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Kilt trip: Why Scotland is preparing to issue bonds
It was during his one and only conference address as SNP leader that Humza Yousaf announced the Scottish Government would begin issuing bonds. Overshadowed by an unlikely council tax freeze, a rabbit in the hat seemingly inserted into the speech at the last minute, the news of this new form of government borrowing gained precious little coverage at the time other than the odd withering editorial drawing comparisons between Scotland and Venezuela. [...]