Apologies for the lack of posts from me this month, should improve a bit now. Real world work has been very busy which I guess is a good thi...

Yesterday's excellent post on the dire May/Hammond combo made me think about how alternative realities may have come to pass. The events...

 So with the vaccine first phase roll out going very well and the lockdown working from a cases perspective, we have seen two weeks now in t...

At the time of writing the FTSE100 is off around 2% on the day, a small blip but still well up in the beginning of the year. Most years, aft...

This Covid-2019 is so hard to manage. After a six months it does not seem that much the Government do makes a lot of difference to managing ...

Another week of Covid-19 starts and frankly now we are on episode eighteen the real action is now starting to take place. On the political...

With the Corona Virus in the UK seemingly evaporating at the moment, we may see a V shaped recovery for the economy. This would be amazing n...

It has been a long time coming, but finally the penny is dropping that lockdown is over and the Covid party can start to end. Unfortunately,...

Here are we, about 10 weeks into the depths of the crisis. It came very suddenly and took the whole of the West by surprise. East Asian coun...

Virgin are closing their hub airport at Gatwick. This is very bad news for those who work in and near the airport. Virgin has been a mainsta...

So (congrats Boris!) I saw snuck out this week by the Prime Minister was finally a review of how people enter the UK. Now the virus is under...

This is the biggest unknown question at the moment  - jut how bad is Covid-19 and how bad is the economy? Boris is back at work today, but...

As night follows day, so the media hyperventilating about the need for a hard lockdown have switched to demanding an end to it. The lockdo...

I really hope the Government can do a better job of Lockdown undoing than they did of doing it in the first place. If we remember those he...

Herd immunity, a phrase spat out by Beth Rigby and Adam Boulton, is in fact the only route out of our crisis. A six month lockdown is not go...

A couple of weeks ago I did a piece on Black Swan s involving some technical stuff on risk management, and someone asked if there was more. ...

In normal times, markets are a keep lifeblood of a capitalist economy. They send the singal to participants and the Government about the sta...

As we know the virus is currently laying waste to the UK economy. The Leisure and Tourism industries combined are over £400 billion of reven...

The worst economic crisis of my life was the 2008 financial crash. As readers will know, we had long forseen a crunch coming in the credit m...

 I Know I am like a broken record now, but this is a very tough morning economically for the the world and for the UK. Don't fancy being...