I am well aware that human behaviour tends to revert to the norm. I suspect we all know that. Our assumption is that after periods
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If coronavirus is going to prove anything it is how wrong she was: Actually, we all live in utterly interdependent societies. Hat tip. 

Whilst coronavirus dominates the news, some other agendas are still being pursued. For example, the Culture Secretary (Oliver Dowden, in case you had never heard
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I wrote yesterday about the changes that I thought necessary within our economy to ensure that as many people as possible might make it safely,
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I’m sharing a large chunk of this comment from the FT because it is important: Andrew Bailey, the incoming governor of the Bank of England,
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I was one of quite a lot of people to co-sign this letter: “The Bank of England must lead the way on climate change” Open
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I have already discussed the potential economic implications of coronavirus this morning. The purpose of this blog is to summarise the underlying economic logic of
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I suggested that interest rate cuts would not address the economic consequences of the coronavirus before the markets issued their quite emphatic agreement yesterday evening.
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The Fed has cut interest rates by 0.5%. No doubt the Bank of England will do something similar sometime soon. And both are pushing on
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