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Predictions For 2011

Last night I was at a splendid dinner party as hosted by my neighbours. (We have one every year about this time of year to promote our friendly local community ties and spirit with each neighbour taking it in turn to host the dinner. Hey it works for us.) Anyway this years hosts also own a single one bed apartment in the market town nearby which during the evenings discussion we got into all our future predictions for next year. From the economy, interest rates, growth, landlords, and lowly renters, we all drew up what we thought 2011 would bring us, and whether or not it would be a successful year for one and all. Here's our basic summary:

Economy - 2.1% growth. Slow during start of year with a strong thick end.
Unemployment - Will fluctuate up and down around the 7.5% mark before ending down 1% point from now to around 6.8%.
Interest Rates - Hold at 0.5% to ensure the recovery is locked in. No rises until 2013 at the earliest and that will only be to 1%.
House Prices - Up from today although the first few months of 2011 will be stabilised figures before finally closing up 2.5%.
Landlords - Good year with the steady rental increases currently being seen will escalate through the year. Rents up and average £30 a month.
Tenents - Very bad year with the steady rental increases currently being seen will escalate through the year. Annual rents increasing by £360 each year.

If any one of my predictions fails to see through to this time next year I'm more than happy to say I was wrong. Now anyone else prepared to do likewise and nail their own predictions to the mask?
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  • Cleaver
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    Anyway this years hosts also own a single one bed apartment in the market town nearby which during the evenings discussion we got into all our future predictions for next year. From the economy, interest rates, growth, landlords, and lowly renters, we all drew up what we thought 2011 would bring us, and whether or not it would be a successful year for one and all. Here's our basic summary:

    Economy - 2.1% growth. Slow during start of year with a strong thick end.
    Unemployment - Will fluctuate up and down around the 7.5% mark before ending down 1% point from now to around 6.8%.
    Interest Rates - Hold at 0.5% to ensure the recovery is locked in. No rises until 2013 at the earliest and that will only be to 1%.
    House Prices - Up from today although the first few months of 2011 will be stabilised figures before finally closing up 2.5%.
    Landlords - Good year with the steady rental increases currently being seen will escalate through the year. Rents up and average £30 a month.
    Tenents - Very bad year with the steady rental increases currently being seen will escalate through the year. Annual rents increasing by £360 each year.

    Remind me never to attend one of your dinner parties.
  • Cleaver wrote: »
    Remind me never to attend one of your dinner parties.
    Well it would be bad form and look bad on them if one family on the whole street didn't attend. Besides the parties are a good hoot and great for the community.
  • PhylPho
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    Now anyone else prepared to do likewise and nail their own predictions to the mask?

    Is that the one worn by the Loan Ranger at that dinner party?
  • unemployment you not seen the news, where do all the students being unable to gain jobs, or afford tuition fees
    and public sector workers losing there jobs fit in

    Base rate 1.5% by 2011 year end
  • taxi97w
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    US dollar loses value as countries around the world refuse to trade with it. Also loses is position as the reserve currency around the world. Riots in the streets of USA to follow.

    US central reserve bank, IMF, Bank of England and many more, are seen for what they really are, ie Rothschild Zionist controlled banks and not government banks as most people think.

    The Euro, may, like the $US, disappear completely.

    Much more, but I don't want to upset your xmas cheer just yet.
    more dollar$ than sense
  • Cleaver
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    taxi97w wrote: »
    US dollar loses value as countries around the world refuse to trade with it. Also loses is position as the reserve currency around the world. Riots in the streets of USA to follow.

    US central reserve bank, IMF, Bank of England and many more, are seen for what they really are, ie Rothschild Zionist controlled banks and not government banks as most people think.

    The Euro, may, like the $US, disappear completely.

    Much more, but I don't want to upset your xmas cheer just yet.

    Ahh go on, give us all you've got. I like all the apocalyptic predictions on here at the end of each year.

    Maybe we dig out all the ones from the end of 2009 from this forum that said we'd all be living in bunkers by now, living off radiator water from rusting, abandoned cars.
  • the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from his tomb to revive His subjects and resume his rule of earth....Then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.

    Adventures-of-Cthulhu.jpg

    Base rate may go up by 1% by the end of the year.
    "Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves." - Norm Franz
  • AD9898_2
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    Cleaver wrote: »
    Remind me never to attend one of your dinner parties.

    As I scrolled down the musings of that 'boring beyond belief dinner party', this phrase instantly sprung to mind. :D

    Just to edit, even the promise of a sh*g from a complete stranger by the end of the night wouldn't have been enough to stop me reaching for my coat early.
    Have owned outright since Sept 2009, however I'm of the firm belief that high prices are a cancer on society, they have sucked money out of the economy, handing it to banks who've squandered it.
  • taxi97w
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    Cleaver wrote: »
    Ahh go on, give us all you've got. I like all the apocalyptic predictions on here at the end of each year.

    Maybe we dig out all the ones from the end of 2009 from this forum that said we'd all be living in bunkers by now, living off radiator water from rusting, abandoned cars.

    It won't be us living in the bunkers- it will be the Rothschild Zionists and gov't cohorts etc. We'll be in the camps and I don't mean holiday camps- google video FEMA camps or FEMA coffins.

    Now that't enough for now otherwise you really will not have a happy new year. :cool:
    more dollar$ than sense
  • AD9898 wrote: »
    As I scrolled down the musings of that 'boring beyond belief dinner party', this phrase instantly sprung to mind. :D

    Just to edit, even the promise of a sh*g from a complete stranger by the end of the night wouldn't have been enough to stop me reaching for my coat early.
    By all accounts not all the parties are mine, as I said we all take it in turns and last night I wasn't hosting. We all had a ball though.

    But that aside please detail your predictions.
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