As Burberry makes PPE for nurses and doctors, Brexiteer hedge funder shorts its stock
Ignoring Bank of England pleas, hedge funds managers including Paul Marshall and Crispin Odey are profiting from COVID-19 chaos, openDemocracy investigation finds.
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