Jim Power: Covid-19 is also bad news for the health of economic forecasters
When sat down in early January to consider the year ahead, I had a somewhat more upbeat assessment of global economic prospects for 2020.
This was based on a view that ahead of his re-election bid in November, President Donald Trump would wind down his trade dispute with China and concentrate on ensuring as strong and stable an economy as possible in the run-up to the election.
