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Small children that spent the last weeks of 2017 looking forward to Christmas are not alone in thinking that magical men have the power to shower the world with gifts from on high. In the Pacific island archipelago of Vanuatu, the people of Tanna look to the skies hoping that the messiah of their cargo cult, John Frum, will send down all manner of extravagances, just as fantastical flying machines – USAF airplanes – did for their ancestors during World War II.
Investors also have reasons to be thankful to a magic circle of (mostly) men: central bankers.
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