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CLIP
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Overview
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The CLIP model was proposed in `Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision
<https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00020>`__ by Alec Radford, Jong Wook Kim, Chris Hallacy, Aditya Ramesh, Gabriel Goh,
Sandhini Agarwal, Girish Sastry, Amanda Askell, Pamela Mishkin, Jack Clark, Gretchen Krueger, Ilya Sutskever. CLIP
(Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) is a neural network trained on a variety of (image, text) pairs. It can be
instructed in natural language to predict the most relevant text snippet, given an image, without directly optimizing
for the task, similarly to the zero-shot capabilities of GPT-2 and 3.

The abstract from the paper is the following:

*State-of-the-art computer vision systems are trained to predict a fixed set of predetermined object categories. This
restricted form of supervision limits their generality and usability since additional labeled data is needed to specify
any other visual concept. Learning directly from raw text about images is a promising alternative which leverages a
much broader source of supervision. We demonstrate that the simple pre-training task of predicting which caption goes
with which image is an efficient and scalable way to learn SOTA image representations from scratch on a dataset of 400
million (image, text) pairs collected from the internet. After pre-training, natural language is used to reference
learned visual concepts (or describe new ones) enabling zero-shot transfer of the model to downstream tasks. We study
the performance of this approach by benchmarking on over 30 different existing computer vision datasets, spanning tasks
such as OCR, action recognition in videos, geo-localization, and many types of fine-grained object classification. The
model transfers non-trivially to most tasks and is often competitive with a fully supervised baseline without the need
for any dataset specific training. For instance, we match the accuracy of the original ResNet-50 on ImageNet zero-shot
without needing to use any of the 1.28 million training examples it was trained on. We release our code and pre-trained
model weights at this https URL.*

Usage
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CLIP is a multi-modal vision and language model. It can be used for image-text similarity and for zero-shot image
classification. CLIP uses a ViT like transformer to get visual features and a causal language model to get the text
features. Both the text and visual features are then projected to a latent space with identical dimension. The dot
product between the projected image and text features is then used as a similar score.

To feed images to the Transformer encoder, each image is split into a sequence of fixed-size non-overlapping patches,
which are then linearly embedded. A [CLS] token is added to serve as representation of an entire image. The authors
also add absolute position embeddings, and feed the resulting sequence of vectors to a standard Transformer encoder.
The :class:`~transformers.CLIPFeatureExtractor` can be used to resize (or rescale) and normalize images for the model.

The :class:`~transformers.CLIPTokenizer` is used to encode the text. The :class:`~transformers.CLIPProcessor` wraps
:class:`~transformers.CLIPFeatureExtractor` and :class:`~transformers.CLIPTokenizer` into a single instance to both
encode the text and prepare the images. The following example shows how to get the image-text similarity scores using
:class:`~transformers.CLIPProcessor` and :class:`~transformers.CLIPModel`.

.. code-block::

        >>> import torch
        >>> from PIL import Image
        >>> import requests

        >>> from transformers import CLIPProcessor, CLIPModel

        >>> model = CLIPModel.from_pretrained("openai/clip-vit-base-patch32")
        >>> processor = CLIPProcessor.from_pretrained("openai/clip-vit-base-patch32")

        >>> url = "http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg"
        >>> image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)

        >>> inputs = processor(text=["a photo of a cat", "a photo of a dog"], images=image, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)

        >>> outputs = model(**inputs)
        >>> logits_per_image = outputs.logits_per_image # this is the image-text similarity score
        >>> probs = logits_per_image.softmax(dim=1) # we can take the softmax to get the label probabilities

This model was contributed by `valhalla <https://huggingface.co/valhalla>`__. The original code can be found `here
<https://github.com/openai/CLIP>`__.

CLIPConfig
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.. autoclass:: transformers.CLIPConfig
    :members: from_text_vision_configs

CLIPTextConfig
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.. autoclass:: transformers.CLIPTextConfig
    :members:

CLIPVisionConfig
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.. autoclass:: transformers.CLIPVisionConfig
    :members:

CLIPTokenizer
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.. autoclass:: transformers.CLIPTokenizer
    :members: build_inputs_with_special_tokens, get_special_tokens_mask,
        create_token_type_ids_from_sequences, save_vocabulary

CLIPTokenizerFast
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.. autoclass:: transformers.CLIPTokenizerFast
    :members:

CLIPFeatureExtractor
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.. autoclass:: transformers.CLIPFeatureExtractor
    :members:

CLIPProcessor
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.. autoclass:: transformers.CLIPProcessor
    :members:

CLIPModel
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.. autoclass:: transformers.CLIPModel
    :members: forward, get_text_features, get_image_features

CLIPTextModel
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.. autoclass:: transformers.CLIPTextModel
    :members: forward

CLIPVisionModel
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.. autoclass:: transformers.CLIPVisionModel
    :members: forward


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By Terence Shin, Data Scientist | MSc Analytics & MBA student
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For the longest time, I was quite against using R for no other reason other than the fact that it wasn't Python.
But after playing around with R for the past few months, I realized that R outclasses Python in several use cases, particularly for statistical analyses. As well, R has some powerful packages that were built by the world's biggest tech companies, and they aren't in Python!
And so, in this article, I wanted to go over three R packages that I highly recommend that you take the time to learn and equip in your arsenal of tools because they are seriously powerful tools.
Without further ado, here are three R packages that every data scientist should know, EVEN IF YOU ONLY USE PYTHON:
Causal Impact w/ Google
Robyn w/ Facebook
Anomaly Detection w/ Twitter
1. Causal Impact (Google)
Let's say your company launched a new TV ad for the Super Bowl and they wanted to see how it impacted conversions. Causal impact analysis attempts to predict what would have happened if the campaign never occurred — this is called the counterfactual.
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To give an actual example of what Causal impact does, it attempts to predict the counterfactual, i.e. the blue dotted line in the top graph, and then it compares the actual values to the counterfactual to estimate the delta.
Causal impact is super useful for marketing initiatives, expanding to new regions, testing new product features, and more!
2. Robyn (Facebook)
Marketing Mix Modelling is a modern technique used to estimate the impact of several marketing channels or campaigns on a target variable, like conversions or sales.
Marketing Mix Models (MMMs) are extremely popular, more than attribution models, because they allow you to measure the impact of immeasurable channels like TV, billboards, and radio.
Typically, Marketing Mix Models take months to build from scratch. But Facebook created a new R package, called Robyn, that can create a robust MMM in minutes.
Not only can you assess the effectiveness of each marketing channel with Robyn, but you can also optimize your marketing budget with it too!
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A subset of general anomaly detection is anomaly detection in time-series data, which is a unique problem because you have to consider the trend and seasonality of the data as well.
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Species
, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:

