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...Dixon first moved to New York at the age of 18, intending to study fashion merchandising....
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...Lena Komileva, G+ Economics: The uptrend in UK house prices is largely a secular trend....
...Lena Komileva, G+ Economics: In short, no....
...Peter Dixon, Commerzbank: We are “due” a period of more sustained growth so I reckon over the next few years UK output is likely to continue growing at rates of 2%-plus....
...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....
...Peter Dixon, Commerzbank: People ought to worry very much about “Brixit” as it is a critical issue, the consequences of which need to be thought through very carefully....
...Lena Komileva, G+ Economics: In a balance sheet crisis, conventional considerations of the economic cycle have proven misleading....
...Peter Dixon, Commerzbank: Will it? Don’t know. Should it? It depends on what the current mandate is replaced with....
...Lena Komileva, G+ Economics: With the Autumn Statement, George Osborne has effectively abandoned plan A without putting the government’s commitment to its objectives in doubt....
...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....
...Peter Dixon, Commerzbank No....
...Peter Dixon, Commerzbank Emerging markets tend to benefit from strength in the industrial world rather than vice versa – particularly commodity producers....
...Peter Dixon, Commerzbank I suspect the UK recovery will be slow at first but gather some pace as we head towards late 2010....
...Peter Dixon, Commerzbank Winner: The Asian economies, which have escaped the worst of the banking sector problems....
...Lena Komileva, Tullet Prebon Public debt sustainability is an essential condition for economic stability and it is imperative the governments adopt a robust risk management approach....
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...Peter Dixon, Commerzbank There is a popular view in parts of Europe that the UK’s growth over the past decade was debt fuelled, that the economic debate was focused only on house prices and that the economy...
...Lena Komileva, Tullet Prebon The main risks to the UK economy are another housing bubble, sticky inflation and lack of adequate fiscal reforms....
...Peter Dixon, Commerzbank Next year will be at least as bad as this year for the property market....
...Lena Komileva, Tullet Prebon If the major costs of this crisis are so far clustered on the ”discretionary” side of the economy’s balance sheet, the risk is that a prolonged period of a widening output gap...
...Peter Dixon, Commerzbank Fiscal profligacy less represents prudence than the last shot in the locker....
...Lena Komileva, Tullet Prebon There is a distinct possibility that the rapid disinflation that is in store for the next year will mutate into deflation....
...Lena Komileva, Tullet Prebon Protectionism is one of the biggest risk to the global economy in 2009....
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