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Old 09-06-2010, 07:15   #37
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Re: Just before the robbing Tory budget

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Originally Posted by Stumped View Post
I'm certainly far worse off now than I ever was under previous conservative administrations. My servings are worth practically nothing
I suppose savers enjoyed interest rates which peaked at 15%, which it did under the Tories in the eighties, but it didn't do much for the economy, and which was the main reason Thatcherist governments were obsessed about lowering it.

They'd have loved inflation to be as low as it is today.

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