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An alarm sounds, and dozens of feet pound into the council room.

And they’ve hosted community events, where people bring seed pods to pound into flour — a process that requires a big hammermill that isn’t easy to use on your own, Merchant said.

In addition, the Bank of England pumped hundreds of billions of pound into the economy during the financial crisis and the pandemic in a process called "quantitative easing".

That spooked financial markets, sent the British pound into a tailspin and drove up interest rates.

Her plans for budget-busting tax cuts, many disproportionately favoring the rich, sent the pound into a free fall and drove up the yield on British bonds, which came within days of igniting a full-blown liquidity crisis for pension funds.