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UK is urged to print money

By James Mackintosh

Published: April 5 2009 22:04 | Last updated: April 5 2009 22:04

The government will have to print money to finance public spending, moving quantitative easing to a new level, according to the manager of one of London’s biggest hedge funds.

Mike Platt, co-founder and chief executive of BlueCrest, Europe’s fifth-largest hedge fund, had been predicting quantitative easing in the UK for six months before it was adopted by the Bank of England last month.

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