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  • thriftybabe
    thriftybabe Posts: 689 Forumite
    http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article5881723.ece

    Sorry first time trying to paste a link. Not sure if it will work.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    thriftybabe wrote: »
    I am almost sure Bernanke was quoted as saying that America should see recovery in 2009/10. :confused: I will go and check and come back.

    "I think there is a good chance the recession will end later this year and 2010 will be a period of growth," end quote :D
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • mewbie_2
    mewbie_2 Posts: 6,058 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    "I think there is a good chance the recession will end later this year and 2010 will be a period of growth," end quote :D
    I really want to believe, really I do. But. I'd rather take a prediction from someone who saw the current problems coming, than someone who was partly responsible for them and presumably didn't see them coming.
  • pickles110564
    pickles110564 Posts: 2,374 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    "I think there is a good chance the recession will end later this year and 2010 will be a period of growth," end quote :D
    End of 2011 when things pick up due to the Olympics.
  • pickles110564
    pickles110564 Posts: 2,374 Forumite
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Radio 5 this morning

    You must be well old, I have only just got into Radio 2.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    pickles110564 wrote: »
    You must be well old, I have only just got into Radio 2.

    To be fair to Dev, Radio5 also covers sport :D
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    pickles110564 wrote: »
    End of 2011 when things pick up due to the Olympics.

    Quote relates to Bernanke, Olympics :confused:
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • mewbie_2
    mewbie_2 Posts: 6,058 Forumite
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    pickles110564 wrote: »
    End of 2011 when things pick up due to the Olympics.
    Oh yeah. I suppose pharmaceutical's should do well out of them.
  • pickles110564
    pickles110564 Posts: 2,374 Forumite
    mewbie wrote: »
    Oh yeah. I suppose pharmaceutical's should do well out of them.
    only the backstreet ones and that wont show a profit in Broons coffers.
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
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    pickles110564 wrote: »
    End of 2011 when things pick up due to the Olympics.

    I heard Vince Cable on Radio 4 this morning who echoed the opinion that a good bit of trampolining, equestrian and modern pentathlon will sort out the complex global economic issues we're seeing at the moment.
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