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Economy Based Questions (cos I'm a bit bored)
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Average UK house price on the ol' Nationwide index (currently £162k): £180k
% UK base rate of interest: 0.75%
FTSE 100 level (currently 5,142): 5500
Dow Jones level (currently 10,023): 11,500
Top of the Premiership: Couldn't care less
Political party in power: Tory
RBS Share Price (currently 37p): £1.05
Total amount pumped it to the UK via QE: £250 billion
The winner of 2009 X-Factor: Couldn't care less
Bin Laden - caught or at large? At large
This board - dead or alive? Alive
Will it still have 'recession' in the title? No
rewired - still here or absent? Still here“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
Average UK house price on the ol' Nationwide index (currently £162k): £170k
% UK base rate of interest: 0.75%
FTSE 100 level (currently 5,142): 5,350
Dow Jones level (currently 10,023): 10,700
Top of the Premiership: Arsenal
Political party in power: Tory
RBS Share Price (currently 37p): 45p
Total amount pumped it to the UK via QE: £225 billion
The winner of 2009 X-Factor: Danyl
Bin Laden - caught or at large? At large
This board - dead or alive? Alive
Will it still have 'recession' in the title? No
rewired - still here or absent? Still here0 -
Just bought new furniture and rearranged our bedroom hence in middle of v tedious reorg - can't go to bed until it's done, as stuff is all over the bed!
So anything for a bit of distraction!
Average UK house price on the ol' Nationwide index (currently £162k): £148k
% UK base rate of interest: 1.5%
FTSE 100 level (currently 5,142): 4,600
Dow Jones level (currently 10,023): 8,500
Top of the Premiership: Who cares
Political party in power: Tory
RBS Share Price (currently 37p): ?
Total amount pumped it to the UK via QE: £250 billion
The winner of 2009 X-Factor: ?
Bin Laden - caught or at large? Alive
This board - dead or alive? Dead or possibly undead - eaten alive by certain vampires so that only the walking dead still visit it
Will it still have 'recession' in the title? Yes
rewired - still here or absent? Still here, mysterious as ever0
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