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[downsizer]

Discussion forum - try to change my mind with your objective reports

Come back to me when you have worked in Germany and actually been to outback Russia (and not just Moscow)

There is an ignore button if you are that unhappy

If you actually posted facts rather than spout Daily Mail rhetoric I could debate with you. Wallow in your echo chamber.

 

[primer]

Earlier this year...

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The number £1.5tn is big — at least in a UK context. It is 40 per cent of the UK institutional asset management market, two-thirds of gross domestic product and about the size of the government’s total debt, after stripping out bonds held by the Bank of England. This is the quantum of liabilities held by UK pension funds that have been hedged with so-called Liability Driven Investment trades, according to the asset management trade body The Investment Association. LDI is big business, having more than tripled in size over the past decade, and the reason is simple — it helps funds manage the risks in meeting their pension promises for members, partly through derivatives. But now funds are facing calls from counterparties to put up collateral to fund those trades. The sums are potentially huge and asset sales to meet the calls could have a knock-on effect to markets such as equities.

Right now
Bank of England launches 'urgent' measures with UK 'pension funds losing large amounts'

Result of interest rate hikes deflating the share values. Its hard job being a reserve bank governor these days.... Can no longer bring back the good old times of faking growth with interest rates cuts.

 

[Jake84]

Well knowing me, knowing you it's all Gimme Gimme Gimme or Money Money Money......., but if you change your mind

I'll get me coat.....

Mamma Mia…

 

[BCNTM]

If you actually posted facts rather than spout Daily Mail rhetoric I could debate with you. Wallow in your echo chamber.

I quite often call it the daily fail as it is so funny - it is a pity that is all you can focus on rather than all the other stuff that I post from various credible sources

I might just be pulling your chain ?

 

[BCNTM]

Earlier this year...

Right now
Bank of England launches 'urgent' measures with UK 'pension funds losing large amounts'

Result of interest rate hikes deflating the share values. Its hard job being a reserve bank governor these days.... Can no longer bring back the good old times of faking growth with interest rates cuts.

Needs to stop playing at it and raise interest rates to about 8%+

If people cannot afford the houses they live in, then that is their problem - most of the houses are owned by the bank in any case

I get really fed up with people who have everything, but actually own nothing - it's all smoke and Instagram

 

[primer]

We'll be taking lessons from Argentine debt restructuring next.

 

[surfpunk]

I went by train to Glasgow recently, you literally go through a couple of miles of abandoned buildings/war zone, on the approach to the station.

Why they dont find say £1M and buy them all up, and flatten them properly, I do not know.

turn them into millennial and zoomer hipster housing! or squatters! they love shitting in buckets in abandoned buildings

 

[BCNTM]

turn them into millennial and zoomer hipster housing! or squatters! they love shitting in buckets in abandoned buildings

It's Jockland we are talking about - bucket technology has not reached that far north yet ?

 

[uktabber]

Mamma Mia…

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I'm sorry mate but that lovely lass on the rocks IS NOT Lily James.....where's Lily, I want Lily!!!! ??? She is sooo stinking HOT and I love her acting!! ?

 

[Telmar]

I only know Glasgow through documentaries such as "doomsday"

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[Ivan le Fou]

Don't unpack just yet Lizzy, you might not stay there long.

 

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[BCNTM]

UK economy grows leaving the Bank of England's prediction in tatters

The new statistics provide relief to the Government following the economic fallout of last week's mini-budget.

www.express.co.uk

GDP up 0.2% as opposed to the predicted -0.1%

Need to be a few sackings at the BOA, and they need to get interest rates up PDQ

 

[BCNTM]

Not a good look to be honest - hobKnobbing with people you have just made even more wealthy with taxpayers money

Kwasi Kwarteng faces calls for inquiry after attending champagne party with hedge fund managers hours after delivering mini-budget

A source close to the chancellor said: "Any suggestion attendees had access to privileged information is total nonsense."

news.sky.com

 

[TheKiwi]

Kwasi Kwarteng U-turns on plans to scrap 45p tax rate

Kwasi Kwarteng says the proposal was "drowning out a strong package" to boost economic growth.

www.bbc.com

If I could pull a scopeless 180' turn like that, I'd be unstoppable in CoD....

 

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She has been sacked by her private sector employer - but as she is still registered and can go back to the NHS

RCN also need to nullify her registration as well - but I am pretty sure they won't

I would bet that the Tory voters have paid a lot more into the *ecking NHS than Liebour voters have ever paid in and received a lot less services

The 'woman' - if she is one, is a disgrace

Nurse who said 'Tories don't deserve resuscitation' is sacked by firm

EXCLUSIVE: Miranda Hughes, 46, confirmed she had been sacked from her current job with a private health care provider following her comments on Channel 5.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[BCNTM]

So Liverpool got the gig

Putin needs to get the Liverpool coke supply laced with N'chock

Worth a look through the comments - at least Liz has not blocked everyone - yet

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Even sadder - Liverpool actually 'won' something - they will be erecting a statue and going on about it for the next 50 years

Liverpool to host Eurovision 2023 on behalf of Ukraine after beating Glasgow

LIVERPOOL will host Eurovision 2023 on behalf of Ukraine after beating Glasgow to the bid. TV host Graham Norton announced the results on The One Show – and confirmed Eurovision’s date …

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[Gaz]

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She has been sacked by her private sector employer - but as she is still registered and can go back to the NHS

RCN also need to nullify her registration as well - but I am pretty sure they won't

I would bet that the Tory voters have paid a lot more into the *ecking NHS than Liebour voters have ever paid in and received a lot less services

The 'woman' - if she is one, is a disgrace

Nurse who said 'Tories don't deserve resuscitation' is sacked by firm

EXCLUSIVE: Miranda Hughes, 46, confirmed she had been sacked from her current job with a private health care provider following her comments on Channel 5.

www.dailymail.co.uk

You both strike me as people that hate "cancel culture" but then still demand someone be fired when they say something you disagree with.