Gelanor altithorax Keyserling, 1893 – Brazil, Argentina
Gelanor consequus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 – Mexico, Costa Rica to Bolivia
Gelanor fortuna Benavides & Hormiga, 2016 – Panama
Gelanor innominatus Chamberlin, 1916 – Peru
Gelanor juruti Benavides & Hormiga, 2016 – Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil
Gelanor latus (Keyserling, 1881) – Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua to Bolivia
Gelanor moyobamba Benavides & Hormiga, 2016 – Peru
Gelanor muliebris Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan
Gelanor siquirres Benavides & Hormiga, 2016 – Costa Rica
Gelanor waorani Benavides & Hormiga, 2016 – Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil
Gelanor zonatus (C. L. Koch, 1845) (type species) – Mexico to Uruguay

References

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WHO Won't Declare Global Emergency Yet Over Coronavirus Outbreak
By CodeBlue | 24 January 2020
The proportion of deaths in reported coronavirus cases is 4%, says WHO.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of World Health Organization (WHO), speaks at the high-level meeting on Universal Health Coverage on September 23 2019 at the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, the US. The theme of the meeting is "Universal Health Coverage: Moving Together to Build a Healthier World". Picture by the United Nations.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 24 — The World Health Organization (WHO) has declined to classify a new respiratory virus outbreak, which spread from China to multiple countries, as a global health emergency.
The United Nations health agency said its Emergency Committee meeting yesterday found the proportion of deaths in currently reported cases at 4 per cent (17 of 557), besides also finding evidence of human-to-human transmission of the deadly novel coronavirus, known provisionally as 2019-nCoV, related to SARS.
The WHO Emergency Committee noted that a quarter of confirmed cases are reported to be severe, the source of the virus is still unknown, though it's likely to originate from animals, and the extent of human-to-human transmission is still unclear. The coronavirus has also spread in one health care facility.
"Make no mistake. This is an emergency in China, but it has not yet become a global health emergency. It may yet become one," WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement yesterday.
The WHO also reported fourth-generation cases in Wuhan and second-generation cases outside Wuhan. Four generations of spread of the coronavirus means that a person who contracted the virus from a non-human source, probably an animal, has infected a person, who infected someone else, who then infected another person. This, reported STATNews, has alarmed experts.
The WHO estimated the reproductive rate of 2019-nCoV at between 1.4 to 2.5, which refers to the number of people each infected person infects. According to STATNews, the reproduction number must be brought to below one to stop an outbreak.
China has placed Wuhan, Huanggang, and Ezhou — cities with 20 million people total — under quarantine, after the new and possibly fatal respiratory virus originating from Wuhan killed 25 people, all in China, and infected over 800 people globally, as of this morning.
Cases of 2019-nCoV, which has links to SARS, have been reported in Singapore, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Macau and Hong Kong, with potential cases being investigated in Mexico, the Philippines, and Australia.
Malaysia has not reported any cases, although four suspected people tested negative for the virus.
The WHO's risk assessment is that the outbreak is a very high risk in China, and a high risk regionally and globally, Tedros said, adding that the virus can cause severe disease as well as kill, although it causes milder symptoms for most people.
"We know that among those infected, one quarter of patients have experienced severe disease. We know that most of those who have died had underlying health conditions such as hypertension, diabetes or cardiovascular disease that weakened their immune systems.
"We know that there is human-to-human transmission in China, but for now it appears limited to family groups and health workers caring for infected patients," he added.
But while there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission outside China, that doesn't mean it won't happen, he clarified.
Despite this, the WHO still does not know the source of the virus nor understand how easily it spreads, its clinical features or severity, but the public health agency is working "night and day" with its partners in China and other affected countries.
Tedros also clarified that the call not to declare an emergency over the crisis should not be interpreted to mean that the WHO does not find the situation serious or that it is not taking the issue seriously.
"Nothing could be further from the truth," he said. "WHO is following this outbreak every minute of every day, at country, regional and global level. We are working to prevent human-to-human transmission."
The declaration of a "public health emergency of international concern" is reserved for unusual and serious public health events that have the potential to spread diseases globally, such as the H1N1 outbreak of 2009.
China, Tedros said, has taken measures it believes appropriate to contain the spread of coronavirus in Wuhan and other cities, and the WHO hopes that they will be both effective and short in their duration.
For the moment, the WHO does not recommend any broader restrictions on travel or trade. It does, however, recommend exit screening at airports as part of a comprehensive set of containment measures.
"All countries should have in place measures to detect cases of coronavirus, including at health facilities," he added, and said simple things such as washing your hands and covering your mouth and nose when you sneeze can protect people.
The WHO believes that the Wuhan coronavirus could be caused by a newly emerging member of the family of viruses that caused the deadly SARS outbreak that infected over 8,000 people and killed almost 800 in 2002/03 worldwide.
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These dudes from Qatar contacted me knowing I'm into Arabia vybz and although they are from the Middle East, there's not a hint of an Arabian sound in this track but nevertheless, I like it a lot.
It's like a Military Ska Track, very reminiscent of our Bavarian Brothers, Schlachthofbronx. Great fun track.


