Beware ‘confident’ predictions when it comes to Covid-19

What will be the longer-term effects of the Covid-19 crisis? The English statesman Sir George Savile,1st Marquess of Halifax, once said that the best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory. So perhaps we should look back, not forward. One useful starting point when trying to make sense of the crisis might be to return to the previous crisis, the Great Recession.

 

Read Matthew Goodwin’s full article in Spears  here.