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Jackmanandboy said:Behind the political narrative what really cost us was pension funds using swaps to bet on Gilts. Another miss selling scandal that has been largely buried by the media that we will all pay for. Truss disturbed the market but the market was already hamstrung by the vast amount of pension liabilities covered by swaps. When prices dropped pension funds had to sell to maintain liquidity driving prices down further and further.
Best_loser said:Poor kwasi , Eton , Cambridge then a career at a bank and hedge fund in the city , how was he supposed to know all that
MajorR said:It’s outrageous, she messes it up, country and it’s people are getting hammered and there’s barely a mention of it in most papers.
George Eustace also lays in to her for the Australia trade deal which is not in our interests. We’re being sold down the river!
https://www.just-food.com/news/australia-free-trade-deal-not-good-for-uk-says-former-minister-eustice/
https://news.sky.com/story/george-eustice-brands-australia-free-trade-deal-a-failure-in-brutal-swipe-at-liz-truss-12747723
Jackmanandboy said:A number of pension fund managers had been blowing the whistle the pensions regulator chose to ignore the warnings, heads should have rolled at the regulator, but we just carry on waiting for the next miss selling scandal to hit our pockets.
KrunchyKarrot said:I would like to add it is the Public Pension fund managers situated in the big building next to the BoE. What Truss tried to do might have been the correct way according to most economists, but the implementation was abysmal to say the least.
Jackmanandboy said:A number of pension fund managers had been blowing the whistle the pensions regulator chose to ignore the warnings, heads should have rolled at the regulator, but we just carry on waiting for the next miss selling scandal to hit our pockets.
monmouth said:It's not the right way according to any economists beyond the ridiculously brain dead Minford is it?
Has nothing to do with implementation although that was at typical Truss fayre.
KrunchyKarrot said:No there was and is support for a growth budget, im not saying it is correct as its above my pay grade and only time would judge.
So you know all the money we used to send to Europe, where the hell has all that gone to.Best_loser said:No chance of growing the economy out of this mess it might work for some countries who don't have a huge government debt are energy independant and have a manufacturing industry , that's not the UK , tax rises are the only option , everybody is going to have to get used to being worse off
MajorR said:It’s outrageous, she messes it up, country and it’s people are getting hammered and there’s barely a mention of it in most papers.
George Eustace also lays in to her for the Australia trade deal which is not in our interests. We’re being sold down the river!
https://www.just-food.com/news/australia-free-trade-deal-not-good-for-uk-says-former-minister-eustice/
https://news.sky.com/story/george-eustice-brands-australia-free-trade-deal-a-failure-in-brutal-swipe-at-liz-truss-12747723
Glyn1 said:George Eustace was one of the biggest Brexit supporters of them all. He promised us a land of milk and honey. A trade deal with the US, lots of employment when the foreigners left etc etc. He needs to find someone to deflect the blame. I wouldn't trust a single thing that he says.