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RUTH SUNDERLAND: Economy that emerges from Covid rubble will be very different – youngsters who come of age in Generation Pandemic will lead way Demographics will have a huge effect on the UK and other developed economies in the coming years The baby boomer stranglehold is being broken, slowly, perhaps, but the pandemic will speed … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: New Year is always a time for reflection but never more so than the strange, muted first days of 2021 – so what have we learned? Lives and businesses have changed in ways that would have been unimaginable at the start of 2020 In business, Covid-19 has delivered a coup de grace to … Read more
The failings of City watchdogs is not a tremendously festive subject, but it is an important one. Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, has been in the firing line over the collapse of a firm called London & Capital Finance, which went under while he was chief executive of the Financial Conduct … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: Persecution of supposedly rich, whilst imagining rest of us can escape share of bill not realistic way to repair national balance sheet Covid-19, a virus with no respect for wealth or status, has reminded us of our common humanity It has also exposed deep inequalities – we may be in the same storm … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: Affluent ‘young-old’ have amassed billions of savings before and during pandemic and will be spending it once virus has been tamed As a society, we are conflicted in our attitudes to old age and the economics of an ageing population We are simultaneously protective and dismissive, a contradiction that has been highlighted by … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: Business is up to the challenge of using coronavirus as a catalyst for change – as long as politicians don’t muck it up Many of those going under are victims of their over-indebtedness and bad management, not the virus The coronavirus vaccine has the potential to pull us out of our financial funk … Read more
This is, without a doubt, the bleakest moment on Britain’s high streets since the Second World War. Only the demise of Woolworths, in the financial crisis of 2008, comes anywhere near to the tragedy this week as two of the biggest names in British retail have been brought to their knees. Once the grande dame … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: Setting up Treasury North on Teesside would be a huge show of faith – it would be an investment that will deliver real returns Rishi Sunak sees himself as a Northern Chancellor but does not conform to the old Andy Capp stereotype His plan to tilt the balance of economic power away from … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: Investing in the regions will see us through the current crisis – but the money is languishing unproductively in our pensions Chancellor Rishi Sunak plans to plough billions over five years into transport, digital, housing, energy and green projects Final salary pension funds sit on around £2trillion of assets By Ruth Sunderland for the … Read more
How will we keep the lights on in the UK? Calls to combat climate change have gained traction in the pandemic, as Covid-19 has heightened sensitivities to risks of other kinds. In the thick of one catastrophe, policymakers have become more receptive to avoiding others. But the idea that we can meet our energy needs … Read more