“UK economy pays ‘spectacular’ price for slow lockdown”

Aug 13, 2020 | Economy

You really don’t need me to comment on news that we’re now ‘technically’ in recession. Our Great British, collective common sense should tell us that it was inevitable, given that everything except Waitrose and the internet shut down too late and for 3 months. What next? That same common sense will tell you that there’ll be lots of job losses, but everything may revive more quickly than expected; that taxes may need to go up, but everything may revive more quickly than expected. Etc. Your investments, however, though they will always go down as well as up, are still likely to earn you a lot more than your bank account at the moment. If you hang on in there. In the words of the world’s richest investment guru, Warren Buffett: ‘When’s the right time to invest? When you have money to invest!”

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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?