
The Deficit Myth
Slate Money
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The Origin of the Salmon Family Wealth
The original source of the salmon family wealth is when we sold salmon and guxican cigarettes to basically an American tobacco company in the 19th century. That money was obviously made off the backs of slaves in Virginia. And that wealth we invested on a sort of multi-generational basis and some of it has made its way to me. The finance Twitter's favorite hate read this week wasThis wonderful column by a freelance journalist called Shruti Advani about how she managed to cope with the lockdown in Kensington. Trebling our usual order from the threddy's flowers delivery service was the obvious place to start.
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