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Bank of England needs to be ready to
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deal with aliens. That is according to
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one of its own former policy chiefs that
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is Ella Mccor. She used to consult and
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advise the central bank on financial
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security and she has told the times that
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this could be a massive risk and that if
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there is official confirmation of
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extraterrestrial life, particularly
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intelligent alien life, that could cause
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civil unrest and even banks to collapse.
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Mccor is one of a chorus of more senior
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voices from both sides of the Atlantic
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suggesting that this kind of alien life
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could be out there. Even Marco Rubio, a
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senior Republican who is Secretary of
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State in Trump's administration, says
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that there have been odd State
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Department sightings of all sorts of
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things in US airspace, including over
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nuclear facilities, which he has said to
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a UFO podcast, quote, but not ours.
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McCor says that so cool little green men
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are no laughing matter. She's told the
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Times she doesn't exactly expect to be
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taken seriously by everyone and that
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even her husband was a little bit
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skeptical at first, but she's also
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suggested that all sorts of governments
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and their central banks are not ready or
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adequately briefed on the risk if this
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does turn out to be true. And if she is,
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well, then maybe market watchers have
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been wrong to be worrying about
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Greenland geopolitical risk and AI. And
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perhaps the biggest risk comes from
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outer space all along.
