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SERIOUS MONEY:Proposals to regulate financial markets do not go far enough to prevent a future shock that undermines the entire system, writes CHARLIE FELL

EDWARD LORENZ, a professor of meteorology at MIT, delivered a paper to the US National Academy of Sciences in 1972 entitled Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?.