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Watch For Spiralling Inflation
| Investment Research Group |
2 December 2008
The CFA Society, an association of investment professionals, invites a guest speaker of international reputation to NZ every year. We had the pleasure this time of hearing from Bud Conrad, chief economist of US based company Casey Research.
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