People and businesses were already over-indebted before the pandemic. The government’s schemes have made things worse, says the writer and researcher Christine Berry
of a wave of “zombie companies”, kept afloat by Covid-19 loans, going bust this autumn. There will be no “V-shaped recovery” – and recognising the scale of over-indebtedness is key to understanding why.
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