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Base rate to rise in 2013?

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  • DervProf
    DervProf Posts: 4,035 Forumite
    buglawton wrote: »
    If UK salaries an property prices were to start running away into the distance, then yes.

    So, no.

    Even if property prices were to start running away, I doubt the BoE would do anything. Salaries, maybe.
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  • asturdy2
    asturdy2 Posts: 138 Forumite
    i hope they stay where they are, ive nearly saved enough money to be mortagage free at 32 years old. Still have 20 years to run on my mortgage but its pointless overpaying when interest rates are sooo looowwww !
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  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    asturdy2 wrote: »
    Still have 20 years to run on my mortgage but its pointless overpaying when interest rates are sooo looowwww !

    Savings rates may go even lowerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr this year.

    So overpaying may increasingly become the best option for many.
  • asturdy2
    asturdy2 Posts: 138 Forumite
    yes indeed, im monitoring the situation, but i can still get 2.5% savings and my mortgage is 0.94%
    3.64KW system, aurora power one inverter, South west facing with no shading in Lancashire.
  • PaulF81
    PaulF81 Posts: 1,727 Forumite
    I have a feeling in me bones we are turning a corner. I predicted a crash back in 05, saved 100k and bought in 2010.
  • padington
    padington Posts: 3,121 Forumite
    edited 4 January 2013 at 12:48PM
    Why is the fed worried that QE is going to cause inflation if there is less money in the system even with QE ?
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  • sabretoothtigger
    sabretoothtigger Posts: 10,036 Forumite
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    edited 4 January 2013 at 9:04AM
    The FED isnt worried at all, they are trebling their efforts

    There is more money overall but its not circulating, that can change

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  • padington
    padington Posts: 3,121 Forumite
    edited 4 January 2013 at 7:15PM
    :rotfl:

    The money supply (M4) shrank by £128 bn in the two years to Oct 2012.

    And that's AFTER "the BOE added billions of £s to the currency supply".

    The currency supply is decreasing, not increasing, you prize nitwit.

    So is Hamish wrong ?
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  • padington wrote: »
    So Hamish wrong ?

    The FED is of no relevance to UK money supply.
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    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

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  • Here you go....

    UK-Money-Supply-Apr1.jpg

    Try and explain how that falling money supply is inflationary....;)
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