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How The CIA Uses Social Media to Track How People Feel
By Jared Keller
In a nondescript building in Virginia, analysts are tracking millions of tweets, blog posts, and Facebook updates from around the world
How stable is China? What are people discussing and thinking in Pakistan? To answer these sorts of question, the U.S. government has turned to a rich source: social media.
The Associated Press reports that the CIA maintains a social-media tracking center operated out of an nondescript building in a Virginia industrial park. The intelligence analysts at the agency's Open Source Center, who other agents refer to as "vengeful librarians," are tasked with sifting through millions of tweets, Facebook messages, online chat logs, and other public data on the World Wide Web to glean insights into the collective moods of regions or groups abroad. According to the Associated Press, these librarians are tracking up to five million tweets a day from places like China, Pakistan and Egypt:
From Arabic to Mandarin Chinese, from an angry tweet to a thoughtful blog, the analysts gather the information, often in native tongue. They cross-reference it with the local newspaper or a clandestinely intercepted phone conversation. From there, they build a picture sought by the highest levels at the White House, giving a real-time peek, for example, at the mood of a region after the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden or perhaps a prediction of which Mideast nation seems ripe for revolt.
Yes, they saw the uprising in Egypt coming; they just didn't know exactly when revolution might hit, said the center's director, Doug Naquin. The center already had "predicted that social media in places like Egypt could be a game-changer and a threat to the regime," he said in a recent interview with The Associated Press at the center. CIA officials said it was the first such visit by a reporter the agency has ever granted.
The CIA facility wasn't built specifically to track the ebb and flow of social media: The program was established in response to a recommendation by the 9/11 Commission with the initial mandate to focus on counterterrorism and counterproliferation. According to the Associated Press, the center shifted gears and started focusing on social media after watching thousands of Iranian protesters turn to Twitter during the Iranian election protests of 2009, challenging the results of the elections that put Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad back in power.
In the past few years, sentiment and mood analysis have become mainstays in the defense and intelligence communities. Last October, an Electronic Frontier Foundation lawsuit revealed how the Department of Homeland Security has carefully monitored a variety of public online sources, from social networks to highly popular blogs like Daily Kos for years, alleging that "leading up to President Obama's January 2009 inauguration, DHS established a Social Networking Monitoring Center (SNMC) to monitor social-networking sites for 'items of interest.' "In August, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), invited analysts to submit proposals on the research applications of social media to strategic communication. DARPA planned on shelling out $42 million in funding for "memetrackers" to develop "innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems."
But how useful is all of this activity?
Memetracking is still in its infancy. I spoke with Johan Bollen, a professor at the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. Bollen's research into how Twitter can be used to predict the rise and fall of the Dow Jones Industrial Average made him a niche celebrity last year. He notes that memetracking is facing serious challenges. For example, how do you get a random sample?
"You have little control over the composition of a sample," Bollen explained. "Regular surveys are conducted with only 1000 people, but those samples are carefully balanced to provide an accurate cross section of a given society. This is much more difficult to do in these online environments. Sure, the samples are huge -- there are 750 million people on Facebook -- but no matter how you look at it, it's still possible that the sample could still be biased. It requires someone to own a computer, to be on Facebook, to even USE Facebook... There are all kind of biases built into these samples that are difficult to control for."
The other major challenge, says Bollen, is that sentiment analysis only provides a scrape of potentially useful information. "Right now, analysis is very specialized. We're looking at how people feel about very particular topics," says Bollen. "There's a lot room for growth in deeper semantic analysis: not just learning what people feel about something, but what people think about things. There are 250 million people on Twitter....if you could perform even a shallow analysis of people's opinions about something, their semantic opinions, you can learn a lot from the wisdom of the crowd that could be leveraged."
Diving deep into the semantics of online communication is the next big challenge for government agencies. While the Associated Press points out that the CIA uses native dialects to determine sample sizes and pinpoint trending topics among target groups, deciphering the intricacies of human language is a major obstacle, and one that will not be easily overcome.
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First post of the year, folks!
I've celebrated Christmas with my Swedish family in my hometown, and a couple of days later, Liz and I flew to the States, and celebrated a belated Christmas and then New Years Eve with our American family and friends! We're now back in Sweden, Liz is back at work, and I'm working on figuring out a few next steps for me in life, which sounds pretty serious (and it is actually pretty important and big to me).
Let's say, 2017 turned into a lot of unexpected turns, which forced me into some new beginnings. It's been a roller coaster the past months to say at least, but I'm finally beginning to see the end of the ride.
I was laid off work this past fall and it wasn't handled good at all by my former company. I've been struggling getting my rights upheld – my legal rights- and there has been a lot of annoying waiting time and more unexpected turns. It's been exhausting!! However, I'm actually glad it happened to me, because it has forced me to move on to what I now believe are way better things. I cannot stress hard enough how excited I am for my new adventures coming up. It's close to being pretty clear now! Once the contract is signed, I'll let you know, but I do have a job offer, actually possibly two job offers, and I'm beyond excited!
So a new year, a new job coming up soon, and I'm feeling better than ever! I think I'm gonna write a post where I make a list of things I wanna do/do more of in 2018. But that's gotta be a different post, I believe. Just wanted to say hi now, and yes, my blog is back on the regular address, and you'll find my portfolio linked up in the main menu. I've also fixed a new header, as you probably have noticed already. A few small changes, but they do feel pretty darn good, I think.


