Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light. (View Post)

This is one of those occasions where economists have only a step or two’s advantage over everyone else. There isn’t exactly much data on the economic effects of pandemics in a globalised economy. For… (View Post)

As I’ve mentioned before, my partner and I have a holiday house in rural Hungary. It’s a quiet village, few streetlights, next to no traffic. One January, it’s my turn to fly out there for the weeken… (View Post)

For myself, this tweet from a very smart IT guy in Japan sums up nicely where we are: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1250304959867785217?s=21 (View Post)

Last Wednesday is the last day where reporting will not have been particularly affected by the bank holiday weekend. It’s far too soon to say that it was the peak. The most you could say is that it i… (View Post)