Interesting post + paper by Darrell Duffie asking questions about the safe haven status of the US Treasuries: brookings.edu/research/still…. Could this explain the rise of Bitcoin since March? The only fly in the ointment in this story is that in mid-March Bitcoin was down too...
I think it's madness that such an iconic and historic pub is demolished. Pubs like this should be preserved, just like listed monuments. Monuments don't have to be grand. Anything that tells a significant story is a monument.