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FinanceThis is what I wrote to new contacts I produced at the London Investor Show which I attended and presented at final Friday.

Narrative beats numbers: A single of the themes for this weblog for the last few years has been the importance of stories in a planet exactly where numbers have turn out to be a lot more plentiful. In the Brexit debate US presidential election, it seemed to me that the Leave side Trump had the more compelling narrative (of a return to an an old Britain America that adequate voters found attractive to assist him win) and while the Remain side Clinton argued that this narrative was not plausible in today’s globe, its counter consisted largely of numbers (the costs that Britain would face from Brexit) inveighing against Trump’s character and temperament. Looking ahead to similar referendums elections in other EU nations, I have a feeling that …

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