RUTH SUNDERLAND: There’s hope this house price boom may be far from over

RUTH SUNDERLAND: There’s hope this house price boom may be far from over By Ruth Sunderland Business Editor For The Daily Mail Published: 00:59 GMT, 21 January 2021 | Updated: 01:00 GMT, 21 January 2021 COVID-19 has caused more damage to the UK economy than any other crisis in living memory, yet the housing market … Read more

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Divisive, vindictive… let’s give this idea for tax grabs on property short shrift

The pandemic has left a chasm in the national finances, and it rests on the slender shoulders of Rishi Sunak to ensure our Covid debts are not insupportable. But he should resist siren calls to attempt this through tax grabs on property and other wealth. If the Chancellor is as astute as I believe him … Read more

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Ethics will pay a dividend post Covid

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Trust depends on competence and ethics, to regain it in a post-Covid world, businesses must live up to new, higher expectations Trust, social cohesion and good governance are key to any sound business – and of a sound economy  Businesses have the chance to regain the trust they lost in the financial crisis … Read more

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Covid loosening baby boomer dominance

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: Lessons learned from a plague year

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

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Wealth taxes don’t work

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: Old are valuable asset to economy

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 rides to the rescue

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

RUTH SUNDERLAND analyses the fallout as Debenhams and Arcadia go to the wall 

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