Paul the Wolf
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If Truss resigned the Deputy PM could take over
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There was a genuine risk of a market meltdown so they had to do something. Asset managers apparently having to sell bonds into a falling market in order to meet collateral calls.. recipe for disaster.Does printing more money really help though? Combined with borrowing for tax cuts, surely it only adds to the inflationary pressure?
Might ease short term gilt rates but it's just causing more long term pain.
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Imagine we get Boris back for Christmas.Tweet
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If this keeps up, Truss may not make it to Christmas
The no10 new years party is gonna be epic...Imagine we get Boris back for Christmas.
There'll be some great parties.Imagine we get Boris back for Christmas.
That said I'm sure she will find ways to fek things up even more than I predictOk let’s here some predictions over how this plays out by:
1 week: Liz truss has to make some public statement of confidence in the chancellor (pound tanks)
1 month: they essentially leak the next budget early to calm the market (market panics and pound tanks)
End of year: shes put us back in lockdown so she can blame it on COVID
End of tax year: there is a full budget... It's awful and the pound tanks
Year to date: she's gone full Thatcher and we are at war over the Falklands in the hope it gives her an election victory in 2024
1 week: Kwarteng sackedOk let’s here some predictions over how this plays out by:
is what i reckon.Ok let’s here some predictions over how this plays out by:
1 week: pound collapses to a singularity.
1 month: truss blames russia and the war on uk cranes for the housing crisis.
End of year: the british celebrate christmas by feasting on the meat of their pet and christmas tree trimmings.
End of tax year: anyone on less than £150k per year is forced to pay their taxes directly to a posho to reduce “red tape overheads.”
Year to date: truss marries prince harry in an attempt to strengthen ties between government and the monarchy.
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Your country is a basket case. There has to be a general election.
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she is like a female David Brent. A Bad Actress.Tweet
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she is like a female David Brent. A Bad Actress.
Shes cute though. I fancy her
That. Is. A. Dis. GraceShes cute though. I fancy her
You sicken me.she is like a female David Brent. A Bad Actress.
Shes cute though. I fancy her
She's actually incredibly filthy per sourcesshe is like a female David Brent. A Bad Actress.
Shes cute though. I fancy her
Politics has the same problem the police and refereeing has. The people who actually want to go into it are the ones you should be desperate to keep out.Is everyone in politics an idiot? Is it just something smart period refuse to do these days? Seems to have the energy of a small town news reporter doing a story on a lemonade stand. But they're 12 years old as well.
My dad is fond of saying anyone who wants to run for President should be automatically disqualified.Politics has the same problem the police and refereeing has. The people who actually want to go into it are the ones you should be desperate to keep out.
Andrew Bailey has got just about everything wrong so far but they had to step in here and provide liquidity. Genuine risk of the market collapsing if they don't.Fair but they've been so slow on inflation, interest rates are still only at 2.75% despite inflation having been 10% for what seems like a while now. Longer term inflationary pressure feels like an own-goal as it'll keep bond rates high regardless.
I know full well how fecking useless Bailey was at the FCA, but if the BoE had lifted rates more aggressively we'd have had a bad recession surely? Obviously his approach didn't work, but how effective would rate rises really have been against inflation caused by imported energy costs and before that the Covid supply chain crunch? Think he was pretty fecked whatever.Andrew Bailey has got just about everything wrong so far but they had to step in here and provide liquidity. Genuine risk of the market collapsing if they don't.
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I don't think they should have raised more aggressively, but they should have started sooner. They could have gotten ahead of the situation and lessened the multiplier effect.I know full well how fecking useless Bailey was at the FCA, but if the BoE had lifted rates more aggressively we'd have had a bad recession surely? Obviously his approach didn't work, but how effective would rate rises really have been against inflation caused by imported energy costs and before that the Covid supply chain crunch? Think he was pretty fecked whatever.
Are they replacing the one pound coin?coming soon
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Yep, makes sense. Guess they were too cautious on the strength of the economy and Bailey was a massive ditherer at the FCA too.I don't think they should have raised more aggressively, but they should have started sooner. They could have gotten ahead of the situation and lessened the multiplier effect.
1.00 British Pound =1.0689987 US Dollars
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Pension fund crisis as gilt yields climbTweet
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It's borne of a bit of a misunderstanding of what was going on. Some pension funds were having to sell some liquid assets, including gilts, to raise cash for margin calls on interest rate swaps that had turned against them cos of rate projections leaping up. It was more a fear that people selling gilts would force the yield up higher, becoming self-fulfilling, so the BoE intervened to buy a load and try to put a lid on yields.Tweet
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