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Economic growth, recession is over W W W blip blip
avantra
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German economic recovery grinds to surprise halt
Small poll. In light of the above news what will we see in Q1 for the UK in 2010?
German economic recovery grinds to surprise halt
Small poll. In light of the above news what will we see in Q1 for the UK in 2010?
Five exclamation marks the sure sign of an insane mind!!!!!
Terry Pratchett.
Terry Pratchett.
UK % growth Q1 2010 41 votes
-1
24%
10 votes
-0.1
34%
14 votes
0.1
17%
7 votes
0.5
12%
5 votes
1
2%
1 vote
1.9
0%
0 votes
9%
4 votes
0
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Worst weather for 30 years in January.
Shops shut, people couldn't get to work, transport ground to a halt.....
Be more of a surprise if that didn't kick the numbers negative for this quarter, to be honest.
And inclement weather may yet return before March....“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 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Worst weather for 30 years in January.
Shops shut, people couldn't get to work, transport ground to a halt.....
Be more of a surprise if that didn't kick the numbers negative for this quarter, to be honest.
And inclement weather may yet return before March....
Five exclamation marks the sure sign of an insane mind!!!!!
Terry Pratchett.0 -
I would go for somewhere in-between minus 0.1 % and minus 1.00 %, so I had to vote for -1%.'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'0
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To be fair Cleaver one wonders what the point of all this is anyway? It made me chuckle. Not because I wanted to score one over Hamish, or that I find pictures better than words - but it was slightly unexpected and so in response to that surprise I had a slightly tickling sensation in the throat which I think may have been the beginnings of an early laughter phase.You ask a question, Hamish gives you his considered opinion (which you may disagree with, but it remains a sensible point) and you respond with a childish picture. What's the point?
Obviously it wasn't a proper laugh (oh God if only), but it was good enough to click the old thankyou button.
I do think a thread entitled "What is the Point" might be useful, in order to understand why people use the forum - but I don't see it gaining many thanks and will probably lead to a row.
edit: btw I have checked the poll options and do not understand them. Just a collection of very small numbers as far as I can see. Maybe a contender for least exciting poll of the year.0 -
The analysis from Hugh Pimm, which I couldn't possibly do better than had this in it:Germany has hit the buffers after relatively strong growth in the second and third quarters - its performance then may have been over-dependent on stimulus measures such as the car scrappage scheme, since withdrawn. Italy, meanwhile, has lurched back to declining output.
Double-dip recession is the fear. That cannot help UK exporters who sell more than half their goods and services in other EU economies.
Echo's what a lot of people have said about an artificial recovery. Once the stimulus is removed, there is nothing keeping the economy afloat.0 -
Useless poll, you should have put ranges on, not precise numbers.0
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Worst weather for 30 years in January.
Shops shut, people couldn't get to work, transport ground to a halt.....
Be more of a surprise if that didn't kick the numbers negative for this quarter, to be honest.
And inclement weather may yet return before March....
But it had nothing to do with January0 -
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Degenerate wrote: »Useless poll, you should have put ranges on, not precise numbers.
You tell him...
A - C
D-H
I-P
Q-Z
Would of been much more appropriate.......Not Again0
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