On Sun, 01 Oct 2017 21:13:20 +0100, Tim Streater wrote:

Not only. We used to have significant foreign investments in South
America. Sold to the Yanks for a song for agreement for the Yanks
selling us arms during WW2.

Well, let's just hope those "significant foreign investments" were in the
form of various sovereign bonds. ;-



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