“OBR warns economy could shrink 35% in 3-month lockdown”

Apr 14, 2020 | Economy

So here’s a classic glass half full/half empty scenario. Of course the economy must shrink. Many are doing nothing or very little and being paid, at best 80% of what they were; yet many are doing a lot more. Amazon and most of the supermarkets are desperate for drivers. Hundreds are, sadly, working 24/7 to build Nightingale hospitals; as are the techies keeping the internet going and inventing ever more online meeting apps. Every cloud and all that. The imponderable is what and who will be revivable and thrivable when and if it’s all over by Christmas. Not, I’d say, Eamonn Holmes.

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“Donald Trump is winning. Business, beware”

“Donald Trump is winning. Business, beware”

There’s a perception that whatever might be the consequences for the rest of the world, Trump as President should be good for business. Surely, as a business man himself, he’d be the friend of Corporate America, and everything, money-making-wise, went pretty well last time around didn’t it?