Stopping an independent Scotland from using the pound will hurt businesses in the rest of the UK, warned the country's 's first minister. Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister, hit back Monday at ...

The UK’s chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne has come out against a currency union with Scotland in the event of a vote for independence later this year. Speaking at a press conference in ...

Edinburgh - British finance minister George Osborne warned Thursday that Scotland would have to leave the pound if it voted to become independent. Osborne said there was “no legal reason” why the rest ...

EDINBURGH, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Britain warned Scotland on Thursday it would lose the pound if Scots vote for independence, the most aggressive attempt yet to scuttle a nationalist bid to break the ...

Scotland will be voting next week on whether to secede from Great Britain, and Paul Krugman is aghast: Everything that has happened in Europe since 2009 or so has demonstrated that sharing a currency ...