Comments on: Economics for 7 Year Olds

By: Look Left – The Week in Fast Forward | Left Foot Forward

Look Left – The Week in Fast Forward | Left Foot Forward — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:02:29 +0000

[...] bear trap and demolition job on our article about G20 countries still in recession, following this simple Venn diagram, so simple even a seven-year-old could do it! As for definitive evidence of [...]

By: easyleys

easyleys — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:43:30 +0000

Even Gordon Brown thinks Spain is in the G20 (See today’s PMQs) and Dave didn’t correct him

Guido for PM!!!

By: Max the Impaler

Max the Impaler — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:14:49 +0000

I rather like that.

By: Memory Man

Memory Man — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:42:14 +0000

We are proving that we were well placed to ride out the recession, by doing it for longer.

By: Memory Man

Memory Man — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:40:44 +0000

Screwing 60,000,000 people in 10 years is 16,500 per night.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:31:37 +0000

we can dream…

By: Rufus Stone

Rufus Stone — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:20:28 +0000

More probably a case of Boom & Bust at the same time.

By: Iip albanjary

Iip albanjary — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:22:02 +0000

what to UK?
is UK gov’t preparing something special or it have been slowed by another?

By: madasafish

madasafish — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:57:30 +0000

People kept and will keep voting for these fuckwits because Brown has built his own subservient constituency of millions of public workers….

erm, let me think, I could do the right thing and get rid of these dickheads or I could vote for them, keep my job and milk the productive sectors for a few more years until the country is completely fucked….

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.” Alexander Tytler

Not sure about the monarchy bit old chap, but I get your point…

By: Budgie

Budgie — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:13:49 +0000

Around 80% of UK economy is within our own borders, only 20% is export (10% EU, 10% rest of world). Most other EU countries have similar figures. That is why they are tabulated separately.