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Wealth creation and money creation is not the same thing but our leaders seem to think it is, says Emile Woolf

As any astrologer will tell you, 2012 will be a tumultuous year. But, as the worldly-wise Cassius instructs the noble but naïve Brutus, ‘Men at some time are masters of their fates: the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.’

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