Back-to-school marketing is more somber under COVID-19, but carries silver linings
From packed yellow buses to doorbuster deals, staples of back-to-school marketing this year are sparse as the coronavirus pandemic casts...
Linda J. Dodson
Spotify’s grand plan to turn podcasts into riches
"Right now, most podcasts don't make any money from advertising, because they aren't big enough to sell ads directly to...
City firms still exploiting vulnerable customers, watchdog finds
Banks, insurers and other financial firms are not doing enough to support vulnerable customers, a report by the City watchdog...
How Amazon’s ‘smiling assassin’ Jeff Bezos went from super-geek to king of the world
"The narrative with Bezos and Amazon then was: 'what's wrong with the investment community that they continue to fund a...
Why a second lockdown might push me into a breakdown
Money & Daddy is a weekly column about parental finances, published on Wednesday mornings. Got a topic or problem you...
Counting the cost of the missing commuter billions
Travel within London has also fallen away drastically on the Tube network, which at its nadir saw just 64,000 passengers...
if you want to know if a company is going to survive coronavirus, start here
A liability is any financial obligation: overdraft, other debts, money owed to suppliers (“trade payables”), the requirement to meet lease...
MPs open inquiry into scams in wake of ‘pension freedoms’ reforms
Stephen Timms MP said this shake up of the pensions system gave millions of savers more freedom to plan for their...
Over-55s, not millennials, have been the main victims of the coronavirus jobs crisis
The report said older workers who had not yet retired had been impacted disproportionately and some were "now confronting real...
Whisper it, but here comes a 1920s-style, post-pandemic boom
Two tentative economic conclusions can be drawn from this experience. One is that once we emerge from the current hysteria,...
