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We could be 3 or 4 states?
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scrumpyjack wrote:Maybe join the USA?![]()
We could be 3 or 4 states?
Lootman wrote:scrumpyjack wrote:Maybe join the USA?![]()
We could be 3 or 4 states?
I would take being the 51st+ state a lot more than I could stomach rejoining the sclerotic EU.
England alone would become the largest state - with more weight and votes than California.
Farage and Boris for the U.S. Senate? Truss for President?
scrumpyjack wrote:Quite agree, Lootman, but our dodgy politicians look like paragons compared with most of the US ones !
Lootman wrote:scrumpyjack wrote:Maybe join the USA?![]()
We could be 3 or 4 states?
I would take being the 51st+ state a lot more than I could stomach rejoining the sclerotic EU.
England alone would become the largest state - with more weight and votes than California.
Farage and Boris for the U.S. Senate? Truss for President?
England alone would become the largest state - with more weight and votes than California.]
rhys wrote:Interesting article in the FT, two days ago.
Former member of the MPC suggest that we should adopt IMF like policies gently and sooner, rather than having them imposed with brute force later.
https://www.ft.com/content/4cf73b89-51e ... f08ecaee5c
It's behind a paywal. Google the subject title to read it at cam.ac.uk
Basically advocates disincentive for being on benefits rather than working; pay increase in short term for NHS & emergency workers, paid for by CGT and "property". INvest publicly in energy grid, trains and critical infrastructure, and cut subsidies elswewhere. No state aid for mortgagors, any help should be from the mortgagee. Liberalise planning to promote construction, not "help to buy". More immigration. More monetary policy tightening.
Lootman wrote:scrumpyjack wrote:Maybe join the USA?![]()
We could be 3 or 4 states?
I would take being the 51st+ state a lot more than I could stomach rejoining the sclerotic EU.
England alone would become the largest state - with more weight and votes than California.
Farage and Boris for the U.S. Senate? Truss for President?
enjaminef wrote:Can someone explain in more detail how it can help?
tjh290633 wrote:enjaminef wrote:Can someone explain in more detail how it can help?
The short answer is that it can't.
TJH
servodude wrote:tjh290633 wrote:The short answer is that it can't.
TJH
Can you address which points in the FT article you disagree with? (good to see this steering back on topic)
I actually thought it made quite a bit of sense - albeit with the caveat I made earlier about a low interest period being preferable for investment (but that horse has bolted - or is bolting at the moment)
rhys wrote:https://www.ft.com/content/4cf73b89-51e ... f08ecaee5c
It's behind a paywal. Google the subject title to read it at cam.ac.uk
Nimrod103 wrote:rhys wrote:https://www.ft.com/content/4cf73b89-51e ... f08ecaee5c
It's behind a paywal. Google the subject title to read it at cam.ac.uk
Bit more guidance needed on how to do this. All I get is a load of stuff about Cambridge University.
ursaminortaur wrote:Nimrod103 wrote:
Bit more guidance needed on how to do this. All I get is a load of stuff about Cambridge University.
https://www.google.com/search?q=It+is+time+for+the+UK+to+think+like+an+emerging+market
And then click on the FT link displayed ( which for me at least is the top link)
tjh290633 wrote:servodude wrote:
Can you address which points in the FT article you disagree with? (good to see this steering back on topic)
I actually thought it made quite a bit of sense - albeit with the caveat I made earlier about a low interest period being preferable for investment (but that horse has bolted - or is bolting at the moment)
I have looked at his 5 points, but I don't see those as relating to an emerging market. They do relate to current ills, like the abysmal performance of the Bank of England. Reduction of income and corporate taxes is essential to stimulate activity. No problem with reform of the labour market. Wholesale reform of the NHS has to happen, but we need a courageous government with a clear 5 year mandate to tackle it. The likely governments never will and it will be put in the "Too difficult" category.
But these are nothing to do with thinking like an emerging market, they are correcting failures of the last 25 years, since the end of the Thatcher era.
TJH
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