December 1, 2008
If you're up for a cup of coffee and a perhaps challenging education in the ways of government debt and deflation, this link from Bloomberg, by way of listener Aimee Ennis, is so worth it. It's called "Hedge Fund Manager Hendry Bets on Deflation With U.K. War Loans."
That's "war loans" as in World War I.
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