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Look forward to revisiting this in due course... lol

I endured agile project management - or rather "Agile" once in my life... I stormed off the job largely because the agile project manager was incredibly rude and disrespectful... and far from agile (I don't think they knew what agile was beyond some sort of distorted management consultancy scam).

It is a shockingly middle class sector... they really don't get much of it... the very class that used to laugh at hippies and their eco concerns as recently as the 90s... now there's money to be made, the posh boys and the conmen too (in part) have moved in and muscled the real greenies out of the way.

Thanks... working in that banking world again... and bankers (and their economist pals) are not terribly good at what they do, sadly... this decision will come back to haunt the MPC/BoE.

Yes, warning signs in the data... problems will be seen before year end, sadly... the Bank of England MPC is wrong once again.

The data I work with suggests the opposite, and that inflation problems will build between now and year end... the Bank of England MPC seems to lack the ability to look forward, though - simply not terribly good.

It isn't.

BTL is far less attractive because of tax changes, which in part has led to surging rental prices... you need to examine the full picture.

Wind is actually means relatively expensive energy due to requirement for backup and infrastructure, as they've found in Germany. It ain't great on many levels (also far fewer job and lower taxes too in the round than what is has replaced - that bit isn't spoken about much because people don't do the basic analysis... or don't want to).

It will inevitably be a hold... followed by problems and a rise at the following meeting. There are problems coming through right now re: inflation... but the MPC always seems to be behind the curve, sadly.

They should've gone harder and quicker at the start... as it is, whenever they looking like coming to a halt the media goes berserk and speculates about impending rate cuts, etc., which defeats the objective further still.

Lots of chatter about this so thought I'd chuck in my own prediction. Hold this month... rise at following meeting... plenty of signs of sticky inflation, and I suspect we shall see signs of worse than sticky by year end. Been analysing data for the last two weeks for a new employer. This is my conclusion. Sadly, I can't share the data. Edit... just spotted this re: the USA. https://www.ft.com/content/c78cdd68-8dc5-4638-a99b-c07cd417cf9a

This is what I'm seeing in many regions, too... around 15-25% off peak... the valuers seem to be behind the curve so there's a slower shift downwards when it comes to asking prices... heaven knows what planet some of the valuers are living on.

They haven't - it's been a bloody disaster. NATO's focus on tanks as the gamechanger has failed... Ukraine is now relying more on ground troops. Pressure is being applied for a reset... https://www.ft.com/content/0560e2fc-d9a9-417c-b5e3-bc279dfb2bb6 They've just decided to replace their defence minister... but they've "over performed"...um... laughable. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-zelenskiy-moves-replace-wartime-defence-minister-2023-09-03/

The Tory party had a strong neoliberal streak - the opposite of the core meaning of liberalism, in economic terms. Neoliberalism is heavily reliant on government interventionism... and if anything the government has doubled down on that... the new interventionism and so on. I sense we're in very dangerous territory, right now...