Hints and tips:
...Melanie Baker: Inflation is likely to peak in April 2022 in the UK and be substantially lower by the end of the year which will make the Bank of England appear more in control of inflation....
...In a sense, Gold and Baker shaped each other’s work....
...She seemed to have asbestos hands and never used a cushion like other bakers to slap the dough against the walls of the oven....
...But its current roster includes Girls, Lena Dunham’s frank twenty-something comedy, Silicon Valley, Mike Judge’s satire about life in the tech bubble, and Veep, Armando Iannucci’s Washington comedy starring...
...Lena Komileva, G+ Economics: The uptrend in UK house prices is largely a secular trend....
...Lena Komileva, G+ Economics: In short, no....
...Melanie Baker, Morgan Stanley: We’re assuming that the recovery is here to stay, but we’d like to see a bit more investment spending and a pick up in pay growth to make us more confident....
...Lena Komileva, G+ Economics: At current household debt levels, the recovery is only sustainable as long as interest rates remain low....
...Lena Komileva, G+ Economics: From a financial economics standpoint, house prices are not too high....
...Melanie Baker, Morgan Stanley: I worry less about the prospect of not being in the EU than I do about the process of leaving....
...Melanie Baker, Morgan Stanley: The UK won’t see a sustained economic recovery in 2013 ....
...Melanie Baker, Morgan Stanley: George Osborne will and should be able to keep “Plan A” in operation....
...Lena Komileva, G+ Economics: It is unrealistic and possibly fallacious that the UK economy needs a new super-leverage cycle to generate a sustained recovery....
...Melanie Baker, Morgan Stanley: We are not assuming any change in the Bank of England monetary policy remit next year....
...Nat King Cole, Lena Horne and Sammy, they all had to eat in the casino kitchens when they played Vegas. The first time I went to Vegas was with Basie’s band....
...Lena Komileva, Tullet Prebon Property prices are overvalued by any measure....
...Melanie Baker, Morgan Stanley From our Global Forecast Snapshots publication (Joachim Fels, lead author): “We forecast 4% global GDP growth in 2010, but this masks two very different stories....
...Lena Komileva, Tullet Prebon Statistically a recovery from a very low base can produce above-normal rates of GDP growth for some time....
...Melanie Baker, Morgan Stanley We think that serious budget consolidation should start in 2011, where the recovery in 2010 will still be rather shaky....
...Melanie Baker, Morgan Stanley People should prepare for a bumpy, sluggish recovery....
...Melanie Baker, Morgan Stanley I don’t think it was an illusion, but low volatility in growth and inflation meant that the ground for a crisis was fertile....
...all are trying to maintain a connection to the past – people who traditionally buy their products – while appealing to the present – attracting new clients – but without being too extreme,” says Fiona Baker...
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