Thursday, Oct 30, 2008
Mr Angry
ASSETZ: Mervyn King must resign - Base rates must be cut by 2% now
Another comedy classic "We need a lion and not a mouse to lead us through these turbulent times. Next Thursday's MPC meeting should end with an announcement of a 2% base rate cut and the end of the Mervyn King era. Mervyn King should resign."
Posted by sold out @ 12:45 PM (1094 views) Add Comment
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1. shipbuilder said...
This particular mouse needs to stop his roaring - no-one is listening.
2. sold 2 rent 1 said...
But they will be cut to 2pc by April 2009
How else will we get to the end of money by 2011.
3. crutchley said...
He never fails to make me chuckle
4. jack c said...
Just think the BBC pay one of their presenters (currently suspended) £18m over 3 years and we get far better comedy from Stuatz month in month out all for free !
5. jackas said...
Ha Ha
I still maintain Assetz disappears on 5th November 2008 - that's next wednesday..
6. Keeprenting said...
Someone check the Assetz accounts on Companies House to see how long we've got before the company goes bust. I am really going to miss Stuatz's unique "insights" into the property market when it does. I still remember what his blog said after the government bailout: "The only way is up now for house prices." Heh!
7. Timwest100 said...
Its really quite amazing how this guy manages to miss-understand every aspect of economics. how does he do it?
8. jack c said...
@jackas are you trying to tell us that Stuartz is going to get a rocket up his Azzet?(5th November 2008)
9. planning4acrash said...
The end of fiat money maybe. Money always arises. Weimar Germany and early Americans used whisky as currency. The long maturity period assures stable supply. Gold and silver have always been used.
10. planning4acrash said...
Some kind of medium of exchange is always required to assure liberty, because society must overcome the problem of co-incidence of needs. What if you don't want to swap eggs for wheat? Maybe you will accept whisky or gold instead?
11. Amos said...
I've got a horrible feeling that with these extreme rate cuts we are going to bypass deflation and go straight to massive inflation.
Mr Law is the worst sort of cretin, ie he doesn't realise how ignorant he is.
12. malct said...
oh my dog - if only it was that easy - but this current dose of wealth (and power) transfer is just the latest in a barrage /raft of moves.
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I was digging for an old reference to the BBC being threatened by GATS (WTO, IMF World Bank etc) and stumbled over this piece from The Guardian in 2001 - are we really this stupid? This extract would be hilarious if it were a pantomime script, but sadly it's our life story :-
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LONDON -- Three confidential documents from inside the World Trade Organization Secretariat and a group of captains of London finance, who call themselves the "British Invisibles," reveal the extraordinary secret entanglement of industry with government in designing European and American proposals for radical pro-business changes in WTO rules.
One set of documents, minutes of the private meetings of the Liberalization of Trade in Services (LOTIS) committee, obtained by BBC television's Newsnight program and CorpWatch, record 14 secret meetings, from April 1999 and February 2001, between Britain's chief services trade negotiators, the Bank of England and the movers and shakers of the Euro-American business world.
Those attending the closed LOTIS include Peter Sutherland, International Chairman of US-based investment bank Goldman Sachs and formerly the Director General of the World Trade Organization.
LOTIS is chaired by The Right Honorable Lord Brittan of Spennithorne Q.C., who, as Leon Brittan headed the European Union. He currently serves as Vice-Chairman of international banking house UBS Warburg Dillon Read.
source:- http://skeptically.org/wto/id5.html
background :-
GATS is a far reaching agreement that would affect every public service from healthcare and education to energy, water and transportation. It would challenge national environmental, labor and consumer laws as barriers to trade making these and other critical services totally unregulated, say critics.
Barry Coates, director of the WTO watchdog organization the World Development Movement, said he was surprised to learn that the LOTIS industry members received documents which the British government had refused to give his organization, even papers "which they told us did not exist."
13. malct said...
bank bail outs - the established way - from 2002 :-
IMF-orchestrated bailouts of countries in financial crisis -- assistance to countries whose exchange rates are plummeting -- provide money primarily so that developing countries can pay off their foreign creditors, including private banks.
In 1995, the IMF contributed almost $18 billion to a Clinton administration bailout of the Wall Street interests which stood to lose billions with the peso devaluation in Mexico.
The same thing happened with the Asian financial crisis. U.S. banks had approximately $20 billion in outstanding debt in South Korea alone, with BankAmerica, Citibank, J.P. Morgan, Bankers Trust, the Bank of New York and Chase Manhattan the major banks with heavy exposure in South Korea. With the loans threatening to go bad, the IMF swooped in, pushed the government to take on the debts of failing private sector companies, and provided tens of billions of dollars to the government to pay off the debts owed to the private lenders.
The Korean bailout was particularly noteworthy for the conditions which accompanied it: South Korea was required to open its financial sector to foreign investors -- meaning the banks and international financiers who directly contributed to the financial crisis received a double benefit. Not only were they bailed out, they were given the right to penetrate the Korean financial sector.
The IMF went on to repeat the fiasco in Russia, where its August 1998 multi-billion dollar loans immediately left the country -- some directed to foreign creditors, much of it stolen and deposited in foreign bank accounts, and then later in Brazil and elsewhere around the world.
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There are substantial costs to these bailouts. Not only do they waste taxpayer money, they encourage future imprudent loans by private lenders. Knowing that they can earn high returns on risky loans without fear of losing their money if the investments go bad, lenders and investors are encouraged to direct money to unworthy sources -- making future bailouts that much more likely.
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http://www.essentialaction.org/imf/big_bank_bails.htm
14. sold 2 rent 1 said...
P4AC,,
Maybe money will always exist in one form or another.
Gold and silver will have their day; until even they are no longer needed.
15. Puppee said...
if interest rates go down much lower savers should withdraw all their cash buy a safe and keep it at home as if its not earning interest whats the point, this would cause another run on the banks it should be a balancing act so its fair to savers too
16. rm96696 said...
Amusing stuff, even by ztuart law standards. Why doesn't he propose that he should substitute Mervyn King if he has such clear insight as to what to do. We can then be confident that monetary policy will be totally focused on inflating house prices.
17. malct said...
Quote from Bernard Baruch
"Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the spring of 1927, to cut the rediscount rate.
Benjamin Strong, Governor of the bank, was chief advocate of this unwise measure, which was taken largely at the behest of Montagu Norman of the Bank of England...
At the time of the Banks action I warned of its consequences... I felt that sooner or later the market had to break."
18. 51ck-6-51x said...
Lyrics of 'Rolfcopter', on 'Skylon', by Ott (released Jan 08, most likely scored a fair few months earlier):
"""
Lie, cheat, deceive, deny;
Buy now, pay later
Consolidate your loans;
Take more, give less
Drive big, eat what you can;
Survival of the fattest;
Shock and awe 'em;
Regime change;
Do as i say, not as i do;
Eye for an eye;
Free money if you fall over;
Sue the company;
Diminished responsibility;
Everything is acceptable
- As long as house prices don't crash.
"""
Ott - are you a member here?!
19. malct said...
51ck-6-51x
superb contribution
reminds me of an old bloke I used to know