Gosling's Grouse: Why we shouldn't be afraid to embrace uncertainty

The most overused phrase this year: 'the market hates uncertainty'

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I have an elderly relative who used to be an on-course bookmaker in the 1950s. He tells a story of the last race of the day, which was literally a two horse race.

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