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Of wine, wine gums and debt

Brian Davidson, CFA 18 April 2019|

Three bags of wine gums in two days, four coffees in one day, a chilli cheeseburger for lunch, slouching in my chair, an energy drink, no exercise for two weeks, a glass of wine when I got home, some stress and a few more grey hairs thrown into the mix. I wasn’t at my healthiest as I worked late to deliver the quarterly update of our Financial Vulnerability Indicator (FVI), a powerful and comprehensive tool which we have developed and use to forecast financial crises across 177 countries. My brain was full of financial-risk-related thoughts, and they were now joined by worries about my health. And before I knew it, I