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What’s behind the recent steep fall of £ Sterling?

Tom White

31st January 2016

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According to The Economist, Sterling has had a very choppy history, marked by crises such as 1967, 1976 and 1992. And it is having another rocky period. Thanks to Guy Tennant at Norwich School for highlighting this article:

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