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Are you prepared to have your savings put into compulsory “recovery bonds”?

The pandemic has put a huge hole in public finances – while bolstering many of the country's savings. Could one be used to bail out the other? Merryn Somerset Webb ponders the possibilities.

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by: Merryn Somerset Webb
11 Feb 2021
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