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Just to explain why it’s gnome…In the mid-1960s, the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, referred to Swiss bankers as “the gnomes of Zrich”. This was because they were speculating in British currency and hiding all the gold in their subterranean vaults, just as gnomes supposedly did in caves according to fairy tales.
