2 things I learned and like about UK recently
2 things I learned and like about UK recently
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- `May he defend our laws,` in the national anthem: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/God_Save_the_King
- BOE, UK's central bank has never defaulted on its debt, while US with only 200 years of history defaulted on gold and silver bond 4 times, which is awful. Also, BOE is the template for many countries' modern central bank, and it's the one major central bank that's chill about exchange rates. BOJ & SNB of Switzerland (before the stopped defending EURCHF from breaching 1.2 level in 2015) are the opposite of this.