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Originally posted by st3ve_o
but i don't get why or how?
as far as i'm aware britain's main trade and industries have always been:-
. coal (dying business)
. steel (dying business)
so why is our economy booming?
Coal and steel (i.e. commodity production) may have been big employers in the past, but they were never the staples of the british economy.. manufacturing was.
Originally posted by Mr Jihad
Were also the largest arms dealers in the world, that probably helps.
The Bank of England deliberately stoked the consumer boom that has led to record house prices and personal debt in order to avert a recession, the former Bank Governor Eddie George admitted yesterday.
Lord George said he and his colleagues on the Monetary Policy Committee " did not have much of a choice" as they battled to prevent the UK being dragged into a worldwide economic slump by slashing interest rates. And he said his legacy to the current MPC was to "sort out" the problems he had caused.
Lord George, who headed the Bank for a decade from 1993, revealed to MPs on the Treasury Select Committee that he knew the approach was not sustainable. "In the environment of global economic weakness at the beginning of this decade... external demand was declining and related to that, business investment was declining," he said. "We only had two alternative ways of sustaining demand and keeping the economy moving forward - one was public spending and the other was consumption.