On-line food start-ups, delivery companies and health care ventures are booming in Europe. It is the same story in South East Asia. Data modelling, video-conferencing, surveillance tools, tracing apps, plant-based…
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The threat of a second, significant wave of infections cannot be ruled out. In the UK, the Conservative Government argues that ending the lockdown too soon, precipitating another spike in…
Click here for the full report President Trump is eager to lift restrictions and get Americans back to work. Official projections for the final death toll in the US…
The debate over shutdowns is intensifying. Spain and Italy are winning the first round of the war on Covid 19. There will inevitably be further infections when the restrictions on…
The longer term costs of using economic shutdowns to contain Covid-19 have not been evaluated. In fairness, the UK Government seems determined to avoid a total shutdown, ordering builders’ merchants…
Undocumented infections have allowed Covid-19 to spread rapidly across the US, engulfing New York state (117 deaths). The number of Covid-19 deaths in the US is now up to 404….
A reminder, that Covid-19 and the environmental degradation that is driving climate change are inextricably linked, comes from this timely article. President Trump persists with his divide and rule narrative…
The ‘decisive’ action taken by central banks on Sunday lacked a critical component: yield curve control (YCC). Without YCC, central banks will not be able to anchor financial markets. Fiscal…
It is one thing to be the epi-centre of a virus that causes acute disruption to global supply chains. It is quite another to then be responsible for a pandemic…
Global panic, but strong hiring…… The answer to Covid-19 is not rate cuts. The point was made in last week’s commentary and bears repeating. The US economy was fundamentally very…