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The Isolation Diaries
Music History Essays
Luciana Garcia
Music History: The Scottish Symphony
The Scottish Symphony by Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony Report by Luciana Garcia-Huidobro
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"This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul". Felix Mendelssohn was a romantic composer, pianist, organist and conductor from Germany. Music was a big part of the family from a very young age. He was the brother of prominent composer Fanny Mendelssohn. Both prodigies are remembered to this day. Mendelssohn had local success early in his career. He then became a prominent composer throughout Europe. Coming from a Jewish family, his works have increased in value and praise in the years after his death due to anti-Semitism expanding during his lifetime. Felix Mendelssohn is known for many truly incredible pieces such as The Italian Symphony, oratorio St. Paul, Elijah and mature Violin Concerto. In this essay, we will be discussing his symphony No. 3, otherwise known as The Scottish Symphony. An intense, creative and beautifully arranged piece.
The symphony begins with the strings and horns introducing the listener to a pleasant harmony. Showcasing Mendelssohn's characteristically conservative composing, contrary to other romantic composers like Franz Liszt and Hector Berlioz. The first violins then take an independent rhythmic route, upgrading the pace and keeping the listener engaged until the full orchestra comes in and the dynamics increase. A sudden silence leaves the ear expectant, relieving the anticipation with more tender harmonic dance between the string and wind instruments. After the flutes do some storytelling, the celebration begins. Dynamics shift rapidly and abruptly, all the instruments start doing different things that blend perfectly into one big crescendo and then we are back down, welcoming the flutes to lead us in a brief path of light joy. The drums come in and so does the complete orchestra, shifting the direction of the path to an exciting and loud one. It goes back and forth for the remaining of the first movement, innovating harmonically and rhythmically every time the piece crescendos and decrescendos. It is very fascinating to hear what innovative dynamics will do for a piece of music.
The second movement begins with a steady, rhythmic drive from the violins as the flutes build up to the drums and bass coming in. Although the rhythm changes, the relationship between wind and string remains constant; strings drive the rhythm, winds lead with melody. There is more dynamic play but it is more prepared in this movement. Specially by the strings. They announce something is coming. There are more crescendos rather than abrupt dynamic shifts, as opposed to the first movement. My favorite thing about this movement is the way rhythm drives the piece. As a rock fan myself, it is fascinating to hear the effect of driving eighths being used in such a different context.
The third movement, Adagio, opens with some nostalgic violins. Then the basses come in with some interesting picking, this being the first time we hear the bass technique in the piece. The beginning of this movement is refreshing to the ear as it is smooth and flows well while having this exciting new element added to the lower strings. There is almost a pause and then it is time for the wind instruments to shine. After they re-introduce themselves, the grandioso energy of an entire orchestra working together is at effect. Overall, this movement lets the ear rest a little bit. The rhythms aren't too innovative, but they keep the listener involved. The dynamic shifts are even more prepared than in Vivace non Troppo, the second movement.
Allegro Vivacisimo, the last movement, goes all out from the beginning. The strings contrast the winds back and forth since the opening note. Then the dynamic goes down for all instruments but only in preparation for a sudden shift. The cellos seem to prepare the stronger and louder measures more in this movement, a job typically left to the violins throughout the piece. What is fascinating about this movement is that there is no real break. All the softer parts give the listener a sense of anticipation for a big crescendo or a sudden dynamic shift. Slow, sustained rhythms seem to disappear, making eighth notes always present in one instrument or another. The grandioso ending is fascinating. The strings guide the listener back down from the intensity and the flute comes in to close with a beautiful melody, harmonized by multiple instruments in a very soothing way. The music decrescendos and then a whole-sounding and unifying ending that every instrument takes part on guides the piece into completion.
I really love this piece so it is a challenge to find something wrong with it. However, my least favorite movement is Adagio. As a singer myself, the element that catches my ear when listening to any genre of music is the voice. Which translates into a higher demand of action to retain my attention when listening to orchestral music, where there is no human voice. Adagio is slower paced and allows the ear to breathe, which to some is a needed element but for me, it is an opportunity for my mind to shift its attention elsewhere.
My favorite movement is Allegro Vivacisimo. From the opening, it hooks the ear into a roller-coaster ride full of rhythmic innovation, instrumental conversation and dynamic dance. The element I love the most about this movement is the ending. After the winds have their motivic dance, the entire orchestra is united in this epic farewell that concludes a great piece perfectly. It is a powerful example of giving the music what it needs.
In conclusion, Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony (No. 3) is a phenomenal piece that exceeds the ear's expectation with dynamic play, melodic flow and rhythmic movement. It walks straight down the fine line between innovation and overly complicated harmony without ever crossing it. This piece is a perfect example of Mendelssohn's worship of music, he gives the piece exactly what it needs, when it does. Still I wonder, what would have been created if Felix Mendelssohn ever crossed the line?
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 rebounded from its worst week so far this year to retake a four-year high on Monday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke signaled supportive monetary policy will remain even though the job picture has begun to improve.
The three major U.S. stock indexes climbed 1 percent or more and all 10 S&P 500 sectors advanced. Gains were led by S&P technology shares, with that sector's index up 1.7 percent, and the S&P health care sector index also up 1.7 percent. Shares of International Business Machines, up 1.1 percent at $207.77, gave the Dow its biggest boost.
Bernanke's comments came as investors try to gauge how much longer a nearly six-month rally in stocks will last and reinforced the view that further quantitative easing, or QE3, from the Fed may be possible.
The S&P 500 is up 25 percent since the end of September, mostly on optimism about the pace of economic growth. With stimulus from the Fed and an improving economy, the climate for stocks is even friendlier.
"There is still a lot of cash on the sidelines looking for a pullback, and I suspect some people over the weekend said, 'Yeah, maybe I'll put some money in,' and then you get Ben Bernanke's comments and that stoked the fire," said Bob Doll, BlackRock's vice chairman and global chief investment officer in New York.
The Dow Jones industrial average shot up 160.90 points, or 1.23 percent, to 13,241.63 at the close. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index gained 19.40 points, or 1.39 percent, to 1,416.51. The Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 54.65 points, or 1.78 percent, to 3,122.57.
As the quarter draws to a close, hedge funds that have been underinvested in stocks could be doing some last-minute shopping for winners in the big rally, strategists said. Financials have led the rally, though almost all S&P 500 sectors are expected to post gains for the quarter.
The S&P financial index is up 23 percent, with just four days to go until the end of the quarter.
In his talk, Bernanke said the U.S. economy needed to grow more quickly if it is to produce enough jobs to continue to bring down the unemployment rate.
"Further significant improvements in the unemployment rate will likely require a more rapid expansion of production and demand from consumers and businesses, a process that can be supported by continued accommodative policies," Bernanke told a gathering of the National Association for Business Economics.
The S&P index fell 0.5 percent last week, a relatively minor decline that was still the biggest weekly slide since the final week of December.
Data on Monday showed pending home sales slipped 0.5 percent in February, according to the National Association of Realtors, confounding expectations for a rise of 1 percent.
The Dow Jones U.S. home builders index still managed a gain of 0.5 percent.
Lions Gate Entertainment Corp rallied 4.5 percent to $15.18 after the strong opening of its film "The Hunger Games," which made $214 million over the weekend globally.
BATS Global Markets Inc on Sunday apologized for a system failure that caused shares in its own initial public offering to erroneously trade for less than a penny on Friday and resulted in Apple Inc's shares being temporarily halted.
About 6.2 billion shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and Amex, compared with the daily average for 2012 of about 6.86 billion shares.
Advancers outpaced decliners on NYSE by a ratio of slightly more than 3 to 1 and on the Nasdaq by about 10 to 3.


