Given that neither the U.K. nor Switzerland is in the eurozone, these nations are protected by a robust firewall from the worst financial lunacies emanating from Brussels and Berlin.

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The behavioural economists reckon this may be because psychologists have focused on trying to link the moon to extreme behavioural problems in a few disturbed people, rather than to more humdrum lunacies affecting humanity as a whole, including a bias against shares around full moons.

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