{"id":3565,"date":"2011-06-28T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=3565"},"modified":"2011-06-28T00:52:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T23:52:53","slug":"alex-salmonds-mysterious-case-of-missing-monetary-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/06\/alex-salmonds-mysterious-case-of-missing-monetary-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Salmond&#8217;s mysterious case of missing monetary words"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cthe lesson we draw from our neighbours in Ireland \u2013 the Celtic Tiger economy \u2013 where annual growth has averaged more than 6% over the past two decades, is that with the right strategy, there are no limits to success in the modern global economy&#8230; of course we Scots are lucky enough to have the one of the best brands in the world \u2013 a global recognition and affection for our culture that money cannot buy.<\/p>\n<p>Take financial services. With RBS and HBOS \u2013 two of the world\u2019s biggest banks \u2013 Scotland has global leaders today, tomorrow and for the long-term. And a growing number of American firms \u2013 not least JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and State Street \u2013 are discovering that the Scottish financial sector can do anything you can do&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now why would Alex Salmond want this speech from 2008 to disappear?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cthe lesson we draw from our neighbours in Ireland \u2013 the Celtic Tiger economy \u2013 where annual growth has averaged more than 6% over the past two decades, is that with the right strategy, there are no limits to success in the modern global economy&#8230; of course we Scots are lucky enough to have the one of the best brands in the world \u2013 a global recognition and affection for our culture that money cannot buy. Take financial services. With RBS and HBOS \u2013 two of the world\u2019s biggest banks \u2013 Scotland has global leaders today, tomorrow and for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,54],"tags":[2368,2369,2370,117],"class_list":["post-3565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-politics","tag-alx-salmond","tag-celtic-tiger","tag-finance","tag-scotland","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-Vv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}