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The Premiership of Mary Elizabeth Truss.Sept 2022 - Oct 2022

If Droods article is correct and Trussonomics harks back to the 80’s, it should be The Isle of Wight on Thames.
 
With the amount of printy printy, it has to be Harare on Thames, although I’ve heard very drunk people in Henley on Thames pronounce it that way.
 
Some commentators are saying there may well have to be an emergency rate rise next week to shore up Sterling. House price crash here we come.

does anyone else think that Truss could be a lib dem secret agent with a mission to permanently destroy the Tory party?
 
My wife has just checked out of a US hotel for the week. Christ knows what the Amex exchange rate will be!!
 
Some commentators are saying there may well have to be an emergency rate rise next week to shore up Sterling. House price crash here we come.

does anyone else think that Truss could be a lib dem secret agent with a mission to permanently destroy the Tory party?

Can’t help but think that would only make matters worse and further undermine confidence. One thing is sure, if I were part way through the conveyancing on a house, I’d be reconsidering / revising my offer. Stamp duty cuts are a rounding error.
 
The sheer detachment from reality is mind boggling.

A Chancellor who laughed at the Queen's funeral and couldn't even observe the two-minute silence. Then crashed the pound. Yet in Daily Mail land it's an alternate reality...

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The “good things in today’s maxi-budget”

https://twitter.com/torstenbell/status/1573339153831526400?s=46&t=dy7YLIzK8fNbXXHj_gZdrw

Obviously I’m not defending the budget but it’s possible it’s awfulness is overstated. Is it awful? Looks like it to me. Is it uniquely, unprecedentedly awful? No. It’s a different type of Tory awfulness, that’s all. It includes some things to offset the awfulness, just like previous iterations did. They’re not getting much attention because the pundits are fixating on the loss of their preferred awfulness, but they may be enough to keep the Tory show on the road.
 
Good time to change my $ to £? Asked my FA this as she's called to give me the bad news about my retirement fund. Her reply 'I cannot discuss currency!' I have the worst mathematical brain and serious math anxiety (from repeated beatings in 70's by math teachers lol) so I never can get my head around exchange rates.

UK does look like its lovely people have facilitated a complete shambles and are pulling those who shouted loudest and longest down with them. I hope I don't have to come home anytime soon.

Also .... anyone wanna buy a house?
 
The sheer detachment from reality is mind boggling.

A Chancellor who laughed at the Queen's funeral and couldn't even observe the two-minute silence. Then crashed the pound. Yet in Daily Mail land it's an alternate reality...

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Apologies owed to Ponty- it is a real Tory budget right enough! ( at least according to the Tories’ bible). Re the bizarre behaviour of Kwarteng and come to think of it Johnson, Mogg, Mad Nad and the others- has anyone checked to make sure the FSB haven’t been pumping old stockpiles of KGB anaesthetic gas into the their offices?

That DM free offer is a bit of a swizz btw- the tacky cash-in, souvenir coin collection is only for new subscriptions. They’ll all be trying to pawn them in six months.
 
The dog dragged me into the local when walking past, what was I supposed to do?! Packed in there, as it is every night. Lots of Americans eating great food and drinking plenty, spending like sailors in a port and who can blame them. The landlord looked pretty happy.
yeah, sing it loud baby!


The sun will come out tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow
There'll be sun
Just thinkin' about
Tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs, and the sorrow
'Til there's none
When I'm stuck with a day
That's gray, and lonely
I just stick out my chin
And grin, and say, oh
The sun'll come outtomorrow
So ya gotta hang on'til tomorrow
Come what may
 
The “good things in today’s maxi-budget”

https://twitter.com/torstenbell/status/1573339153831526400?s=46&t=dy7YLIzK8fNbXXHj_gZdrw

Obviously I’m not defending the budget but it’s possible it’s awfulness is overstated. Is it awful? Looks like it to me. Is it uniquely, unprecedentedly awful? No. It’s a different type of Tory awfulness, that’s all. It includes some things to offset the awfulness, just like previous iterations did. They’re not getting much attention because the pundits are fixating on the loss of their preferred awfulness, but they may be enough to keep the Tory show on the road.

But the market reaction and the plunge in the pound in reaction to a budget (and a mini one, at that) is seemingly unprecedented. Experienced financial commentators saying they've never seen anything like it. A mini budget became a self-inflicted financial crisis.

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Apologies owed to Ponty- it is a real Tory budget right enough! ( at least according to the Tories’ bible). Re the bizarre behaviour of Kwarteng and come to think of it Johnson, Mogg, Mad Nad and the others- has anyone checked to make sure the FSB haven’t been pumping old stockpiles of KGB anaesthetic gas into the their offices?

That DM free offer is a bit of a swizz btw- the tacky cash-in, souvenir coin collection is only for new subscriptions. They’ll all be trying to pawn them in six months.
Wow, what an offer!
I bet a collection like that ends up really valuable and an heirloom, not a negected unsold marked down to a pound on a sagging trestle table at the end of the car boot...
 
But the market reaction and the plunge in the pound in reaction to a budget (and a mini one, at that) is seemingly unprecedented. Experienced financial commentators saying they've never seen anything like it. A mini budget became a self-inflicted financial crisis.

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Lots of people making out like bandits from Truss’ tax cuts will also have made out like bandits from shorting the pound. There are always opportunities, when one kind of awfulness makes way for another ( where *was* Ponty?) The question is what happens next. This *might* be the big one: one last orgy of asset stripping before they torch the place for the insurance and run for the escape pods. But I’ve been thinking that since 2010. Things just grind on, more shit, sometimes different kinds of shit, but grinding on. We’ll see.
 
I'm struggling with this "mini" Budget. I'm largely pro cutting taxes + smaller government, but millions of families and businesses desperately need help thanks to disastrous energy policy + lockdowns.

So why cut taxes for the rich - the only people who don't need the help?


Even gutter-tabloid gammoness Julia Hartley-Brewer has issues with this one (Twitter).
 
Does this to any degree show how markets would be likely to react if a government deployed MMT-style spending plans? I know that’s a common criticism of MMT, and, governments bring governments, any application would be likely to be half-arsed (the spending without the job guarantee side, most likely), so perhaps what we’re seeing here is the likely outcome of markets spooked by what would be perceived as unwise profligacy?
 


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