Brexit, The Economy and House Prices (Part 2)

Herzlos

A_Medium_Size_Jock wrote: »

As I'm not sure what you are getting at.
Are PwC supposedly the only source of economic forecasts?
Are other sources not as reputable?

I don't know, how reputable is PwC? I'm getting very mixed messages from you.

A_Medium_Size_Jock

mayonnaise wrote: »

I think it all depends on what they say.

Floundering?
See the post above.

Is this the PWC which couldn't forecast the Oscars despite knowing the result?

And now this:

Business minister Greg Clark will launch the first phase of a 246 million pound investment into battery technology on Monday, part of the government's industrial strategy to boost productivity and spread wealth in Britain.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-industry-idUKKBN1A80ZB

A_Medium_Size_Jock

Herzlos wrote: »

I don't know, how reputable is PwC? I'm getting very mixed messages from you.

Why? Do you mean that you don't want to understand maybe?
It's really very simple.

I like for example Rag'n'bone Man; his voice is excellent.
It doesn't mean I like ALL his songs though.

That principal applies to pretty much everything throughout life.
There is nothing at all "mixed" about that, it is plain common sense.

Herzlos

A_Medium_Size_Jock wrote: »

Floundering?
See the post above.

I think we can move on now, since you're going to keep dodging an answer until we all get bored.

And now this:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-industry-idUKKBN1A80ZB

That's actually good news - it's about time we tried to push some innovation and EV batteries is going to be a bigger deal over time. This might even help with the Mini EV contract at Oxford.

I'm curious as to what the investment will consist of / where it'll go, but it's investment all the same.

Arklight

A_Medium_Size_Jock wrote: »

I refer you to this:
http://economicsonline.co.uk/Managing_the_economy/Measuring_unemployment.html
The UK are (still) a member of the EU.
To suggest then that any EU member country measures their unemployment in a different manner is untrue.

Again, this was covered last time.


There is no centralised means of recording unemployment in the UK. The data collection method we use for reporting is via the ONS canvassing individuals under the Labour Force Survey.


Once interviewees have been referred to a workfare scheme, or claim that they are not looking for work because there are no jobs for them to look for they are no longer added to the unemployment figures.


The main difference is that Europeans don't consider someone in insecure low hour employment as being employed, whereas we do.

A_Medium_Size_Jock

London mayor Sadiq Khan has said Volkswagen (VW) has shown "utter contempt" for Londoners after the German car giant has refused to pay £2.5m to compensate congestion charge money lost due to the emissions scandal.

http://www.cityam.com/268987/mayor-sadiq-khan-says-vw-has-shown-utter-contempt-refusing

Herzlos wrote: »

I think we can move on now, since you're going to keep dodging an answer until we all get bored.

But I did answer. See post 1782.

Isn't it strange how some within these forums fail to grasp even the concept of objectivity?
Not I must confess that I am any more perfect than anyone else but the blind refusal of some to accept differing sources and opinions is perhaps not entirely surprising.

Herzlos

A_Medium_Size_Jock wrote: »

Why? Do you mean that you don't want to understand maybe?
It's really very simple.

I like for example Rag'n'bone Man; his voice is excellent.
It doesn't mean I like ALL his songs though.

That principal applies to pretty much everything throughout life.
There is nothing at all "mixed" about that, it is plain common sense.

You're still dodging the question.

You're allowed to have different views on stuff from the same source, but there's usually a reason for it.

Why is your pro-brexit citation of PwC to be taken seriously, whilst all of the anti-brexit citations are to be ignored? what's your recommended criteria of when we should listen to PwC?

Are there some editors we should listen to and some we should ignore? Is it just gut feeling? Corroboration with other sources?

If the answer is just your pro-Brexit bias that's perfectly acceptible. It's a better answer than trying to pretend there's more to it.

gfplux

Tromking wrote: »

Not a good week for the EU's 'great white hope'. Macron's approval rating slips 10 points in a week and he loses his head of the armed forces, his planned budget cuts not going down to well with the French people.

Not a good six months for the western worlds great hope of white people.
Trumps approval rating slips further down.
Which has as much to do with Brexit as Macrons position in the polls. Let's not even bother to talk about how popular the Prime Minister of Britain is!

http://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/trumps-approval-how-low-can-he-go/

A_Medium_Size_Jock

Herzlos wrote: »

You're still dodging the question.

You're allowed to have different views on stuff from the same source, but there's usually a reason for it.

Why is your pro-brexit citation of PwC to be taken seriously, whilst all of the anti-brexit citations are to be ignored? what's your recommended criteria of when we should listen to PwC?

Are there some editors we should listen to and some we should ignore? Is it just gut feeling? Corroboration with other sources?

If the answer is just your pro-Brexit bias that's perfectly acceptible. It's a better answer than trying to pretend there's more to it.

Just because you refuse to accept a complete and honest answer does not mean this answer has not been given.

If you will not accept that reply perhaps, say, because your pro-EU bias contains a refusal that alternative viable "citations" exist, then that may be a better answer than trying to pretend that the answer has not been given.

Simply, I have nowhere said that one PwC example is to be heeded and another ignored.
Show me where I say this?
Instead differing sources have been given to show balance.
Objectivity.
Perhaps you could try it.

Arklight

gfplux wrote: »

Not a good six months for the western worlds great hope of white people.
Trumps approval rating slips further down.
Which has as much to do with Brexit as Macrons position in the polls. Let's not even bother to talk about how popular the Prime Minister of Britain is!

http://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/trumps-approval-how-low-can-he-go/

I am praying for Rees Mogg to take over. Even The Sun is going to have a hard time convincing the proles that he is the man in their corner.