s economy without risking returns OVER the last couple of months, the Scottish Currency Group has, in its articles for The National, been exploring the theme of “investing in…

INVESTING IN OURSELVES PART 6

Here is this week's article in The National from the SCG - published on Monday April 13th

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Community wealth – Scotland needs new ideas from our next MSPs - Bylines Scotland Scotland’s new MSPs face a crucial choice: embrace community wealth building or risk squandering a transformative economic opportunity

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UPDATE ON THE SCOTONOMICS/SCG JOINT PAPER "THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT BOND PROGRAMME AND INVESTING IN OURSELVES" from William Thomson

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Get Palantir out of UK public services The UK has handed Palantir dozens of public contracts, including with the NHS, even as the dangers of empowering a class of big tech oligarchs become clear. Palantir has supplied military technology t...

Palantir’s technologies are used by the powerful to attack the powerless. This company should not be involved in our public services. Sign this petition if you agree act.globaljustice.org.uk/get-palantir...

Ministers explore triggering break clause in Palantir’s NHS contract Government is under pressure to eject the controversial American company from NHS England data systems

Let's keep up the pressure: #PalantirOut.

First the NHS, then defence contracts

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Ministers explore triggering break clause in Palantirs NHS contract.

Ministers are reportedly exploring how to cancel dangerous spy-tech firm Palantir's contract to handle NHS data after over 150k people joined me in calling on them to break the contract.

Join us - together we can kick out Palantir out of our NHS:

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Happily, Scotland's Government rejected Palantir,

Despites the howls of outrage from the usual suspects.

It is good to have grown-ups in the room.

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Local government pension funds can well afford to invest in the future of our country In Scotland, we need to invest in ourselves and reduce our reliance on foreign investment

INVESTING IN OURSELVES - PART 5

This is this week's article in The National from the SCG, continuing the theme of "investing in ourselves".

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Why would you assume it is beyond Scotland's reach to establish a central bank and currency? Bearing in mind it can't be done before. Please see the SCG website for our proposals and much more - we agree with you that they are essential to material independence and stability

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Episode 371 - You Can't Vote Away Colonialism with Fadhel Kaboub Economist Fadhel Kaboub explains why the Global South cannot thrive without first achieving structural economic decolonization – and why MMT is essential, but not sufficient, for the task.

Lessons for Scotland re economic independence in this podcast - a struggle the global south is still in. Scotland mustn't miss the chance to lay the foundations to extricate ourselves. Starts with our own currency from the early days/months of independence.

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It’s time we fought against the weaponisation of jobs It’s a political decision to balance budgets on the backs of working families, writes Pavlina Tcherneva

Pavlina Tcherneva will be speaking at Scotlands Economic Festival, in Leith, on Saturday 20th March.

"..We stop trickle-down. And we start bottom-up. We spend to create jobs, jobs for all, good jobs with decent wages and family-sustaining benefits.”
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Local authority pension funds have a big part to play in community wealth building IN a series of articles published in The National on January 19 and February 2 and 16, the Scottish Currency Group (SCG) has argued that in Scotland…

INVESTING IN OURSELVES

This is today's article from the SCG in The National. It is the 4th article in the "Investing in Ourselves" series

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Richard Murphy: Where an indy Scotland will need an honesty that is lacking in the UK I WAS pleased to see the report in The National on the work of Professor Graeme Roy, Professor Niall MacKenzie and Sandy Stewart. Their work was…

This article from Richard Murphy in The National today nicely complements the SCG article on LGPS funds and fiduciary duty. It appears on the same 2 page spread in the printed and digital editions - well done the editors at The National.

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Only one way to do that effectively, definitively and under representative democracy in Scotland - independence and our own currency mobilising our own resources. It would be nice to see you as a party have some real ambition for Scotland.

Publications repository - Scottish Currency Group Downloads of these publications are available to all, at present: click the “Download Now” box below the relevant publication to read it. If you prefer printed copies of SCG reports click this link.

A new report from the SCG has been published today and is available on the SCG website at

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The two recent papers continue the theme of "In Scotland WE Need to Invest in Ourselves" which has been the subject of several articles in The National and others to come.

It's more of a retrospective view from Prof Roy plus the limitations of the current fiscal Framework. What SCG is saying is more can be done by using CWB thinking in all areas in the Scot Econ, including SG bonds. Obviously a Scottish currency is the replacement for said WM hand post Indy

Archived version of article
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The UK fiscal framework puts the SG in a bind but short term thinking is making it worse. More can be done if an !investing in ourselves" mindset is adopted (ie applying community wealth building in practice. See recent SCG articles

Few resources and many commitments: fiscal reality for next Parliament Elections are about choices but choices must be understood within the fiscal environment in which they will be made

We can do more even within the fiscal cage muntil we finally achieve our independence
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The self-financing state: An institutional analysis This paper is an institutional analysis of government expenditure, revenue collection and debt issuance operations in the United Kingdom.

Copy of the analysis of U.K. spending and tax referred to in the article

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A great article in The National today from Ciaran McKenna.

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Sure but that's about SG choices on how to apportion the fixed budget. Those choices don't change the budget Scotland gets. Independence is for Scots to decide and for that we need accurate information on the reality of our economy instead of unionist propaganda

An AI graphic based on our new page on the SCG website. Feel free to share it widely.

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We keep trying - the EU and Westminster are responding to recent events and developing more independent payments systems, the SG should take the hint how crucial it is and start to plan ahead

The most obvious takeaway from the paper is we should have been using income from offshore as part of Scotland's totals from the early 1970s. GERS was first published in 1992, the paper casts an ugly shadow over these stats.

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