As new cases of the Coronavirus – COVID-19 – outside of China exceed those inside for the first time, we have to ask ourselves what next? Looking at the reactions of financial markets, governments and people around the world, fear seems to be settling in. The reaction of the financial markets has been growing in …
What trends will dominate the next decade?
As a wise sage once said: forecasting is very difficult, especially about the future. But maybe we can discern some trends that will at least help to determine the direction of the decade ahead, whilst acknowledging how little we can ever truly predict. Few people back in 2010, for instance, would have thought that in …
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What has WWII got to tell us about globalisation? The answer, a lot.
It took international co-operation, co-ordination and a subsuming of national sovereignty (British troops, for example, were under US control in some theatres) as well as a deepening of economic, political and social ties, to bring the Second World War to a close. As we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day Landings and the Battle …
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