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Ryan Gander or the pleasurable frustration
By Lorena Muñoz-Alonso / October 14, 2011 / Art, Review / One comment
This review was originally published on the online art magazine A*DESK in September 2011
An abandoned industrial warehouse in the east of London is the scenario chosen by the British artist Ryan Gander to represent his latest and until now most ambitious project, commissioned by the prestigious producer, Artangel. The choice of the verb "represent" is not incidental: "Locked Room Scenario" is a hybrid, somewhere between an art exhibition, a theatrical play, a mystery novel and a paranoid mental trip.
It's quite likely that many of those who began to read in the eighties will remember the "Choose your own adventure" collection, those children's books where the choice of different options/pages resulted in different outcomes, offering the intrepid reader several books in one. Its motto included suggestive phrases like, "the possibilities are endless: remember that you choose the adventure, that you are the adventure", which fits perfectly to describe this project by Ryan Gander, where the visitor has to banish the cobwebs from the limits of his imagination to be able to navigate this disturbing installation.
To visit "Locked Room Scenario" one has to sign up for an appointment, given that only eight people can be in the space at one time. The day of my visit, early in the morning, I received a text message, in which a certain Spencer A. urged me to meet him in a nearby pub, ten minutes before my appointment. Of course, I realised this afterwards because initially, having not seen the pub on the way, I put the message down to a strange mix up. The information available beforehand about the project is at best limited: one knows the address and that one has to adopt a sort of detective mentality, when studying the objects and the people present, in order to unravel the mystery.
Arriving at the door of the warehouse I see a group of people waiting to enter. Furtive glances and direct stares are exchanged unashamedly. I suspect that some of them could be actors under Gander's orders and I believe they suspect the same of me. Suddenly, one hears screams that seem to come from some wild animals or human beings. The barrier opens and little by little, they let us go in. Having entered the building I go down an unlit passage. Everything is black and I have to slide my hand along the carpeted wall to be able to proceed. I go slowly, blindly, frightened of bumping into the other visitors who have gone in before me. All of a sudden I hear the sound of a slide projector, that materialises in a hole in the wall on my right, at floor height, projecting backwards, as if designed to be seen from a central room to which – I soon discover – there is no access. I think of the labyrinthine installations of the artist Mike Nelson and for a moment, in the darkness, I worry about not being able to find the exit.
After stumbling and bumping several times into closed doors, I arrive at what I presume to be the main entrance. I see a double door, with a poster that informs me that we are in a gallery called Kimberling, to see the group exhibition "Field of Meaning", with a list of artists as unknown (and fictitious) as the gallery itself; amongst whom one finds Spencer Anthony, who I now recognise as the author of that morning's text message. The entrance to the exhibition is, of course, shut.
I manage to squeeze into another dimly lit passage, where I hear lounge music that makes me think of the ghosts congregated in the hotel bar in The Shining. While I advance, increasingly frustrated, I can't stop thinking that someone is observing us, me and all the others, live through the installed security cameras. Are we lab rats in a sociological-artistic experiment? Is Ryan Gander laughing at my lack of astuteness, at my inability to access the closed room of the title? At the end of the passage, a window with half-open blinds allows me to see the back part of the room and a few pieces of the elusive exhibition: a giant furry toy in Klein blue signed by Santo Sterne, a sort of wooden altar with a collection of images, in which photographs by Lee Miller and other works in the Modern style abound, a pair of figurative paintings on wood… Next to it, a room, also closed, where neon lights flicker incessantly, makes me think of Martin Creed and his piece "The Lights Going On and Off".
The clues or signs come rapidly, one after another. A chronology on a wall explains details about the lives of the artists and their participation in key 20th Century movements, such as Situationism, Conceptualism and Fluxus. At the exit, two adolescents sitting on the stairs smoking cigarettes vilify another visitor, who, indignant, returns the insult. "Actors", I think, while my eyes light upon some Klein blue fake fur thrown in a skip, just like the stuff in the work I had spotted a few moments before. Hours later, consumed by the fever of coming to terms with what I had seen, I discover that Santo Sterne is a fictitious artist created by Gander, and that he has included his phantasmagorical presence in various previous projects. On the Internet, I discover dubious references to some of the artists in the list. I even visit the website of the gallery, to find myself in front of a mirage-page, empty.
"Locked Room Scenario" is the astute culmination of many of the concerns that recur in Gander's work. The artist, obsessed with enigmas and story telling, has here created a scenario, frustrating at times, that forces the spectator to fill in the gaps that he refuses to cover. "Locked Room Scenario" is a piece where the susceptibility of the visitor is everything, where only those who use their imagination will fully enjoy (or suffer) the experience. It is a mystery, which will be resolved or not, depending on the desire to carry on investigating having left the area. Gander, fascinated by tangential associations, has managed in this project to materialise, on a grand scale, questions that he had already raised in previous pieces, such as his performance talks titled "Loose Associations" or his exhibitions "You walk into a space, any space" (Lisson Gallery, Londres, 2010) or "It's a right Heath Robinson affair" (Gb Agency and Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, 2009), where large quantities of referents and signs insinuate themselves upon the spectator, who is charged with unravelling, not without effort, the proposed suggestive narratives.
Many could accuse Ryan Gander of being an opaque artist, difficult to read. And elitist, given that this reading can only be carried out with sufficient knowledge of the history (histories) of art and contemporary cultural production. It is not a democratic art nor is it accessible, and doesn't for a moment aspire to be. As Gander himself explained in a recent interview: "Spectators need to invest their time and their energy in my work, in order to receive something in exchange. It is my way of filtering and encountering people who aren't just looking for a dinner party conversation. The true value of the work of art resides in the experience that one has of the work once one has physically left it". "Locked Room Scenario" goes way beyond achieving this aim. Ryan Gander, opaque, irritating yet brilliant, has done it again.
Locked Room Scenario runs thorough the 23rd of October 2011. More information here.
All installation images courtesy of Artangel.
Photographer Julian Abrams
Locked Room Scenario – Ryan Gander
Commissioned and produced by Artangel with the support of Londonewcastle and the Lisson Gallery.
This text was originally written in Spanish. You can read the Spanish version here.
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Colin – we really are in Alice in Wonderland. Has there ever been a government that goes into a recession, whether it is part/fully their fault or not and starts to gain in the polls.
Some can blame the punters/voters for being stupid enough to vote for NuLab(I think that's the popular name apart from the less printable ones on Conservative blogs). They can blame the press, one today claime The Mail and the Times have a Brown agenda.They can blame Mandleson,Russian billionaires and the BBC.
If the government is as bad as all these people make out, with everything people on here and elsewhere say it has done wrong and is still closing the gap with the Conservative Party.
What does it actually tell you about both opposition parties and the people that lead them?
James, there's no guarantee they will be in goverment at any time is there – so no point in having any policies then? (now I understand why there aren't many! :))
The point I was making referred to Cameron's announcement which I listened to carefully and which I am sure you will have heard or read, where he urged the government to 'adopt the policy immediately' to give employers £2,500 N.I relief for taking on people who have been unemployed for 3 months or more.
