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Blimey....what did I miss 🤭🤭🤭
Come on guys it's FA cup final week positive vibes only! ✌🏻
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I have given plenty about both my academic background, my career and my business interests. But it’s still belittled.
And my background is in economics. That is literally using past data and trends to try and predict the future! It’s exactly the same as weather forecasting, it’s impossible to be 100% right as there are so many variables and uncontrollables.
And if I’m a troll, what do the posters that snipe (putting it politely) at Wisbech on a daily basis do?
The fight is for market share, my view is that they will have to drop premiums otherwise the market will bring in new players. Generally speaking, non life insurers , which group medical insurers fall into are very happy if all their outgoings are 95% of their premiums received. The 5% margin plus investment income gives a very good return to shareholders.
I simple terms, a poster crossed a line in making a comment about another poster's family.
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Teddy Eagle
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That was one of his points - that it's not enough for the Democrats to just be anti-Trump. They actually need to appeal to voters with some viable policies of their own.
In theory, problem is they have lost a lot of the organised labour vote who are looking to Trump to improve well paid jobs in simple terms. Parallels with UK and Reform getting huge numbers of traditional Labour voters. Trump is not particularly Republican in the old sense.
It will all depend on Trumps economic performance, the border is important but not key, same with the fentanyl epidemic.
The Dems can't do another Russia hoax this time, they have played that card.
And they surely can't have another candidate as bad as Harris
Above is my opinion only
" It's the economy , stupid "
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And the hurty words brigade got all precious 😎
Very true , look at Rachel from accounts, she is an economist and not doing too well. Art not a science etc
UK economy in a better state than the US.
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Please tell me I'm the other one.
Why Is the US Economy Surging Ahead of the UK? - Conversable Economist
The US economy has emerged from the pandemic growing at a faster pace than the UK and other high-income countries. Simon Pittaway tackles the question of why in "Yanked away: Accounting for the post-pandemic productivity divergence between Britain and America" (Resolution Foundation, April...
conversableeconomist.com
Lots of opinions everywhere
Why Is the US Economy Surging Ahead of the UK? - Conversable Economist
The US economy has emerged from the pandemic growing at a faster pace than the UK and other high-income countries. Simon Pittaway tackles the question of why in "Yanked away: Accounting for the post-pandemic productivity divergence between Britain and America" (Resolution Foundation, April...
Lots of opinions everywhere
Yep no doubt it was doing better and even well under Biden. That was until Q1 this year when there was a retraction. Might want to find out why that was.
Stirlingsays
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He Hogged your limelight.
I'll get me coat.
I bet he's heard that a million times already.
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The ultimate victory.
Teddy Eagle
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My limelight is a very indistinct entity. There are insects which produce more illumination.
Stirlingsays
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Anyone thinking the US economy was doing 'well' isn't looking at the direction of travel.
Its debt burden is unsustainable, especially in a world environment where the dollar is slowly losing its hegemony as the world currency......You can't issue debt if nations don't buy enough of your dollars.
These people who think that the US economy can just continue along adding two trillion to its debt pile every year are frankly nuts. The interest payments are already higher than the defence budget. Continuing as they were meant eventual bankruptcy. If I remember correctly something like one sixth of their taxes.....nuts.
China has been reducing its American debt for many years now, as part of the direction of travel for conflict. The conflict with Russia has emboldened the Global south and that rival economic group threatens the dollar......there are long term consequences to taking Russia's money in Europe. It was foolish to spend it.....Foreign investment into Europe by countries that aren't lock step with Europe will inevitably be affected.....Maybe that's a good thing long term, but personally I think it's pretty dim short term to do it that way.
What Trump is doing is an interesting attempt to arrest US economic decline.
The whole neoliberal model is dependent upon enough growth to pay for its large welfare model with its ageing population. The neoliberals thought third world immigration would plug that growth gap, but they were always wrong, as their ideology can't accept the many interconnected truths that immigration brings that means anything.....other than high skilled immigration....such as bringing low skilled foreign labour in mean you bring with them many more costs and problems...that end up outweighing the benefits, and then you are stuck with them.
The soy is fundamentally ideological and thus rather stupid. Even Blair knew that the type of immigration had gone wrong.
Social and neo liberals are mostly short term careerists and have ruined their nations over decades of control....both socially and economically. They are going to deserve the fall and frankly the sooner the better....they aren't even real liberals anyway.
Its debt burden is unsustainable, especially in a world environment where the dollar is slowly losing its hegemony as the world currency......You can't issue debt if nations don't buy enough of your dollars.
These people who think that the US economy can just continue along adding two trillion to its debt pile every year are frankly nuts. The interest payments are already higher than the defence budget. Continuing as they were meant eventual bankruptcy. If I remember correctly something like one sixth of their taxes.....nuts.
China has been reducing its American debt for many years now, as part of the direction of travel for conflict. The conflict with Russia has emboldened the Global south and that rival economic group threatens the dollar......there are long term consequences to taking Russia's money in Europe. It was foolish to spend it.....Foreign investment into Europe by countries that aren't lock step with Europe will inevitably be affected.....Maybe that's a good thing long term, but personally I think it's pretty dim short term to do it that way.
What Trump is doing is an interesting attempt to arrest US economic decline.
The whole neoliberal model is dependent upon enough growth to pay for its large welfare model with its ageing population. The neoliberals thought third world immigration would plug that growth gap, but they were always wrong, as their ideology can't accept the many interconnected truths that immigration brings that means anything.....other than high skilled immigration....such as bringing low skilled foreign labour in mean you bring with them many more costs and problems...that end up outweighing the benefits, and then you are stuck with them.
The soy is fundamentally ideological and thus rather stupid. Even Blair knew that the type of immigration had gone wrong.
Social and neo liberals are mostly short term careerists and have ruined their nations over decades of control....both socially and economically. They are going to deserve the fall and frankly the sooner the better....they aren't even real liberals anyway.
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First off, I forgot to say, I'm Jesus!
I was totally unaware of you academic background or your career – only that you are a partner at a company somewhere.
Looking at your recent posts, there is no economic insight or analysis from you at all and others can decide if it's actually you that does the sniping – Search results
I'm all for a bit of banter and want people to (respectfully) disagree with each other. But some thoughtful (non partisan) posts on economic policies would be interesting if that's your area of expertise.
Debt did balloon under Biden, but comparatively they are in better shape than the UK on most metrics.