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A sterling argument over fiscal control

We're all economists now, God help us.

It is our fate to drivel on for years about aggregate demand, deficits and who, statistically speaking, ate all the pies. Watch while I contain my excitement.

Politicians call this "the real debate" over independence. Among voters, there was probably the tiny hope someone would come up with numbers we could trust and be done with it.