(Maybe the Tories and Labour could sack 20% of their workforce, replace them with people on the dole, save lots of money on N.I payments and then they wouldn't need any more green holidays to Greece on board yachts to collect cash in order to pay their way!!)
The proposals emanating from the Tories at present are what they would do now, if they were in power,(freeze council tax next year for example) not a wish list for post 2010.
Maybe we should split the country up like the good old days with boundaries suiting all of the contributors prejudice's, then all the rogues on here would be happy at last. :)
I find it surprising how the Tory supporters on here think the next GE is in the bag, it was only 18 months ago that the talk was of replacing your leader was it not? People in this country seem to have very volatile views when it comes to politics, probably out of ignorance but at this stage in the game, the reality is anything could happen in a GE. I would say the longer Brown leaves it the more chance the blues have got but if he gets it right there's lots of permutations for a Brown minority government or a pact with the Lib's early next year.
If Brown can get his vote to 34% or above then the Tories MUST get a minimum of 40% to stand a chance of even forming a minority government or having a Con/Lib pact (the Libs will get 16%min IMO). It's not guaranteed at all is it. More work to be done I'd say.
"I find it surprising how the Tory supporters on here think the next GE is in the bag, it was only 18 months ago that the talk was of replacing your leader was it not?"
Who said that Richard?
I think you are attacking something that isn't there.
A question was asked about weighted means. I don't know exactly how those quoted above were calculated, but assume that they are the mean of a certain number of previous polls, weighted perhaps by the number of people interviewed for these polls?
If so, I would not find them very helpful as, if there is a trend they lag behind the trend, and if there is a sharp, but real change (for example perhaps, although we do not know, a reaction to the recent by-election), they smooth it and make it less clear. I prefer to look at the actual data points, with sampling error born in mind.
Mixing different polls is another potential problem, but perhaps not serious in this case.
I am not a statistician, but a scientist who has studied time-series data for many years.
Tony Jones – "As I posted the other day how anyone can accurately predict the next election is beyond me considering it is hard to predict what the next poll will be." Wise words Tony. It's far too early to predict a Tory landslide based on polls taken in 2008. There won't be an election until 2010. Conventional wisdom has it that the government will close the gap (if there is one) as the election looms, but the Labour improvement in the face of a recession defies conventional wisdom. I think we have to wait & see what other polls say and also be wary of reading too much into a sub-regional-sample of one individual poll. To dismiss this as a rogue poll is very silly, but to regard this poll as in any way definitive is just as silly.
Tony Jones – you seem to think everyone is disapproves of Brown and New Labour (that's the non-partisan form), and therefore it's mad that the polls show support.
I think that says more aboutyou than about the voters.
There's a clear desire for something to be done, and there are clear actions being taken by Brown. Whether or not you agree with borrowing more to effect those actions, you can't deny that they are getting some popular approval.
By the way, taxes always increase during up-turns – and so they should. Last time, the extra revenues were used to pay down national debt, and increase long-awaited investment in public services.
Perhaps the next upswing will allow the concomitant extra tax revenues to pay down the national debt again. The question in my mind is how painful will that be for me during prosperous times. I suspect not very .
Osborne's gone quiet on the fuel tax stabiliser. Presumably he realises that hiking it now would knock a few more points off the Tory lead.
|This is no time for a novice to raise tax.
"the Labour improvement in the face of a recession defies conventional wisdom"
I can see that this statement is logically correct , but would be interested to know if there are historic examples of incumbent administrations defying it to achieve an election victory.
There is a growing narrative in the Press along these lines:-
*Monetary Policy-not Fiscal Policy is the lever which has effect in a recession.
*A Recession caused by a Private Debt bubble cannot be solved by a Public Debt Bubble.
*At a certain point, UK Government Debt levels will collapse Sterling's Exchange Rate, pushing long term interest rates up, and reducing the number of willing buyers of UK Gilts.
*The World does not need-and the USA will not support-a new panoply of International Financial Regulation -Breton Woods2.
If this narrative becomes reality, Brown's fortunes will change & the Conservative's advocacy of Fiscal prudence will gain support.
If the narrative turns out to be flawed, GB could win another term.
I do not think we can borrow our way out of this recession without causing a run on the pound and for that reason I do not believe that Alistair Darling will do more than play at the margins. His room for manouvre is fenced in and all this talk is just the treasury flying kites to test city and public sentiment. We have been here before.
I should have said "Conservative & Lib Dem Fiscal prudence"
Lib Dems would fund their reduction of lower end tax rates, with increases at the higher end as I understand it.
Nick-it would not have surprised me if GB floated Tax Cuts in order to tempt Cameron into announcing some….then do no such thing in the Pre Budget Report, & criticise Cameron for imprudence!
"By the way, taxes always increase during up-turns – and so they should."
john tt:-
If, by "taxes" you mean Tax Revenues from pre-existing Tax Rates-of course.
If you mean Tax Rates-I would be interested to know the evidence for "Tax Rates always increasing during up-turns"
I thought this group was to discuss polls not tax policy can we have either discipline or moderation
Colin – you're right I did mean revenues rather than rates – it's interesting that the TV Tories don't make such a distinction.
Paul – the potential impact of tax cuts on polls make it worthwhile to discuss.
Immoderate discussion requires moderation; no sign of yah-boo nonsense here as far as I can see.
Paul means he wants Anthony to moderate the comments. He doesn't refer to moderation as a political policy.
I don't know what other people think but I don't feel that the response to Cameron's NI announcement yesterday was particularly positive. Over the weekend they were promising some very imaginative and sharp new tax policies but the outcome seems somewhat muted.
A key issue in the tax debate is how quickly and dramatically a borrow and spend policy works, and in part this will be linked to linkages with global issues. Brown is angling for a concerted fiscal stimulus and it looks like he will get it, and this makes life easier in the UK – if we borrow and spend in isolation it would have little impact except to ramp up UK debt, but a coordinated global strategy has a much greater chance of success. This is the lesson of the 1930's.
I think one thing to look for is the structure of any tax cuts. Since his conference speech Brown has consistently flagged up 'fairness'. I am expecting tax cuts heavily balanced towards the lower earners. There may even be a redistributive element, as low earners have a higher spending ratio than top end earners, thus providing a further boost to the economy. I wouldn't be at all surprised if very high earners feel some pain – who would bemoan increasing NI or income tax on £100K plus earners in, lets say the City?
I can't see the Tory NI change affecting the polls, it seems too small a change and too prone to abuse. If I sack 5 people can I then employ 5 new people and get this tax break? If not, then can I as an employer only take on new people if I have not sacked any? seems the whole thing will be too complex to police. Lets see what the other two parties come up with.
Garry-Your right it won't.
But imho that isn't it's purpose-not yet anyway.
Brown sounds as though he will propose a fiscal stimulus paid for by borrowing. Indeed he stated in terms that this stimulus would only be effective if it was funded by borrowing.
ie-he favours a net injection of spending power into the economy, which, together with the further interest rate reductions he hopes for, will in his opinion mitigate job losses.
Cameron agrees with the latter-but not the former(adding to "structural" government debt)-so he proposes to tackle the same problem-rising unemployment-by paying companies to employ people, rather than paying unemployment benefit to those people.
You can argue about the fine print of implementation for either policy-but it's the difference in principle which matters.
We have colours nailed to masts-or as john hh said "clear blue water"-this is a good thing from the voters point of view.
