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4 January 2013updated 26 Sep 2015 4:01pm

Switzerland’s getting into a currency war with us? Brilliant!

Spend, spend, spend.

By Alex Hern

It’s sort of like the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon – you hear a relatively rare phrase once, and then it starts springing up all over the place. Today’s is “currency war”.

At the Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has uncovered evidence that Switzerland and the UK are “effectively fighting a ‘low intensity’ currency war against each other”. He writes:

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