The eight-year programme of cuts to budgets for running Scottish public services is only 40% over. The analysis, by the Centre for Publi...

A crisis is caused by capitalists choosing not to buy, that is, not to invest profits because they judge they won't make any profits ...

The problem of the crisis is gaining the attention of people worldwide. This is because the present crisis is of unprecedented scale, and u...

Blair Jenkins, chief executive of the Yes Scotland campaign, claimed that Scotland “might very well not have had a financial crisis” if it ...

The annual assessment of hunger and homelessness conducted by the US Conference of Mayors reveals that the number of homeless people in 25 ...

Some 26 of 30 countries covered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have shown a falling labor share of national i...

A previous post concerned the Darien Scheme. Not many Scots however know of Gregor Macgregor, Prince of Poyais, Poyais being not far up th...

In a hard-hitting speech to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, businessman Professor Charles Munn said that, as a society, “we...

Scotland's struggling shops have been dealt a fresh blow today as figures reveal that the numbers of shoppers plunged in the run-up to ...

Scotland faces "five more years of pain" with unemployment rates expected to outstrip the UK average and hit their highest level...

One in nine Scottish shops is lying empty as the retail sector slowdown shows no sign of easing, new figures have revealed . Scotland’s stor...

Official figures released last month by the Accountant in Bankruptcy showed that a record number of Scottish firms went to the wall in the ...

Areas such as West Dunbartonshire and East Ayrshire have overtaken inner London boroughs as the hardest places in the country to find work,...

The typical household will see its disposable income fall by 2 per cent this year, the equivalent of £780, an economist warned today . Roger...

In his first television interview of the year, Cameron, facing a possible spring of discontent as unions consider co-ordinating strikes agai...

Cuts in public spending could wipe out up to 125,000 jobs in Scotland – about 5% of the working population – within the next financial ye...

The World Bank is issuing even bleaker warnings about rising poverty and hunger in the developing world. Initially, it estimated that 46 ...

Charities estimate that more than 8,000 buy-to-let properties could be repossessed in the coming year, with at least 10,000 people being m...

First discussed here , we now read that the UK government are now going to finance similar therapy services in England to help identify th...

Up to five million homeowners could be in negative equity by the end of this year if house prices continue to fall, research has claimed And...