Archive for April, 2009

The quarter one GDP figures released today showed the UK economy shrank by 1.9% just two day after Darling had predicted a 3.6% decline for the whole year. This shows how far off the market he was and was generally trying to deceive the mass of the population. This means that the public cuts will [...]

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Budget is to pay for bail out of banks Unable to raise money on financial markets because our IOUs (Gilts) are worth nothing – in line with Portugal and Greece Deficit for 2009 at over 12% biggest of the G20 countries Big cut in public spending and over the near term and medium and long [...]

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In an incredible admission that a wave of countries from the periphery of the European Union to emerging markets to Eastern Europe to major countries such as the UK, the G20 has quadrupled the size of the International Monetary Fund to an incredible $1 trillion. This fund will be used to bail out bankrupt countries [...]

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  • @TheLeftBanker

    • RBS £2 billion loss not as BBC reports £776 million. Twice as big as forecast. 3 hours ago

    • @BharatKAzad I think so with Portugal 6 months behind and Spain another year 21 hours ago

    • Greece mark II: Portuguese opposition demands €30 billion more of a bailout to keep country afloat 21 hours ago

    • @aidanskinner hedge funds been putting this trade in droves spreading risk over several banks. They now hold about 30% of Greek debt 22 hours ago

    • Greek debt swap deal may fail as hedge funds & other investors would be better off with default and collecting insurance it would trigger 22 hours ago

    • Euro crisis goes global: Preliminary Chinese manufacturing figures for February shoes a contraction. 23 hours ago

    • Euro area manufacturing & services output drops in February. Recession on the way. 1 day ago