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UK GDP nominal growth 1948-2010

post-mortem of a 2008 bank run

More UK housing support - "FirstBuy"

Why holding physical cash is (soon to be) a crime

Professional and amateur market abuse

Q1 employment figures UK

UK trade balance 1946-2010

Huge new oil find

ECB is highly leveraged

How much tax do we pay in total?

"If we want economic growth, we must build more houses"

Bank exposure to negative equity

Further UK housing market support

Interest only mortgages increase

Unsecured lending rates - supernormal bank margins

Mortgage rates

Negative real interest rates - Bill Gross

UK residential housing sale volumes -Apr 2011

UK investment - "venture" capital

UK bonds downgraded, debt up

Banks will be allowed to fail

Japan in recession

Private investment in equities Apr 2011

Two-income households

UK debt increases exponentially

Government borrowing

UK government annual overspend since the last world war

UK input inflation

High street contraction

UK private savings down - again

US residential property - 5 warnings for the UK market

High street spending contracts

ftse 100 close - 6070

Central banks create $5,000,000,000,000 new dollars in 3 years

global economy

GDP Q1 2011

mortgage demand

House prices - a few unanswered questions

£5 first class stamp?

UK housing supply - new build

UK mortgage numbers 1970-2010

India inflation 8.9%

Arrears

Fiat money devaluation

Stagflation

C19 perspective on banking

Mortgage arrears

UK negative equity estimates

Negative equity mortgages

Mortgage lending

Halifax interest-only mortgage lending