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 …
New year, new governor, new rate regime?
As Mark Carney prepares to make way for new governor Andrew Bailey, he’s voiced the suggestion that UK interest rates could be cut if the economy wobbles in early 2020. His view may be in anticipation, as some have concluded, of an economic shock resulting from the UK’s exit from the UK on 31st January. …
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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