We just have to wait now & see who got it right-the Polls will react accordingly presumably.
Thomas –
You are correct. Calling it a rogue is incorrect. I simply mean that it is skewed by its timing in much the same way as Conference polls.
Labour's tax cuts could see them even take a narrow lead in a poll or two before xmas.
I really do not understand why people on here react so violently to current polls. People should stay calm and look at the polls come February.
My guess is that the Tories will be around 10% ahead by Valentine's as the recession kicks in.
Incidentally, what was the unemployment figure when Labour came to power in 97? I think it was around 1.95m.
Colin it's tt not hh!
Structural borrowing? It's like increasing the mortgage debt on the house. Usually unwise, and only ever to be contemplated if you've already paid a chunk off. Brown's argument is that the current account is empty because we've paid a chunk off in the past.
Personally I'd hate to extend my mortgage, but if needs must, you make a judgement – sell up and downsize, or ride it out with equity release, and think of a plan to stay above water.
It takes confidence to do the latter. Ironically, the educated confidence of the Tory top table doesn't naturally lead them to have confidence in this country's workforce to work through the crisis and compete successfully.
If anyone can answer sunbeam's question, can they also say what the level of national debt was then as a proportion of GDP compared to now? And what inflation and interest rate levels were?
I agree with what you mean, but I object to the language which you use to describe it – 'skewed' implies that the underlying trend is obscured, when really the underlying trend(s) are created by an aggregation of responses to the events. In other words 'skewing' the polls better than the competition is the job all good party management teams are tasked with.
Labour has more power to influence and coordinate the events which 'skew' the polls as they jockey for position, so perhaps as we look back it was a mistake to bury the by-election in the week of the US Presidential election as this also shows they thought they were going to lose it and has consequently minimised any consequent publicity and therefore influence on the national polls.
Would Labour's poll bounce have been higher if Glenrothes had been held one week earlier – or would the ballot have been much closer if held then?
hi Thomas. I'm not sure the result coming so soon after the US election did the LP any harm. I agree is was probably their intention to minimise coverage in the event of a loss, but what it did was allow them to hitch a ride on Obama's coattails and bask in some of the reflective optimism which came with it. By hammering home the message that Gordon Brown saved the world economy (which is the consensus in much of the world, I read most of my news outside the UK), that Labour have a plan (?) for the UK, and by saying that they are changing things around they have somehow managed to seem forward looking again. The first bit of good strategy I have seen from No.10 in a long time. They now need the actions to back it up!
@ Richard (Tatton) – you seem to assume that everyone here except you is a diehard Tory. Not true.
And no election is ever "in the bag" when there's up to, what, 18 months to go before it has to happen.
I think there was a poll recently where 22% of the electorate had trust in politicians.
If Osborne had worked much harder at getting coverage for his ideas TV wouldn't be interested in Redwood. But TV knows Redwood has the fascination of the mad lunatic – everybody loves a nutter. Redwood must know this – did he really say Brown should have let the banks collapse?
IMHO the foreign exchange market and the unions will do for Brown as they have every Labour PM.
The Germans listened to Clement Attlee after the war and did exactly the opposite – who won that war?
One would have expected on a day when employment has risen again and yet more bad economic news is headlining, that at PMQ's, the opposition would have at least mentioned the economy! Not very clever politics in my opinion and certainly no votes to be gained by missing such a good opportunity.
When under pressure, one must not get sidetracked or flustered and miss an open opportunity to examine our oponents economic credibility :)
I get the impression Richard from Tatton is determined to say some of his things about Tory posters before he's read what they say. As an obvious Tory hater, he must be rather frustrated in Tatton, wonderful area though it is.
Redwood did not say the banks should be left to collapse on Newsnight on Monday. He was asked it, I think by an opponent, and clearly denied it, saying he wanted to use private money earlier.
Richard Tatton. Not true at PMQ's Cameron started off by making a comment(not question) regarding the unemployment situation which was refered to on at least 2 TV channels. It was reported that BBC2 feedback was generally very complimentary regarding Cameron and highly critical of Brown at PMQs . Brown has reminded the commentators of several of his weaknesses and this may well influence a change in the narrative.
Richard Tatton
Also the LD leader and I think 2 Tory MP's raised economic issues.
National debt in May 1997 was 44.2% of GDP.
National debt by Feb 2002 was 29% of GDP
National debt 2007 was 36.2% of GDP
National debt September 2008 was 37.9% of GDP
Unemployment in 1992 was 3 million, in 1997 a little over 2 million. (The claimant count is different than the unemployed figures before anyone thinks the figures are wrong!)
In May 1979 there were 25.1 million EMPLOYED
In 1997 there were 26.6 million EMPLOYED
In 2002 there were 28 million EMPLOYED
In Sept 2008 there were 29.4 million EMPLOYED
Inflation May 1979 9.9%
Inflation 1980 18%
Inflation 1997 3.1%
Bank Of England Base Rates :
May 1979 12%
Nov 1979 17%
May 1997 6.25%
Nov 2008 3 %
For those who are interested :)
Mike,I stand corrected re PMQ's must have missed that bit!
JJB, If you read my postings on this track again you will see that I haven't commented on anything any individual Tory posters have said on this thread at all! Tatton is indeed a lovely place (we even voted IND once!) and so is my MP and my dear sister who is very much a Tory parliamentarian, so I am not frustrated at all, I enjoy having my vote communist poster in my Ferrari amongst all the Mondeo Tories :) I hate no one – life is far too short!! Nothing wrong with being a Tory,Lib or Lab or anything else in my book at all, its the people who dont vote that get my goat!!! (But I'm not really a commi :))
a commi is a sort of chef – perhaps you mean a Commie. :)
Inflation rose again from 1979 to 1980 partly because of a switch to VAT.
It has disadvantages, and becomes regressive if too high, but if you properly zero rate things, it actually gives people more choice about what they want to buy.
It's supposed to be about polls here really but your list of 'stats' really is lame and has goaded me into responding!
Do you not think that national debt reduced in the years after the tories were kicked out in'97 in part because their spending plans were adhered to by labour for a few years? It started up pretty quick once they got to work proper eh?
This is just bogus. I reckon we've still got about 3 million on some sort of handout. I'm not sure Labour got rid of ANY unemployed at all, just moved a load onto PERMENANT disability benefits instead!
Also;In May 1979 there were 25.1 million EMPLOYED
How many of those are due to the effect of uncontrolled mass immigration (without making any comment on it's various possible negative effects) and general population growth?
Crime's gone down, kids are brighter and more respectful that ever, no more boom and bust, no more slum estates Blah blah…
Fact is this Labour government will end it's reign just like the last one, leaving my country in a bloody mess both moral and economic.
How's that for partisan?! On the poll, as I'm being honest here, I'm gutted! :-)
JohnH
Yes Ivan – terribly partisan! :)
Just within these four walls, there are some of us who can give credit to many politicians of both (yeah ok all of) the main parties… in my case, leaving aside some particularly divisive examples, such as Th*tch*r or T*ny B*nn.
What gives politics such a bad name among the majority of our fellow citizens is the inability to have anything approaching a civilised, intelligent discussion. Cameron touched a nerve by saying he wanted to avoid "punch & judy politics" – and of course that promise didn't last long. But surely it must be possible to disagree, even strongly, without constantly accusing the "other side" of lies, bad motives, or incompetence – or exaggerating the real power of any government to control all of the events that occur (either to praise or blame them).
