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BoE raises interest rates to stem massive looming inflation

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    BoE raises interest rates to stem massive looming inflation

    Bank raises base rate to 5%



    #2
    I blame the condems
    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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      #3
      Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
      I blame the condems


      condoms

      If they were any good we would not have to put up with those deflationary types...

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        #4
        While the continue to print money which, ironically, creates inflation! My what a wonderful world these bankers live in.

        Besides, with all the money the US has printed, the BOE raising rates won't make a tiny bit of difference.
        McCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
        Spock: "Trained? Judging from you, I would have guessed it was trial and error."

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          #5
          Originally posted by lilelvis2000 View Post
          While the continue to print money which, ironically, creates inflation! My what a wonderful world these bankers live in.

          Besides, with all the money the US has printed, the BOE raising rates won't make a tiny bit of difference.
          Can you explain? In what sense is the BoE "continuing" to print money, given that QE has been frozen for months. In fact, in what sense is QE "printing money" in the first place?
          "A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the s*** that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come." -- Lester Freamon

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            #6
            Originally posted by Freamon View Post
            In fact, in what sense is QE "printing money" in the first place?
            0.5% official rate when real inflation is well over 5% is the same as printing money.

            HTH

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              #7
              Originally posted by AtW View Post
              0.5% official rate when real inflation is well over 5% is the same as printing money.

              HTH
              There's more than one logical leap of faith in that statement.

              Is "inflation" only ever due to printing money?
              "A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the s*** that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come." -- Lester Freamon

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                #8
                Originally posted by Freamon View Post
                There's more than one logical leap of faith in that statement.

                Is "inflation" only ever due to printing money?
                No, theres

                this kind of inflation as well
                Doing the needful since 1827

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                  #9
                  Markets sentiment is that leaving UK base rates unchanged is more destructive to the £ than a tsunami.

                  Sterling is down over 1% against the Yen today. Japan, which has and continues to suffer its biggest earthquake in recorded history and the 7th biggest in history globally, and which will presumably cost untold trillions of Yen to the economy, is on firmer ground than the UK.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
                    Markets sentiment is that leaving UK base rates unchanged is more destructive to the £ than a tsunami.

                    Sterling is down over 1% against the Yen today. Japan, which has and continues to suffer its biggest earthquake in recorded history and the 7th biggest in history globally, and which will presumably cost untold trillions of Yen to the economy, is on firmer ground than the UK.
                    1.3% down now.

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