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Martin Vander Weyer: How many times must we save the City?

Plus: How much money you need to be happy, and when risk-taking is the safest thing

issue 14 December 2013
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Top of my Christmas reading pile is Saving the City by Richard Roberts, a new account of the largely forgotten crisis which afflicted global markets at the outbreak of the first world war, forcing the London Stock Exchange to close on Friday 31 July 1914 and stay dark for six months.

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