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Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Wednesday, 25 August 2010

If this is true then the US (and the UK for that matter) is doomed

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I was reading the BBC article “ US existing home sales drop to 10-year low ” which was discussing the 27.2% fall in US existing homes durin...
Thursday, 5 August 2010

It was all so predictable - Bank of England Rate held at 0.5% - August 2010 Update

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Today’s decision by the Bank of England to hold the Official Bank Rate at 0.5% for the 17th month in a row was so predictable that I nearly ...
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Sunday, 16 May 2010

GDP per capita – BRIC vs PIGS vs UK, USA, Germany

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We hear every day about the gross domestic product (or GDP) of countries. For example, it is always seen as negative if GDP is decreasing (b...
Monday, 10 May 2010

The Bank of England continues with their unpublished strategy – UK Bank Rate held at 0.5%

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The Bank of England today held interest rates at 0.5% for the fifteenth month in a row and decided to do no more quantitative easing (QE) f...
Saturday, 8 May 2010

The numbers just roll so easily off the tongue

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Ten billion here, a trillion there. It all rolls so easily off the tongue as governments continue to both spend more than they “earn” and ba...
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Monday, 12 April 2010

Are we back to blowing asset bubbles already?

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Last week saw Alan Greenspan interviewed as part of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. The Times reported that during this interview “...
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Sunday, 11 April 2010

Where is the economic recovery?

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I keep hearing in the news about how fragile the economic recovery is that we are currently seeing. I don’t know about you but I don’t see a...
Saturday, 10 April 2010

An appropriate quote for how the economy should be managed

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MoneyWeek every week publishes a series of quotes. In this week’s issue one of these particularly leapt out at me. In my opinion it really s...
Saturday, 3 April 2010

The government keeps spending our taxes to inflate house prices

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I am yet to buy a house as I believe that house prices are still overvalued. I try and demonstrate this monthly with the house affordability...
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Can the British pound fall any further?

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At the time of writing sterling today had risen by 0.6% to be 1.5344 against the US dollar. Part of the contributor to this was a fall in UK...
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010

A History of Severe Real S&P 500 Stock Bear Markets – February Update

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Looking at the first chart which shows the real (inflation adjusted) S&P 500 (or its predecessor) stock market I have identified three h...
Tuesday, 2 February 2010

A tale of two Central Banks – Reserve Bank of Australia vs Bank of England

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The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced today that they were keeping interest rates on hold at 3.75% after raising rates by 0.25% a mo...
Tuesday, 26 January 2010

Stagflation and the UK Q4 GDP Numbers

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Firstly, some quotes to think about: 1. "Now in Britain, we are saying, as you know, that inflation is low, interest rates are low and ...
Sunday, 17 January 2010

A History of Severe Real S&P 500 Stock Bear Markets

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Looking at the first chart which shows the real (inflation adjusted) S&P 500 (or its predecessor) stock market I have identified three h...
Wednesday, 13 January 2010

The Recession and Global Financial Crisis is Over. Back to the Boom in House Prices.

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You’d be forgiven for thinking that it’s all over if you caught page 19 of the London Evening Standard which has the headline ‘London house ...
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