Zoom meetings are here to stay, but there is reason to believe that over the long term, a return to the office will have material benefits for all. Working from home appears effective in the short term where everyone knows each other, but it may not work so well in...
We know a lot about stock market crashes, much more than we know about a public health catastrophe such as that brought about by the coronavirus Covid-19. This is a blow to the world economy that has not happened since the Spanish ’flu pandemic of 1918-20. But the...
‘Investment, be it in human capital or physical infrastructure, must be the way to level the country up’. The UK has a productivity problem, everyone agrees that. Since the financial crisis of 2008-09, growth of output per worker has remained pretty much flat. Output...
Decades don’t turn out quite as you might expect. Everyone in 2000 was preoccupied with the dotcom boom, and many correctly predicted a crash. But hardly anyone foresaw that the decade would also have the worse recession since the 1930s. And for 2010 in the aftermath...