Wednesday 11 March is proving to be a day of stimulus for the UK economy as both central bankers and politicians do what they can to fend off the economic impacts of Covid-19. The Bank of England (BoE) unanimously decided on an emergency rate cut of 50 percentage...
Even though 2020 is a leap year, I do not think many people will have been glad of the extra day in February. It has been a fairly miserable month; storms have raged, locusts have swarmed and coronavirus is causing pandemonium. You could be forgiven for thinking it is...
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...