MSE News: Could base rate stay at 0.5% until 2014?

jdw2000

dunstonh wrote: »

Shouldn't this thread be in the debating forum as it just an opinion and not fact. There were other articles over the weekend that suggested rises will start Q3 next year. Those were also opinions. However, they were equally as valid as, to be honest, nobody has a clue what is going to happen. The financial models used to make these predictions are based on many assumptions. The outcomes can change on a figure being amended by 0.000001%

You start the title of the thread as MSE NEWS but its not news and frame it as a question.

Given the weight that some people put behind an official MSE posting, wouldnt it be better for MSE to stick to facts or put opinion/debate threads in the debating forum?

This article was not reported as a fact, so I'm not sure what your beef is. It's clearly a question: "Could base rate stay at 0.5% until 2014?"

dunstonh

jdw2000 wrote: »

This article was not reported as a fact, so I'm not sure what your beef is. It's clearly a question: "Could base rate stay at 0.5% until 2014?"

If its not reported as fact but for debate then it should go in the debating forum. Just as the board expects all the other posters to do.

Why doesnt it show the other media articles with a different view? Views that were published the very same day.

If its not reported as fact then why is it titled as MSE News? Why not MSE OPINION?

My "beef" is that there has been an increase in official MSE posts containing non-factual, media style "scaremongering" or "exaggeration" or just plain incorrect information. If we wanted exaggerated, incorrect scaremongering with sensationalist headlines then we would read the Telegraph.

Next thing we will see is the board trying to emulate he Express and have a daily picture of Princess Diana.

le_loup

dunstonh wrote: »

Next thing we will see is the board trying to emulate he Express and have a daily picture of Princess Diana.

Yea, but, if the DofE had not had her murdered, I would value her opinion on the future of base rates.

You gotta think of all sides.