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Reduced dividends, softer growth and an economy haunted by zombie companies — that’s the postpandemic future seen by this Odey fund manager

A portfolio manager at one of London’s leading hedge funds has warned of a future haunted by “a more Soviet outcome” from countries defending their economies against the coronavirus. Tim Bond, partner and portfolio manager at Odey Asset Management, told MarketWatch: “Dog will no longer eat dog. Instead, all will …

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Living With Kids: Ana Bianchi

Once upon a time Ana Bianchi shared her home tour when she lived in New York. Since then, she and her family (her husband, her daughter, and her pug) have moved to Walnut Creek, California and live in a beautiful house with an even more beautiful garden. It seems like …

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Bernanke rejects Great Depression comparisons as he says GDP could slump by 30%

Ben Bernanke, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, is a scholar of the Great Depression, a background he put to use during the global financial crisis when he invented many of the emergency lending programs the central bank is now re-using. But he thinks the Great Depression is a …

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