Ross Clark Ross Clark

The author of the RBS ‘sell everything’ note has been predicting disaster for the last five years

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Should we sell everything because Andrew Roberts (not the historian but an analyst at RBS) tells us to in the expectation of crash? Before you press the ‘sell’ button, it might just be worth reflecting on the fact that there has always been a time when some analyst somewhere has been handing out the same advice.

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