Alexander Chartres: the end of a benign era
We've been living in an extraordinarily stable and benign era. But stability breeds instability, says Ruffer's Alexander Chartres. Here, he talks to Merryn Somerset Webb about how the post-virus world might look.
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America is in deep denial over debt
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Bank of England raises interest rates to 5.25%
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