Comments on: UK Debt Burden http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/economics/uk-debt-burden/ Economics Blog - current events and economics essays Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:46:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rowan McDade http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/economics/uk-debt-burden/comment-page-1/#comment-4410 Rowan McDade Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:43:13 +0000 http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/?p=1870#comment-4410 "(today Military spending is a very small % of overall government spending perhaps 3 or 4%)" It's actually closer to 5%. Whilst 2% sounds like nothing, 5% is about £33bn, 3% is about £20bn. Otherwise good article, thanks “(today Military spending is a very small % of overall government spending perhaps 3 or 4%)”

It’s actually closer to 5%.
Whilst 2% sounds like nothing, 5% is about £33bn, 3% is about £20bn.

Otherwise good article, thanks

]]> By: Erick Dicksin http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/economics/uk-debt-burden/comment-page-1/#comment-4326 Erick Dicksin Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:54:53 +0000 http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/?p=1870#comment-4326 Market fundamentals seems to have hit the top with valuations no more an intrinsic aspect, rather, speculation and higher returns on assets seems to be the pursuit for these investors. Ever since the March 9th rally, the global markets have seen unprecedented rally with some markets doubling in just 6 months or so. I remember one trigger, a report published in mid-February (16th precisely) early this year from Mumbai, India, by an economist who rightly predicted this scintillating Bull Run when the market was crashing down like cards. Moreover, the same analyst has been able to develop a statistical market model and an indicator system which might prove (and its proving either) doomsday for technical analyst or chartists around the globe. It runs something like p-value based trading system, which has some unique utilities. Using this, one can model interest rate trends, crude prices and other variables. However and whatever may it be, even if Roubini did correctly predict the recession, he was too pessimistic about the early recovery (see Bernanke's comments on economic recover). And its' time again we are into a major commodity bubble this time, with so much liquidity sloshing around, inflation is bound to happen, only by a matter of time, and by then, Fed would have had to act on its FFR, kept stagnant at 0.25% now. A very crucial incident that strangely and unexpectedly altered Asian Economy is that, Japan appeared to have recovered from her prolonged stagflation, marking the awakening of a sleepy-giant consumption driven economy. This single factor proves that the World economy no later, will however recover faster than that expected by Roubini and Co. aks. jone Market fundamentals seems to have hit the top with valuations no more an intrinsic aspect, rather, speculation and higher returns on assets seems to be the pursuit for these investors. Ever since the March 9th rally, the global markets have seen unprecedented rally with some markets doubling in just 6 months or so. I remember one trigger, a report published in mid-February (16th precisely) early this year from Mumbai, India, by an economist who rightly predicted this scintillating Bull Run when the market was crashing down like cards. Moreover, the same analyst has been able to develop a statistical market model and an indicator system which might prove (and its proving either) doomsday for technical analyst or chartists around the globe. It runs something like p-value based trading system, which has some unique utilities. Using this, one can model interest rate trends, crude prices and other variables. However and whatever may it be, even if Roubini did correctly predict the recession, he was too pessimistic about the early recovery (see Bernanke’s comments on economic recover). And its’ time again we are into a major commodity bubble this time, with so much liquidity sloshing around, inflation is bound to happen, only by a matter of time, and by then, Fed would have had to act on its FFR, kept stagnant at 0.25% now. A very crucial incident that strangely and unexpectedly altered Asian Economy is that, Japan appeared to have recovered from her prolonged stagflation, marking the awakening of a sleepy-giant consumption driven economy. This single factor proves that the World economy no later, will however recover faster than that expected by Roubini and Co.
aks. jone

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