Por darle un toque más positivo a la anotación añado un par de observaciones. Primera, el crecimiento durante el trimestre (es decir entre el dato de diciembre y el de marzo) ha sido de 17.000 millones, la mitad que durante el mismo trimestre del año pasado. La segunda buena noticia es que la deuda a corto plazo ha caído de 86.000 millones en diciembre a menos de 85.00o millones.
Del colega de macroman:
ReplyDeleteSome of Brown's (léase UK) potential turds:
• Private Finance Initiatives (Brown's off-balance sheet accounting trick) - £139bn.
• The un-funded public sector pension liability (Broon's great Baby-boomer giveaway) - £1,104bn.
• Contingent liabilities - e.g. Network Rail (so privatisation didn't work after all, huh?) - £22bn.
• Financial sector interventions (Broon saving the world and Fred Goodwin's pension) - £130bn.
...which comes to a startling total of £1395bn + the official debt number (£890bn), a grand total of £2,285bn or 162% of GDP.
Perhaps it's a bit unfair to include the pension liability (which most Western countries have) or the financial sector interventions (which, provided RBS hasn't done its cods on European bonds as well as everything else, will probably post a profit one day), but the others are fair game. That comes to 96% of GDP and could potentially be announced as part of "opening up the books" and discovering Brown couldn't add up all.
Beware of Scotsmen bearing Red Briefcases...?