The Guardian: John Maynard Keynes ‘a great economist but poor currency trader’

John Maynard Keynes struggled as a foreign-exchange trader, finds the first detailed study of the famous economist as currency speculator. “Unlike his stock investing, Keynes found the currency market a lot tougher, despite the fact that he was at the centre of the world of international finance throughout the time he traded currencies,” said one of the co-authors David Chambers, Reader in Finance and Academic Director of the Newton Centre for Endowment Asset Management at University of Cambridge Judge Business School.

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