Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Good advice, but don't forget to leave a few servants behind to dry the place out.

The latest data will further fuel concerns that the second phase of the Government's Help-To-Buy scheme is only likely to raise prices, rather than give a much-needed boost to construction.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/uk-house-prices-biggest-jump-over-4-years-070622432.html#KkogfeB

you can't build a house overnight, but surely if there is demand to buy, then there is a similar demand to build ...... builders don't sit on their land banks for a laugh, but quite rightly, will not build until there is decent demand

Code for...........Wheels coming off Tory so called recovery.......... cynic.

haven't read the article to determine whence you come
for myself, i don't have to read newspaper articles to determine whether or not the economy is recovering, even if living standards inevitably lag
sorry to say, but you're sounding a bit like canute on this issue

Cyners ..........even if living standards inevitably lag........ends

total baloney.

I gave you the senario on new years eve, admittedly im not the best communicator and would never make a teacher but the how can I put it the 'O' level standard discussion which developed after my depature should have convinced you of keynes theory although at times it was mis represented.

Maggie in the wars again, FRED will like this one...............

Margaret Thatcher 'made no case' for Mandela's release
Scant evidence in official documents that prime minister pressured PW Botha to release ANC leader, as supporters claim

Here we are........

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/03/thatcher-mandela-release?CMP=twt_gu

From Maguire lefty on twitter......

Kevin Maguire ‏@Kevin_Maguire 38m
So Cons rewrote history when Mandela died. Thatcher didn't press for his release http://gu.com/p/3yhh3/tw

why would keynes theory be correct in today's world?
it seems to me that if these economists were so damn good, they'ld actually be pretty much unanimous in their appraisals and we'ld all live in clover
patently, they are not!
however, even the "rest of the world" is now in accord that the uk economy is growing far more strongly than any other in the eurozone, and indeed across most of the rest of the world
that living standards are indeed lagging is also self-apparent

Ohhhhh you just dont get it, never mind I couldnt tell you your job either.

Margaret Thatcher barely mentioned the plight of Nelson Mandela when she controversially invited the hardline South African president PW Botha to talks at Chequers on 2 June 1984, newly released Downing Street files show, throwing into doubt claims made after Mandela's death last month.

Two of Thatcher's closest supporters, Norman Tebbit and Charles Moore, claimed on Mandela's death that as prime minister, she had put persistent pressure on Botha to release Mandela. Moore claimed that "the release of Mandela was the strongest and most specific of all her demands".

But there is little evidence in official papers to back this up. The Downing Street file on the visit shows Thatcher did not raise Mandela's case at all during the four-hour official meeting at Chequers.

The "Con" Party/Government caught lying yet again.

I wonder what Carney at the BOE is going to make of this housing inflation????????????????????????.

brings an increase in interest rates ever nearer imo.

Indeed Stan lie after lie, but Camoron is the champion of them all at that and misrepresentation of statistics.

sticky - leave the political crap to one side, and have a look at HG+HC (NMX3720) and C+M (NMX2350) ..... they tell you quite a lot, not least because you like charts and the like

Cyners well well well here we are we have it in the T Graph, I couldnt have written it better myself..............

Morning papers: IMF warning as debts hit 200-year high
The morning headlines brought to you by FTAdviser: 3 January 2014.

By Donia O'Loughlin | Published 08:52 |


Western leaders are clinging to an illusion that the cure for the parlous state of their national finances is to be found in modest cuts and monetary ‘tinkering’, according to the International Monetary Fund, which has demanded a more robust response to tackle 200-year high debts.


A new IMF policy working paper has revealed that much of the Western world will be forced to seek orderly debt defaults and should seek to impose more extreme measures such as savings taxes or initiatives to significantly boost inflation to clear the way for recovery, The Telegraph reports.

The paper states that debt burdens in developed nations have become extreme by any historical measure and argues Western policymakers are mistaken in their belief that rich countries are different from poorer peers and can chip away at their debts with a blend of austerity and growth.........................ends.

Keynes theory proved correct. I rest my case.

i would certainly have liked to see C+M looking stronger, but that too is a reflection of economic activity - i.e. uncertainty over HS2 and the like and also a lack of (other) confirmed major structural contracts .... nevertheless, its trend is still northwards