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Chicago, Tokyo, Basildon

A small town in Essex is an improbable capital-markets hub

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Nothing to say about the article - just really impressed that someone at the Economist knows about Depeche Mode, the most successful UK band to be almost completely unknown in the UK (any more). As a long time fan I sometimes think there's some superinjunction stopping UK journalists from writing about them.

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Strangely reminiscent of the sinister VIXAL-4 in Robert Harris's 'Fear Index', albeit in a slightly less exotic location than Geneva.



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