In the pandemic panic, policymakers the world over have rushed to splash cash. ‘Helicopter money,’ dropped like manna from the sky into the wallets of ordinary citizens (and perhaps designed to be remembered come polling
Of all the global companies that might come to the rescue of the traditional corporate office, Facebook was not expected to be at the front of the line. As Covid-19 turns cities into ghost towns
Before Covid-19 gripped the world in a pandemic, myriad forecasts were made about the transfer of risk from the public to the private sector. With rising populations, governments would rely increasingly on private investors and
“Never before has so much of an EU budget been allocated to combating climate change,” declared Svenja Schulze, Germany’s Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety on July 21st, after a five-day inter-governmental summit