By Eliot Wilson Neil Woodford, who was investigated by the FCA after losing billions, is telling us to be optimistic about the economy. He has a point, says Eliot Wilson Neil Woodford, whose eponymous investment fund collapsed amid investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority in 2019, has obviously been taking a course in self-assurance from Liz Truss. The one-time “City kingmaker” lost billions of pounds for clients when Woodford Investment Management closed its doors, and earlier this month the FCA concluded that he “had a defective and unreasonably narrow understanding of his responsibi…