It's as fucked as it ever was.
nothings changed Exports are down 3.5% unemployment is still far above structural levels. NHS and forces redundancies are coming in their thousands in the next 3 months. Houses aren't being built, small buisnesses can't get loans, first time buyers have to save for years before getting a deposit and people are getting pay rises below inflation. That's the round, we're still fucked and equity levels mean shit all.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:40, 3 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

But other than that, what have the coalition ever done for us?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:41, Reply)

80% of equity trades are done algorithmically, they don't even know who runs the Company.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:43, Reply)

owns the company
They have absolutely no idea. When the equity market gets out of hand they switch the exchange computer off.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:45, Reply)

hey, Chomp works on the finance team, he knows how all this stuff works.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:47, Reply)

pay roll-lols

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:49, Reply)

He's the Adam Smith of B3ta.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:50, Reply)

he's the Timmy Mallet of polymaths.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:54, Reply)

He puts the sensual into nonconsensual sex.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:56, Reply)

he puts the 'hip' into 'rohypnol'

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 13:00, Reply)

The problem being is that by the time the market is getting out of hand everyone
owns a shit tonne of stock that's badly valued. That's purely based on the trend following algorithms that assume that someone knows what they're doing. And they work well, so well that they're used so much the influence of single human trade decisions are multiplied dozens of times in the first couple of miliseconds. That's dangerous.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:53, Reply)

Compared with the rest of Europe (bar Germany perhaps) we're still doing better though right?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:43, Reply)

Not really.
Better than some. Worse than others.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:46, Reply)

Better than a few but worse growth than...
Australia
Brazil
Canada
China
India
Indonesia
Japan
New Zealand
Russia
South Korea
Switzerland
Turkey
United States
(PsychoChomp, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:47, Reply)

when it's worse than Japan, it's really really bad.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:48, Reply)

None of these are in the European Union.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:51, Reply)

Except New Zealand.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:52, Reply)

I preferred the old one personally

( Peej, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:54, Reply)

Yeah, it was in Holland and you could buy puff.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:57, Reply)

Russia is in Europe.
If you're Rory.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:52, Reply)

I could only find EU wide growth, and we beat that.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:54, Reply)

Osborne has saved us!

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:56, Reply)

Whoop, whoop.
Fucking euro-johnnies.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:57, Reply)

Exports should be around 5%
*shit lager lolz*
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:45, Reply)