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Did the Covid-19 local lockdowns reduce business activity in the UK?

BankUnderground

This paper analyses Covid lockdowns : measures such as business closures and restrictions on household mixing that have been introduced in the UK to protect public health. We focus on the borders of local lockdowns in the UK in mid-2020. We focus on the 60,000 SMEs in the UK that have addresses within two kilometres of local lockdowns.

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Rishi Sunak cannot just hope other big firms will follow Primark's example | Nils Pratley

TheGuardian

Declining job retention bonus was honourable and underlined £9.4bn scheme’s shockingly poor design Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, readily conceded last week that there would be a “dead weight” cost to his policy of offering firms a £1,000 bonus for every employee recalled from furlough and kept in employment until the end of next January.

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The Fintech Fortean Times starts here

Tomorrow's Transactions

Now, I was thinking about this and I decided that it would make an interesting blog post to say that in all the years since chip and PIN was introduced in the UK, I have never left my card in a reader, I’ve never seen anyone leave a card in a reader, I’ve never even heard of anyone leaving a card in a reader.

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