THE GENEROSITY OF SPRINGTIME

 by: MisS VictoriA DaviD

We have been deprived of the gloriousness of sunshine and even its hugging warmth was hindered to us, too. Instead, we were cloaked by a cold breeze which was hardened with an icy touch for weeks. It was doubtlessly the bullheaded extension of the winter period. Am I right my dear fellow U.K. residents and the disappointed transient travellers? 

When we already rolled out the red carpet for the month of Spring, we had hardly experienced a decent week of brilliant sunshine. Sighs in people's breath with a long face mood were in every place. In general, it was such a dismay for most of us apart from the fact that we also encountered the tenacious frigidness of “Beast from the East”. 

Most of us, human beings, tend to delve more into the negatives in life. What a pessimistic outlook which we should try not to entertain. Broadly speaking, a despondent mindset may not apply to you or to most of us, but the quagmire of being ungrateful and wanting more always lurk beneath us. Am I sanely right to conclude?

For the past days, there has been a sudden soar in temperature across the country. Hence, the efficient yet costly house heaters which provided us warmth were given an instant hiatus. On the other hand, locked away electric fans were dug out & cleaned, and idled air conditioners were dusted off & turned on. Moreover, windows have been wide opened supplying gentle fresh air and the humming tête-à-tête sound of birds, all throughout day and night. 

Prior to the sudden leap in temperature, we were forestalled to feel the beautiful excitement of basking under the soothing sunshine. Can you imagine that for the past weeks, we were still wearing our wintry clothes and shoes?

 

Despite the weather interruption, we were still grateful to have spotted thriving colourful blooms of yellow, pink and mauve. We were also astonished by the developing foliage of strong trees in parks and on the verges of the road. In particular, the mesmerising Magnolias in full showy tulip like flower. Consequently, it made most of us steadily buoyant with inclined confidence to welcoming the much anticipated generosity of the season of Spring.

YEAR 2010: ECONOMY'S DIRECTION

by: MisS VictoriA DaviD

People, mainly buyers and sellers, seem to think that today or at the moment the situation of the economy is doing well, perhaps there's no direction!

Some people think the economy is doing well, mainly those people who think it goes up. A few days ago there was a news about Chinese exports and normally when you hear this type of news and when you get people analyse it you will find that the export were something like not proper goods but something else. Such as electronics stuff or components.

So far, what people are watching when comparing the 'book' is either the Chinese economy will go down or up.

A lot of people cannot see how the Chinese economy will continue growing if everyone itself is no longer buying like America, Europe, United Kingdom or the biggest market. Most of their sales are sold to those countries that reached up to 75% or 80%.

Today, all those countries are in absolute distress, so, how can their market continue growing? There are two ways they can adapt either to export more goods to the far east in which the far east has no big middle class consumers' society or its own people could be buying more goods.

The only way its own people could buy more goods would be if the Chinese government is prepared to give their people more money which would mean increasing the value of their currency. If they increase the value of their currency the prices of their goods will go up, thus, people will buy less offers so they are in catch 22; the buying dilemma!

So, on one hand a lot of people especially fund managers want to put their money into shares, earn dividend and see growth. But the more realist people are, they can see that most growth so far comes from government spending. Those from China, Europe and America, their government just about spend much they can afford to and if they keep printing money, the bond market will stop lending them money. That was happened in Greece as I said before!

So, at the moment the stock market has come to a shaky balance between buyers and sellers because there is no direction. This is because of the export growth in China that people will think and see as a sign that the world economy is picking up. Probably, this is a growth from the very lower, much lower!

The beginning of this year there was growth after a huge down-turn and most of that growth are people, factories, countries etc. that were so frightened in that banking crisis last 2008 and 2009.

A lot of 'people' recommended replenishing inventory, which is re-stopping. It is interpreted as an up-turn in the world economy but it is not really an up-turn but a job less recovery. This is nearly when people adding put-off through fear that is why the government had the cash for clankers which brings purchasing forward and gives the illusion of growth.