A Message From The Publishers

 
We launched this magazine in the middle of a pandemic and witnessed the global misery of first a health crisis which then rapidly turned into an economic crisis as governments scrambled to cope with a crisis not seen for over a hundred years. Due to fantastic innovation and speed, we witnessed the launch of several vaccines which appeared to reduce the speed of COVID 19 and its many variants.
The successful roll out of the vaccines resulted in a number of outcomes not anticipated by commentators. Instead of high unemployment, businesses have complained about staff shortages. Instead of deflation and low demand, we have the spectre of stagflation with raging inflation which is largely due to supply problems rather than demand. And then the next unanticipated crisis to hit the globe is the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. At the time of writing, there seems little optimism for a resolution despite the ongoing peace talks.
 
The last 24 months reminds us of the uncertainty that pr...