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Has the Fed got any ammo left after all that QE?

Can China weaken it's currency equal to US tariffs of 10 to 25% on various goods?

No matter what Trump is personally, or what people think of him... he is trying to do something about America's debt. He recognises that whilst the USA has trade deficits with multiple countries... the debt will continue to grow at a rapid rate. If he can get the deficits down, then it's possible the USA could actually start paying some of their debt off.

It doesn't matter how big a countries economy is, if the Debt is growing at a faster rate than GDP, eventually that country becomes a weaker credit risk. When the Credit reference agencies downgrade the USA, it will have to pay higher interest rates to borrow more....

If that happens the debt increases even faster. The USA has an over $500 Billion (half a trillion) deficit with China... it simply can't go on. He tried negotiating with China, but instead China said they will fight till the bitter end.

So unless China back down the worlds two biggest economies are going to go toe to toe... progressively throwing more and more punches until one hits the deck. My money's on America winning.

But what happens to all the Western debt tied up in China? If things turn really nasty, China's government could stick two fingers up to debtors... It doesn't take much imagination to work out what would happen to world markets if that happens.

Snige,

You think the point I was making is wrong? So all the previous crashes everyone seen it coming?

When the market crash comes, it'll be for something new. Something that hasn't crashed the markets before... it's nit bad news that crashes markets. It's uncertainty. Uncertainty causes panic selling, and the banks to tighten up lending criteria.

Sure the debt will add to the fear... but usually it's something unexpected. We can only guess what that might be.

1. Trump getting impeached followed by Civil unrest?
2. Right wing vs left wing violence
3. China's economy collapsing.
4. The EU bailouts and or countries looking to leave
5. A major terrorist attack like 9/11 but different/worse.
6. Russia and China declaring war on the USA. The 7 day military drills are the biggest in Russia's history, yet Putin says he has no aggressive plans.

These are just some of the things that could happen, they may seem far fetched. But anything's possible.

A Canada style agreement would give both Brexiteers and Remainers what they want. Chequers only gives Remainers what they want.

Her Brexit plan is rubbish I agree. The ERG's Brexit plan is not, they want a Canada Style agreement. Gives us Free Trade without the 4 freedoms... one being the Freedom of Movement.

Yet the undemocratic treacherous Treason May and her sycophants keep telling the Mainstream Media that the ERG has no plan. Which is blatant lies.

Even Barnier signified that a Canada Style agreement would be preferable to Chequers. But Treason May persists with Chequers, because she's trying to dress Remaining up as Brexit.

I'm not talking about the Newbies mate... I've seen people over the years a couple of weeks after having it fully explained to them in undeniable detail, still coming on and quoting big buys like it matters.

Unless the big buy is a fecking takeover it's rarely a gauge of the overall picture. Think about it... how many times have you seen an order for several millions towards the end of the day, only for the price to drop the next day anyway? Or big sells only for it to rise the next day? :-)

Also if you think Trump being impeached is a good thing for any holdings you have, then you have a short memory. The entire global markets rallied for months after he took office... people were speculating everyday on when will this Trump rally end.

Now people who invest in stocks who also don't like Trump, somehow have arrived at the conclusion that Trump being impeached is a good thing for their holdings. You couldn't make it up.

Scfc,

That will be ignored by 90+% of people on the LSE. You could post it everyday for a fortnight and some Trumpet will still come on say wow look at that big buy order... someone's confident :-)

"A firm centrist and anti-populist "

Anti-Populist is a fancy way of saying you're anti popular. Have you never thought for a second why Trump & Brexit is popular, and why the true Conservative parties are becoming more and more popular all over Europe?

No doubt a condescending answer or none at all will happen.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45498514

"What is Hungary accused of?
Since coming to power, Mr Orban's government has taken a hardline stance against immigration. It introduced a law which made it a criminal offence for lawyers and activists to help asylum seekers, under the banner of "facilitating illegal immigration"."

So the Hungarian people are basically being told, what you want for your own country is not what the EU wants for your country. So we are going to punish your country because you voted for politicians that wouldn't submit to the EU anymore.

Hungary couldn't possibly be thinking about an IN/OUT referendum :-)

I agree with the shortage of housing Snige. If the government really gave the slightest feck about the shortage of houses, they wouldn't be allowing 282,000 migrants into the country.

The way pro Remainers go on, you'd think the country simply couldn't survive without the rampant immigration we're subjected to. All the years before the EU membership, how did we ever survive.

And Ironically the older the houses are the bigger the square footage in general, you know back in a time where wages kept up with inflation because British people didn't have to compete with nearly 300,000 migrants a year for housing, which meant the British people could buy more than a Wendy house when on a modest income.

Now the young of this country will be lucky to get on the property ladder before they're 40

Italy and Hungary are defying the EU on Migration. Now the EU wants to sanction them, I hope they do... that will turn Hungary and Italy's citizens against the EU and make it more likely Hungary and Italy vote to leave the EUSSR sooner than I anticipated.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6110037/Hungary-Italy-launch-anti-migration-plan-vow-exclude-socialists-left.html

What has this got to do with LLOY?... You're right, the showing signs of collapsing couldn't possibly affect European markets.

"If you speak to many builders you will find without the rampant EU workforce then the ticky-tacky houses wouldn't get built in the first place."

And these EU workers are not the highly skilled Polish builders people think they are. I bought a £400k house in the South East. It had many Eastern Europeans working to build it. I have first hand experience of it. The builder had to work on my house for months to fix it... and one of the delightful EU workers you speak of stole over £10k worth of stuff from my house including a diamond ring.

I asked every one of them that had a good command of English what their experience was and none of them had actual qualifications or time served... they winged it at the agency and the builder took them for the cheap Labour.

These builders are all the same there's massive complaints against them all. I'd rather we trained British workers the way we used to. Time served apprenticeships, with a Clark of works checking all the tradesmen's work. Right now it's all price work too, so contractors bidding for work, under cutting each other until the margin is so small that they have to rush the job in the smallest possible time to make it profitable.

Rampant profiteering from the rampant immigration. Throw tiny houses up on cheap land. No planning permission for the Green belt.

When there's big demand, and little supply developers can get away with selling smaller properties for a lot of money. Add to that the horrendous build quality of New Builds in the UK and this is going to be one of the scandals of the future. Just like PPI was.

Right now you literally have more legal protection buying a toaster than a New Build house.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out which religious demographic this is in aid of. Blasphemy laws have been re-introduced through the back door.

We are no longer permitted to have an opinion if it offends someone. They can stick that right where the sun don't shine!

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/south-yorkshire-police-relentlessly-mocked-after-urging-people-to-report-one-another-for-offensive-a3932131.html

And I'm not kidding hahaha

Quick phone the South Yorkshire police. There has been a "Non-Crime Hate" committed. Someone has committed the offence of exercising their Freedom of Expression. The cartoon is not currently a crime, but if people feel it offends them then it should be reported to the South Yorkshire Police.

The Warriors of social justice. :-P

The ERG want a Canada Style deal. Even Barnier seemed happy with that. But despite this the undemocratic Liberal Globalist MP's pretending they're Conservative keep saying they have no alternative plan. This is more lies from the Remain dressed as Brexit MP's, this is the usual for the sycophants surrounding Treason May.