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HAMISH MCRAE: Creating conditions for growth is Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s way out of the current crisis By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 26 September 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 26 September 2020 A winter chill swept through the markets and the economy last week. The package of support from Rishi Sunak … Read more
HAMISH MCRAE: If we can emerge from all this with a better educated, more resilient workforce, then this is good news for the future By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 BST, 19 September 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 19 September 2020 We cannot choose the moment to be born – or indeed … Read more
HAMISH MCRAE: This is not an argument for a punch-up with the European Union, but deal or no deal Brexit doesn’t really matter By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 BST, 12 September 2020 | Updated: 22:23 BST, 12 September 2020 The trade row with Europe was always going to go to the … Read more
Hong Kong citizens are coming to the rescue of the London property market – and they are coming here to live, not just to buy properties as an investment. The reasons are obvious. Since the crackdown on dissent by China and the British Government’s response of offering a path to UK citizenship, the case for … Read more
HAMISH MCRAE: As coronavirus threat recedes, companies that are more relaxed about home-working will lose ground to those that are more driven By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 BST, 29 August 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 29 August 2020 Summer’s almost gone, winter’s coming on – as Bob Dylan and others sang … Read more
HAMISH MCRAE: Eventually inflation will come through, interest rates will shoot up – and bond investors lose a packet By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:53 BST, 22 August 2020 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 22 August 2020 Deflation or inflation? It can’t be both and it matters massively to all of us which … Read more
So how was the holiday in France then? If going abroad means there is a risk that you have to quarantine when you get back, you will think twice about travelling. For holidaymakers that is a huge inconvenience. For many companies the impact is more radical, for it means they have to rethink everything about … Read more
The Bank of England says on Thursday that this will be the deepest dip in the economy for a hundred years. Then on Friday, the Halifax reports that house prices hit an all-time record in July. It is certainly a strange juxtaposition – so what’s going on? The UK is not alone in this contrast … Read more
When there are seismic shifts in the economy, the companies that will triumph are those that can get ahead of social and economic change rather than be beaten by it. And that is why the John Lewis Partnership should be a beacon for other enterprises faced with a massive challenge. For some firms, obviously the … Read more
HAMISH MCRAE: If our city centres remain ghost towns it will be a social disaster as well as an economic one Walk across the City’s financial district and it is a ghost town Boris Johnson quite understandably has urged people to go back to their offices By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:54 … Read more