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I do alot of shopping in Lidl France. Yesterday bought 48 bottles 250ml of blonde beer brewed in Strasbourg for €11.98 euro under a quid a pint. White wine UK Lidl £4.58, SAME Lidl France €1.99. Good Bergerac €1.99. Pasta cheaper, macorni 500g 35 cents, not everything but most things. I compare the flyers from UK & France then fill me boots. Bottom line, excellent quality for price. Don't you just love the EU?....lol French cheese is shite - each to there own.

What screwed up the US UK trade deficits and others was China coming into the economic world. Easy to consume other nations products at cheaper prices. Close down or move your factories east. The result is what you see today. So if these economic smartasses couldn't see it coming - they ain't so smart after all. All comes down to what u get for your dollar - and fcuk the long term consequences.

That's what happens when you're a patriot. Regards housing, that's what happens when you keep letting them in.

Newchurch - No, it's not the only way to ease the debt burden. Living within your means and stop overspending for starters. Every year it becomes worse, the handouts, welfare, milatary spending - but then it's not a vote winner is it. Austerity is a no no to the yanks, a great power seen in decline? I don't think so. The only thing keeping the nation propped up is it's reserve currency status - dollar demand, but that will change due to the debt burden at some point. Yes inflation will erode debt. It's higher than official figures, just how they want it, the higher the better. The official figure is a marker for tolerance levels.

That's offensive UT. Takes the pis s out of the Tiger. Christ, what's the world coming too.

Sknowflakes - test

Cornflakes works....oh yeah!

TFE, sure you can figure that out?

Lloyd's as a comparison to the FTSE since mid April looks definitely unwell - the mind boggles. The algorithms need a new programmer.

What a Fking mess... Nuff said.

Warp factor 9 Scotty to 29th March 19

Zzzzzzzz FMOBs

Are going nowhere as growth stocks. Dividend payers yes, but all the talk of buybacks, ppi, profits ect is meaningless when you consider the bigger picture. The big investors who could move the SP chose not to - why? Simple in my view. Avoid banks/financials or minimum exposure to higher rates QT which will effect them all no matter how clean your shirt is. Primary up trend is over in markets, only being held up by Central Banks who work together to prop the system. Banks/financials are issuers of debt instruments in an already over indebted world - the outcome will be the same as it always is. So the FED is expected to put another nail in the coffin this week - we shall see. If so, the rope will tighten further, followed by louder squeals. ZIRP/NIRP won't last forever, but the problem is we live by it. Cheap money, leverage ect which will catch many out - unintended consequences. Bwtfdik

Newchurch, did u get banned again?

John, the feds take up the slack increasingly so, when the so called "free markets" do a runner. You can see where it's headed. Same with all CBs, buyers of last resort of your own debt. Debt kills confidence eventually.

It will end when the CBs decide, or a Lehmans type event occurs with contagion. Other than that the CBs will prop up markets on bad news like the recent Italian debacle. For now there's zero tolerance for market turbulence.

LOL, looks like he'll have to hand his knighthood back. What a berk.

Fine words. Easy then, but who stumps up the money?

John, another .25bps. Too little too late. Following Greenspan mistake in rapping up the credit binge way behind time.

It's the norm Troajan. Credit cycles, booms & busts. Rates go up then go down. Charts tell you everything. QT has started so has higher rates. We all know what's coming next - classic CB procedure. You suck em in, they come out like sheep with no fleece.