"Why the drop in economic productivity?  Because our spiv economy of rogue banks and hedge fund speculators don’t invest in plant and machinery, new technology and training workers.  But then our new Chancellor comes from this spiv economy.  No wonder he thinks “the fundamentals” are sound."
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk

"In Insider today: Scotland was the only UK nation to see growth among builders accelerate in the last three months, with an increase in both workloads and enquiries, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) Scotland. The trade association’s State of Trade Survey for the second quarter of 2019, which assesses the SME construction sector, found that in Scotland in terms of the overall score for workloads, expected workloads and enquiries, had an increase of 23 percentage points compared to the previous quarter."
https://thoughtcontrolscotland.com

"Let me summarise it like this. Keith Brown is the slave of defunct economic thinking that does not represent the way that any economy now works, or the way in which the Scottish economy should work. He wants to ensnare the future of Scotland to bankers, most of whom will be in London. The people of Scotland want an independent future where they are in charge of their own destiny, and their government works to achieve it. The SNP has to change its economic thinking to ensure that future is delivered. It really is time it woke up to the need to do so."
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk

"At a quick glance it looks like a London job adds almost exactly three times as much value to the UK economy as a whole as a South Scotland job. And let's be honest, a quick glance is often taken as plenty to dismiss the economics of independence in the media. But there is a problem, which is that the 'agglomeration effect' is measured without any reference to the many other factors which influence GVA. The Sheffield University report strips those factors out one by one to assess what like-for-like productivity would be."
https://www.commonspace.scot