Wednesday 10 December 2008

Demons

The Times is reporting that offering £60 at the airport to be changed into euros, their reporter was told. "if you give me another 65 pence I can give you 60 euros."

It would be nice if we stop at parity but perhaps we will just wave as it flashes by on our way to hyper-inflation and demonetisation.

5 comments:

Bill Quango MP said...

Thats a bad rate. But average tourist rate today is 1.07.
Quite how the devaluation of the currency, far beyond what the last Labour government achieved, has not really been reported is a mystery.
Well not a mystery as we all know why, but a concern at least.

What will the rescuer of the world use as example of low inflation / low price Britain when Plasmas start rising in price next summer?

Cheddar? Celtic iron earrings?

Old BE said...

I don't think the Beeb et al are worried, but people are.

hatfield girl said...

This suggests, BQ, that the economy is so desensitized to the exchange rate that it will require a massive devaluation (shades of Russia 1998) before manufacturing production and export, end therefore employment can be revived by a devaluation.

Resuscitation is mouth to mouth, not a swift kick. Manufacturing industry in the UK is catatonic.

Anonymous said...

This is a timely reminder that parity may have some psychological quality of stability, but devaluation can go on and on and on, well past parity. And it's all virtual, no way we can see a real anchor to stop the process.

The relevant question is: is there a general self-supporting panic, or do some people know something we do not know yet?

hatfield girl said...

Do you think Mervyn King is sitting in his room trying to hold the line, while George Soros is sitting in his, doing it again?