Following the U.S. and China, Argentina unveiled studies that promised they would move beyond independence and towards an export market within years.

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Ahead of its publication this morning, the Institute for Fiscal Studies assessment of the prospects for Scottish independence was being dismissed as coming from the "too poor, too stupid school of scaremongering".

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Even studies by ethanol fans concede that achieving energy independence via ethanol requires bullish assumptions.

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