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British economy will surge next year

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  • Wookster
    Wookster Posts: 3,795 Forumite
    And house prices will outperform the economy now and forever more.

    Quick folks, buy while you still can lest you miss the boat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • nembot
    nembot Posts: 1,234 Forumite
    More carp from the OP, to go with his other 99.9% of carrpy posts.
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    Funny Graham didn't mention the strong growth next year and the year after on his thread icon7.gif
    must be the type of cold water that he trys to throw over any 'positive' economic news...
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    You will have to find less biased reading material then icon7.gif

    So the BBC has bias?
  • Conrad
    Conrad Posts: 33,137 Forumite
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    Just as the 80's bears were proved wrong in thier claims we would be relegated to third world status thanks to Japan, Taiwan, HK and S Korea taking our economy away, so the bears will be shown to have called it wrong again weith thier 'we don't make anything anymore', 'we can't go on selling one another houses'.

    We WILL get richer....again.

    Put down the graphs and open eyes bears.
  • DaddyBear
    DaddyBear Posts: 1,208 Forumite
    nollag2006 wrote: »
    Well it looks like it's official

    Sorry, I must have missed the part where official GDP figures are calculated by a group of idiots staring at a crystal ball.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    So the BBC has bias?

    That is what you have been saying for a long time now, they must be repositioning themselves for a new govt icon7.gif
    '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
  • nollag2006
    nollag2006 Posts: 2,638 Forumite
    edited 19 April 2010 at 12:45PM
    DaddyBear wrote: »
    .. calculated by a group of idiots staring at a crystal ball.


    Really??

    Is this why fellow despairing bear, Graham Devon, has cited these "idiots" in another thread?

    The Item club are sponsored by the global accounting and tax firm, Ernst & Young.

    I don't think E&Y would waste their time with idiots, but you could always try

    :rotfl::rotfl:
    The ITEM Club is the only economic forecasting group to use the HM Treasury model of the UK economy.
    ITEM's forecasts are independent of any political, economic or business bias, providing an impartial benchmark for other private and public economic forecasts.
  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    So, the models that didn't predict recession in 2008 aren't predicting recession in 2011. Interesting. That makes me much more reassured.
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
  • doire_2
    doire_2 Posts: 2,280 Forumite
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    nollag2006 wrote: »
    To be honest, I'd accept a little slowdown in growth this year if it means a dramatic recovery over the years to come


    Thats funny because the past few months you have been banging on that the economy has been accelerating at a lightning pace.
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