WE’RE currently in what they call corporate earnings season, and we’re getting a flavour of how Covid has been hitting big business. Some companies have been doing well whilst others have struggled
FOR decades, the most important basic skills taught in schools were the three “Rs” – reading, (w)riting and ‘rithmetic.
Six months on from the first Covid case in Northern Ireland, even the most pessimistic forecaster would not have predicted the whirlwind that has hit the economy in that period.
RISHI Sunak may be a relative novice as Chancellor of the Exchequer, but he is already a veteran of economic statements and has outspent all of his predecessors.
Rishi Sunak may only have been Chancellor for five months but he is already a crisis veteran. Having already splashed out hundreds of billions of pounds worth of support (£281.5 billion since March 11), his latest summer statement added a further £30bn.
We need a shock and awe policy response to deal with the situation our young people currently find themselves in. If we don’t, the mother of all educational crises and a weak economic recovery awaits.
