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The Carl Pilkington of Freddyshouse
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- Dec 22, 2003
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Regardless of the new liberal nihilist message of racists turning the UK into a pariah of the world.Its spin. Go and look at the OECD source data, looks great until you see the outflows are nearly as large. Then go and look at the UK category data and compare it to...well, anywhere else. The UK FDI is all share trades or banking deposits, and then go and look at the historic data and you realise this is just the stock market being the stock market; the UK's FDI shape is pretty much always like this. When you look at other countries' FDI it's in things and buildings and manufacturing, in the UK it's just volume of trades driven by volatility. So you can certainly take comfort that the stock market still works, but fuck all else.
We are still the point blank centre of Europe.
In every respect..in every measurement.