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We fought the pandemic and the war won
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We fought the pandemic and the war won

There are similarities between the period after the second world war and after the pandemic. Massive supply chain disruption and rapidly rising prices. But the way we dealt with it this time round was
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The pandemic was the biggest economic disturbance since the second world war. In both cases supply chains were severely disrupted, either by German U-boats or, more recently, factories and borders closed to stop the spread of disease. On the face of it, though, we have got off relatively Scot-free. We haven’t seen the massive fall in GDP experienced aft…

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