I have been obsessed with the referendum on Scottish independence these last few months. Now that a poll has come out suggesting 'Yes' might actually win, Westminster has been running around like chickens with their heads cut off to try and find a way to prevent the breakup of the UK. It's possible that up until last weekend I was paying more attention to the Scots than the government was. But now it's real, and it's happening in one week. We watched one of the televised debates, more's the pity, as it was a shoutfest and a bunch of "we'll use the pound" "no you won't" "yes we will". The questions of how the breakup would occur, and how Scotland would work afterward, are real, but the politicians haven't been offering any real evidence, one way or the other. Even Paul Krugman, who usually has a pretty steady head on, just came out with seemingly random words (to be fair, maybe based on what the politicans were saying). I think having a plan is important. I think you work the details out once you decide it's happening, not before. Either way, it's going to get more exciting as the days go by, and next Friday we may get a whole new country!