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Bank of England warns of the consequences of thrift
London Telegraph ^ | 9/21/09 | Angela Monaghan

Posted on 09/21/2009 6:51:07 AM PDT by Claud

Bank of England warns of the consequences of thrift An attempt by British consumers to rein in spending after the harsh lessons of the recession could limit growth and therefore depress household income further, the Bank of England warns today.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bankofengland; economy; saving; thrift
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Do your patriotic duty, Britain....spend yourselves into debt!!!
1 posted on 09/21/2009 6:51:08 AM PDT by Claud
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A century of the boom-and-BUST cycle created intentionally by central banks such as the BoE, and we’re still taking what they say seriously?

END THE FED

END ALL CENTRAL BANKS


2 posted on 09/21/2009 6:52:25 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (I'd rather be a teabagger than an ankle-grabber.)
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To: Claud

Idiots, they can’t spend what they have not got anymore. Thats what caused this bloody mess.


3 posted on 09/21/2009 6:52:46 AM PDT by sunmars
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What's the solution to the credit crunch caused by massive overspending and a too rapid expansion of credit?

You got it..............more credit!

4 posted on 09/21/2009 6:54:10 AM PDT by marshmallow ("A country which kills its own children has no future" -Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
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To: Claud

Yup, we can use a battery to run a motor, which can run a generator which charges the battery. Free power.

Seems that we scientists figured out the flaw over a century ago.

Too bad the flunkouts all went to economics and politics.


5 posted on 09/21/2009 6:55:19 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Spend your way to prosperity. I think we tried that.


6 posted on 09/21/2009 6:56:33 AM PDT by all the best
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How dare you ungrateful masses try to keep more of what’s yours! Don’t you know the state needs your money????


7 posted on 09/21/2009 6:56:45 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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.....people everywhere aren’t paying any attention to this nonsense....they know that overspending on credit cards made them unhappy and hurt their marriages....it will take a generation before they go back to their old ways.


8 posted on 09/21/2009 6:57:21 AM PDT by STONEWALLS
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To: marshmallow; sunmars

This “going Galt” strategy—or plain old thrift, however you wanna call it—is scaring the living daylights out of these banksters.


9 posted on 09/21/2009 6:58:35 AM PDT by Claud
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To: Da Coyote
Yup, we can use a battery to run a motor, which can run a generator which charges the battery. Free power.

LOL...and while we're at it, let's end our dependence on fossil fuels by plugging our cars into the grid! ;)

10 posted on 09/21/2009 7:01:17 AM PDT by Claud
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Meanwhile, more and more taxpayers are bugging out of Britain.

Go figger.

11 posted on 09/21/2009 7:02:40 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: Claud

I guess they have to “Feed the Birds!”


12 posted on 09/21/2009 7:04:16 AM PDT by TexGuy (If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
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Who would of thought we could of overthrow the system by .....being cheap?

That’s my kind of revolution!

As said duing WWII, “Save for Liberty!”

( Well, actually back then that was really more of YOU people do without, while us the STATE wastes, kills, and destroys. Now, however, the state is saying, You waste, destroy yourself, get into more debt and SAVE US. Funny things governments. Best to avoid them.)


13 posted on 09/21/2009 7:14:13 AM PDT by Leisler (It's going to be a hard, long winter)
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Another aspect is anti- or post consumerism, we all already have everything we need and most of us have too much crap(this is why storage units are one of the few growth industries ).

And shame on the banks and other ruthless whores for demanding we keep their "services" pumping away.

It's rather peaceful spending time on ourselves instead of running around the consumer gerbil wheel.

We're ok, they're not.

14 posted on 09/21/2009 7:15:30 AM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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Instead of Galts Gulch, somewhere out west, we each have it in our pockets.

Remember three years ago( ? ) Bush sending out spend it checks? Obviously this has been going on for a long time, and is, of course, ‘bi-partisan’.

F’em. Not that I spend much anyways, but I’ll what I can. Every dollar ‘saved’ ( minus what value the, ahem, ‘value protecting’ Federal Reserve Corporation, LLC destroys each and every day ) is a bullet against the system.


15 posted on 09/21/2009 7:17:58 AM PDT by Leisler (It's going to be a hard, long winter)
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They are not because they make their money by transaction fees. They are like thug doorman that say you can not get into the bar with out duking them. Well, many are drinking at home or the beach or park.

I swear the recent NYSE run up is like a bar under new management fluffing up promotions. To bad too many people got the S beat out of them, their purses stolen, and they have the same staff, same names and want us to think they are different now. “Come on in Suckers! Spend your life day ebbing money in the Federal Reserve Company Bars and Saloons! No rot gut booze here, no Sir! No future Shanghai debts on some financial slave ship for the next twenty years! Under New Management!”

Yeah, right.


16 posted on 09/21/2009 7:23:19 AM PDT by Leisler (It's going to be a hard, long winter)
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There’s not enough consumin’ goin’ on out there!


17 posted on 09/21/2009 7:24:14 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Da Coyote

Yeah, but they took their flunk out notions of what science is, and like cargo-cultist in New Guinea, they made a science(ish) monster, that they insist is the real thing.

It isn’t even Newton(ish). It isn’t even basic Lego mechanics. Gibberish.


18 posted on 09/21/2009 7:28:16 AM PDT by Leisler (It's going to be a hard, long winter)
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Yep. It’s clear that in both parties there’s this mindset that what’s good for the big banks is good for America—to the point that they’ll spend trillions we don’t even have.

Destroy the currency, and many of us will just move to growing what we can at home and bartering for the rest.


19 posted on 09/21/2009 7:33:23 AM PDT by Claud
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Thousands of years of advice on the virtues of saving gone to crap.


20 posted on 09/21/2009 7:37:46 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Obama, you stop lying; we'll stop callin' you a LIAR.)
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