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How do you spot a financial bubble?

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The newly formed Financial Policy Committee of the Bank of England holds its first meeting today.

Tim Harford, presenter of Radio 4's More or Less and author of Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure, looks at its aim of spotting bubbles and why financial experts have had such trouble in the past.


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