The is The Economist’s cover today:
This recession is nothing like previous ones and so it has to be managed very differently
I was told by an economist today that the situation that we face now is exactly like the 1930s. Without wishing to name the person
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Coronavirus QE from the Bank of England has to have conditions attached for the sake of us all
The Bank of England has now announced the creation of a coronavirus quantitative easing programme. In broad terms I welcome this, but I am concerned
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The government can create all the money we need: an explanation
I have argued that now is the time for the government to create all the money that might be needed to keep our economy going
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Why exams?
Like hundreds of thousands of other parents all over the country I now face the prospect of having a child at home for many months
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The banks are using this crisis to demand that we go back to the rules of 2007 so that they can exploit us all over again
As the Financial Times has reported this morning: The global banking industry is demanding regulators relax or delay a raft of post-crisis rules on everything
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