Showing posts with label Bank of England. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 10, 2008

HOW THE CITY OF LONDON CREATED THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Source: The people's voice.org

  • "BRITISH FINANCIAL WARFARE: 1929; 1931- 33

On Sunday, September 20, 1931, the British government issued its statements announcing its decision to "suspend for the time being" the clause of the Gold Standard Act of 1925 requiring the Bank of England to sell gold at the fixed price. All the other elements of the official British mythology were also present. "His Majesty's Government have no reason to believe that the present difficulties are due to any substantial extent to the export of capital by British nationals. Undoubtedly the bulk of withdrawals has been for foreign accounts." The bloody wogs, as we see, were once again the root of the problem..."

  • "Elle avait...deux instruments: le taux d'escompte et la politique dite d''open market'....Depuis 1929 la Banque d'Angleterre a constamment utilisé ces deux instruments pour maintenir aussi bas que possible les taux en vigeur sur le marché de Londres. Elle a toujours retardé aux maximum les élévations de taux d'escompte qui s'imposaient, cependant qu'elle cherchait à augmenter, par ses achats de valuers d'Etat, l'abondance monétaire du marche." [Jacques Rueff, De L'Aube au Crépuscule, p. 301] 

  • "on peut affirmer notamment qu'en 1929 et 1930, presque sans exception, la politique d''open market' de la Banque d'Angleterre a été faite à contresens. Les mouvements d'or, en effet, tendent à se corriger eux-mêmes, puisque toute sortie de métal tend à provoquer une restriction de crédit, qui hausse les taux du marche. Or, en 1929 et 1930, toutes les fois que de l'or sortait de la Banque d'Angleterre, celle-ci achetait des valeurs d'Etat sur le marché, remplacant ainsi les disponibilites qui venaient de disparaitre." [302]

  • "Autrement dit, pendant les deux années 1929- 1930, la Banque d'Angleterre a constamment paralysé le jeu des phénomenes qui tendaient à adapter la balance des paiements anglais aux nécessites résultant de la politique économique suivie par le pays." [p. 303]


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Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Sterling at record low vs euro as M&S adds to gloom

Source: Reuters UK
Date: 09/01/08

"Sterling slid to a fresh all-time low against the euro and a nine-month trough versus the dollar on Wednesday as a weak earnings report from a major UK retailer fanned expectations of an interest rate cut as soon as Thursday."


"This added to a sense that problems in the credit market and inflation are starting to constrain the UK economy, adding pressure to the Bank of England to cut interest rates".
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Monday, December 3, 2007

It's too late to stop the housing crash


03.12.2007

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The Bank of England is set to decide on interest rates this Thursday.

It should be one of the most lively meetings they’ve had recently. Governor Mervyn King is clearly still trying to fight the good fight against inflation. And with oil prices still near $100 a barrel, who can blame him?

But others are getting edgy. David Blanchflower wants a cut (as always), but so does Sir John Gieve. As Liam Halligan said in this weekend’s Telegraph, there’s a strong possibility that the governor might be outvoted, and we’ll see a December cut.

Not that it’ll make any difference to the housing market…

At the weekend, the Express, ever the master of understatement, ran the headline “100 days to halt housing crash”. Ray Boulger of mortgage broker John Charcol warns that if the bank doesn’t start cutting rates by February, “any small early-year blip could spiral into a full-blown property crash...”


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