Bloomdido Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 George Osbourne needs to change to Plan B according to this piece in the hope that we can avoid a double-dip recession. Personally I'm stocking up on tinned food, am learning how to live off the land and have just bought myself a nice tent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANGELFIRE1 Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 George Osbourne needs to change to Plan B according to this piece in the hope that we can avoid a double-dip recession. Personally I'm stocking up on tinned food, am learning how to live off the land and have just bought myself a nice tent. The problem is, it's easy to find 100 economists who agree with Boy George. The situation is as daft as that. Regards Angel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wednesday1 Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 George Osbourne needs to change to Plan B according to this piece in the hope that we can avoid a double-dip recession. Personally I'm stocking up on tinned food, am learning how to live off the land and have just bought myself a nice tent. The problem is, it's easy to find 100 economists who agree with Boy George. The situation is as daft as that. Regards Angel Really????? I think they're getting fewer by the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 George just needs to hand over the mantle to Vince, as he speaks more sense in a day than George would in a lifetime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert_Baehr Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 When I was studying economics, I found the subject challenging. "You've given me loads of opinions, a sh=t load of theory, but nowhere in your lectures have you given me any indication of what might be the true answer. Why?" "There is no true answer. If there was, I wouldn't be teaching economics at a university." (I do not have a degree in economics) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vague_Boy Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 100 leading economists Do we have that many "leading" economists? 3 or 4 maybe. Gawd knows who the other lot are. Their message seems to be: What do we want? FREE MONEY! When do we want it? NOW! amid growing fears of a double-dip recession The UK has effectively been in recession since 2008. Oh we had a 2% boost to GDP at the cost of £200 million of quantitative easing Bank of England quantitative easing 'boosted GDP' But growth paid for by money created out of thin air (and not worth the paper it's not printed on) isn't real growth (but try telling these "100 leading economists" and trollish clowns like Wednesday1 that). Can you really solve the biggest debt crisis in history with still more debt? If money printing is such a panacea for economic ills, why doesn't the government just install a money printer in every house so that we can just print off whatever we need to buy stuff? After all, what's the worst that could happen? If money printing was indeed the answer there wouldn't be a poor country on earth and Zimbabwe would be an economic powerhouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSmith Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 George Osbourne needs to change to Plan B according to this piece in the hope that we can avoid a double-dip recession. Personally I'm stocking up on tinned food, am learning how to live off the land and have just bought myself a nice tent. Should he also do what these economists want? Top economists have urged the Chancellor to scrap the 50p top rate of income tax - for the sake of the recovery. 06 Sep 2011 The economists, including two former members of the Bank of England's policy committee, DeAnne Julius and Sushil Wadhwani, have signed a joint letter calling for George Osborne to drop the tax at the "earliest opportunity" . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandad.Malky Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 It will never happen because it sounds to close to what those nasty leftwing supporters would come up with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balpin Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 The policy being followed is nothing to do with economics at all. It is show who is top dog. The Tories, after being shown up for a useless bunch of fellow travellers are determined to teach us a lesson. They are going to teach us what poverty is, while showing that they can live the high life. If we let them that is. Unfortunatly, knowing the English people, you will let them walk all over you, while doffing your cap to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert_Baehr Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 The policy being followed is nothing to do with economics at all. It is show who is top dog. The Tories, after being shown up for a useless bunch of fellow travellers are determined to teach us a lesson. They are going to teach us what poverty is, while showing that they can live the high life. If we let them that is. Unfortunatly, knowing the English people, you will let them walk all over you, while doffing your cap to them. You know so much. Please enlighten the remainder of us thicko's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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