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This is how socialism works folks. Get smart America, excessive entitlements and massive, bloated government never ends well. Canada will be in this horrible place soon you can be sure.
I'm sure this will be covered extensively as a reminder to the poor sap taxpayers everywhere...
Half a trillion pounds disappear from Britain’s coffers in stunning writedown that equals a quarter of nation’s GDP
Global banks and international bond strategists have been left stunned by revised ONS figures showing that Britain is 490 billion pounds poorer than assumed and no longer has any reserve of net foreign assets, depriving the country of its safety margin as Brexit talks reach a crucial juncture.
A massive write-down in the UK balance of payments data shows that Britain’s stock of wealth – the net international investment position – has collapsed from a surplus of 469 billion pounds to a net deficit of 22 billion pounds. This transforms the outlook for sterling and the gilts markets. “Half a trillion pounds has gone missing. This is equivalent to 25 per cent of GDP,” said Mark Capleton, UK rates strategist at Bank of America.
Making matters worse, foreign direct investment (FDI) by companies is plummeting. It fell from a 120 billion pounds surplus in the first half 2016 to a 25 billion pounds deficit over the same period of this year. The apparent resilience of FDI flows shortly after Brexit was an illusion: the spending that took place in late 2016 had already been committed earlier. The big devaluation since late 2015 automatically improved the UK’s net asset profile enormously but clearly not enough. The supposed surplus has gone up in smoke. It implies that the UK’s underlying position going into the referendum was much weaker than anybody realized. The concern is that the external forces supporting sterling and gilts are all in doubt as major central banks tighten policy and drain global liquidity.
The Bank of New York Mellon, the world’s biggest custodial institution with US$31 trillion under purview, says its flow data shows a marked deterioration over recent weeks in purchases of sterling assets by “real money” players such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds. “The outflows from the UK began in mid-August,” said Simon Derrick, the bank’s currency strategist, “the big buyers are disappearing.”
I'm sure this will be covered extensively as a reminder to the poor sap taxpayers everywhere...
Half a trillion pounds disappear from Britain’s coffers in stunning writedown that equals a quarter of nation’s GDP
Global banks and international bond strategists have been left stunned by revised ONS figures showing that Britain is 490 billion pounds poorer than assumed and no longer has any reserve of net foreign assets, depriving the country of its safety margin as Brexit talks reach a crucial juncture.
A massive write-down in the UK balance of payments data shows that Britain’s stock of wealth – the net international investment position – has collapsed from a surplus of 469 billion pounds to a net deficit of 22 billion pounds. This transforms the outlook for sterling and the gilts markets. “Half a trillion pounds has gone missing. This is equivalent to 25 per cent of GDP,” said Mark Capleton, UK rates strategist at Bank of America.
Making matters worse, foreign direct investment (FDI) by companies is plummeting. It fell from a 120 billion pounds surplus in the first half 2016 to a 25 billion pounds deficit over the same period of this year. The apparent resilience of FDI flows shortly after Brexit was an illusion: the spending that took place in late 2016 had already been committed earlier. The big devaluation since late 2015 automatically improved the UK’s net asset profile enormously but clearly not enough. The supposed surplus has gone up in smoke. It implies that the UK’s underlying position going into the referendum was much weaker than anybody realized. The concern is that the external forces supporting sterling and gilts are all in doubt as major central banks tighten policy and drain global liquidity.
The Bank of New York Mellon, the world’s biggest custodial institution with US$31 trillion under purview, says its flow data shows a marked deterioration over recent weeks in purchases of sterling assets by “real money” players such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds. “The outflows from the UK began in mid-August,” said Simon Derrick, the bank’s currency strategist, “the big buyers are disappearing.”
