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The big truth is that when Britain entered the financial crisis – and one reason why she did so – was because as a nation the British were consuming more than they produced. We saved too little to sustain investment and consumption at the levels we enjoyed. So we borrowed too much as a result, in both the public sector (hence the structural budget deficit) and in the private sector. Hence the recession.
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So the economy does need to be “rebalanced”. The Question is how. We have a choice; a fiscal squeeze or a monetary squeeze. The government have chosen a fiscal squeeze and allowed the Bank of England to leave interest rates at historically low levels. If we now slowed the pace and allowed the deficit to continue it would mean higher interest rates. The markets would not tolerate such loosening of will power. We would not have “Greek style crisis” but we would have rather higher interest rates and perhaps an even weaker pound than we do today. But we would still be squeezed this time by higher mortgage bills and businesses finding it even harder to fund investments. It is a little like choosing between being run over by a lorry or a train.
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When the chancellor, then, claims that his policies are “restoring confidence” he is right so far as the financial markets are concerned. This is why the interest rates demanded by foreign investors to hold British government bonds are only a little higher than for Germany, regarded as the bench mark for safety. But it is also true that this confidence has been bought at the cost of much weaker confidence and sentiment among British businesses and consumers.
Conversely a monetary squeeze would hit the rich disproportionately,cheap pandora necklaces, especially in the south. That’s because they have expensive houses purchased with big mortgages and because that part of the country is not so dependent on public spending to sustain its economy. It the fullness of time a revival of manufacturing may benefit the traditional industrial heartlands of the nation but this has yet to be completed.