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> Hopefully the people who chose Truss have made enough of a loss this week to reconsider their priorities.

Except Kwarteng's former boss Crispin Odey is making a killing shorting the pound. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-donor-pr...

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Good to see the conspiracy theories starting already.

Well, yes, there's always the option of bringing a case for insider trading (or possibly treason) for things like that.

It's hard to make more from shorting the pound than the loss across your entire estate from sterling crashing though, unless it's now common for wealthy conservatives to hold most of their assets in dollars instead of UK real estate.

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