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House of Cards
From marketsentiment.substack.com
It’s fascinating how a number going up by 0.75 in the United States can play havoc with the finances of people across the globe. Pensioners in the UK faced the unimaginable on Thursday. They saw their life savings nearly disappear when the bond market went into pandemonium, after an eccentric and sudden policy change by the government. 90% of UK pension funds would have been wiped out.1 How did the UK witness what some have called a “Lehman moment” - with one of the safest investments you can think of? While “The Big Short” was heavily dramatized, it got one thing right: Catastrophes aren’t caused by ... (full story)