Our parties are inevitably broad coalitions; there is and always has been far more overlap of views among many members of the Labour, Liberal or Conservative parties than any of them are willing to admit in public. But it is not hypocrisy both to accept this overlap and also to feel more comfortable with – and to remain loyal to and fight strongly for – one particular party. Neither side is dishonest/corrupt/unpatriotic/stupid, but we disagree on which imperfect team we feel more comfortable with and which we hope will, on balance, be best for the country.
So yes, Ivan (and others) – history WILL show that the last 11 years have seen many important advances and improvements… and also many errors and missed opportunities. I see more of the former and would like at least one more term for Labour, you see more of the latter and would like the Conservatives win in 2010.
Richard (Tatton)
That's only true if you exclude Northern Rock whih you really shouldn't.
And the situation now after the recent bank bailouts is much worse than that and getting bleaker by the day.
Just how bleak will be revealed by Darling in the pre budget report a week on Monday.
Whilst we're on the topic of stats one MP at PMQs asked GB a mischievous question – Would GB be emulating every Labour Government in history by going out of power with unemployment higher than they inherited?
If you look at the Unemployment numbers for May 1997, then look at them now and where they're going then it could well be true that by May 2010 (next election) unemployment will be much higher than the Labour party inherited in 1997. Even soe so called experts are predicting unemployment at 2.5M over the next 12-18 months which is much higher than Labour inherited.
Not something for GB to trumpet although I've no doubt he'll manage to put sone positive spin on it, and not somethig you want in the run up to a GE.
The obvious GB spin is that as the Uk population is a lot higher the proportion of unemployed is the thing to focus on. It will still be higher but not by so much.
The other one is the rise in the work force so even with unemployment growing they can still factually say that there are more people in employment now than in 97.
Of course as with under the Tories much of this has been the rise of part time working and indeed more commonly now people who do two jobs, Office worker by day and pub worker by night.
When you break down the figures you can see that where as thirty years ago we had a lot of men working 40 hrs a week, now we have a higher percentage of women in the workforce many working 30 hrs or so spread over two and sometimes three jobs.
So the numbers employed may be higher but the hours worked not that much different.
I am not in any way against flexible working or more women earning a living, although it would be better if they got better jobs and the same rates as men but my point is that as time goes on these comparisons are of less use and easily manipulated.
Richard's figures above may all be true but they don't represent a data set and are really just a collection of those figures that cast Labour in the best light.
A good example of how politicians use statistics but probably not a smart thing to try on a site frequented by semi professional number crunchers.
All Labour governments run out of money-this one just took slightly longer. We cannot borrow our way out of this recession because we did'nt make provision for a rainy day when times were good and which Gordon Brown assumed would go on forever. We are partly in the hole we are in because the country thought it a brilliant wheeze to live on tick and like an alcoholic we are going to have to be weaned off our addiction and government has to set the example. The electorate are not stupid-they know this and will blame Brown if he causes a run on the pound by flagrantly breaking his own rules.
Our gold reserves have been sold at the bottom of the market.
I think some people are pretty stupid though Nick – the number of "economists" who seem to be calling for the economy to be put back to how it was in summer 2007 – if we attempted that artificially (impossible) we'd compound the problem. And as soon as it recovers, those same voices will want the housing market over inflated again.
Just to counter those two partisan posts above …
If you read Anatole Kaletsky's excellent article in The Times to-day, you'll get the apparent inconsistency into the right perspective.
Basically, there are two ailments, requiring opposite solutions. The cancer is over-borrowing (gone on since Thatcher de-regulated in the 80's), but the collapsed lung is the credit crunch, and that requires re-flation before the chemotherapy of re-regulation can work. There's no point treating a corpse with medicine.
On saving money – a chunk was paid off the national debt by Brown, and now it's being re-increased.
The gold sale is a red-herring – no-one would sell it now.
And we did need to invest in public services. The alternative would have been health and education vouchers, and no-one wants them any longer as far as I can tell.
Kenneth Clarke would not have stuck to his own spending plans had the Conservatives won in 1997, he said so himself when he was speaking out against Brown's stringency in 1999.
So John is another one who complains about partisan posting – I suggest he re-reads his own.
"The gold sale is a red-herring….."
Margaret Thatcher believed in control of the money supply, although there was a case for loosening it, as it is a very blunt instrument.
This government has been in power for 11 years and had plenty of power to control an explosion of M3 credit if it wanted to.
JJB
Mine was partisan, simply to counter yours. I certainly wasn't complaining about partisan posts – I appreciate them because they make me think, and respond – usually respectfully I hope.
The sale of gold – it would make no difference to our current position if we had more gold (by current I mean current account).
The movement in gold price is wrongly used to decry selling it at a low point. The fact is that no-one was advocating selling it at its very high point earlier this year. Gold sits there as security, bolstering confidence perhaps, but more of it wouldn't have any effect at the moment. What is needed is an international response, so that one currency doesn't become a safe haven at the expense of any other. It's no good us lowering interest rates if other countries don't as well.
Selling it, only to see the price rise, was only a mistake if you regard the Chancellor of the Exc. as Head Gambler. (some do, I'm sure!)
Redwood's idea last year was to de-regulate further the mortgage market "because the risks should lie with the lenders" and presumably they would be self-controlled by there own risk management systems.
Now his idea is to not re-capitalise the banks, but to allow them to seek "private" funds to do so for themselves. Like Barclays.
I'm not sure the best people to control our banks are middle-eastern wealth funds (or Asian ones either for that matter), but Redwood appears to advocate it.
"The gold sale is a red-herring…"
The sale of gold under Labour was only partly used to raise revenue. Its more important function was to create a more balanced spread of risk – so while the nominal potential gain from current price rises has been lost, this raises questions about the judgement of the then chancellor.
Balanced accounting has long been consigned to a mere statistical indicator only relevant to levels of confidence, so provided there wasn't a crunch the deficits can be sustained indefinitely.
Unfortunately for all the governments in the post-gold standard period reality has always managed to creep back into the picture to usurp the emphasis placed on politically expedient budgeting by successive Labour and Conservative governments.
John Redwood is an interesting throwback who represents absolute opposition to political expediency – which is an ironic position to hold for anyone in a power-hungry opposition.
The twin morals to this story are that expediency is not sustainable and eventually a return to fundamentals is inevitable (that there is no permanent hiding place), but equally that expediency is vital for the vulnerable (who have good reasons to be fearful) and action is necessary.
Perhaps the current state of affairs shows us at a tipping point between the two poles, which makes things interesting as there is hope that we will find a way to strike a lasting balance.
Thomas – I appreciate your analysis (I'm no expert), but I don't agree with words like "vulnerable" and "fearful" in this context. Expedency certainly should be temporary, but it should not be countenanced out of fear, but rather out of a desire to maximise the chances of a healthy recovery. That takes confidence, not fear, and requires a soliud plan of action, not a hopeful sigh of relief.
Personally I like Redwood's style – I think he's a real character, and a person of conviction – just (in my view) quite wrong about the way to tackle this storm.
"I'm not sure the best people to control our banks are middle-eastern wealth funds"
Well you'd better get used to it john!!
Since November 2007 SWFs have responded to funding requests to the tune of $41 bn in Citi Group//Morgan Stanley/Merryl Lynch…& UBS, the biggest bank in the world.
Barclays & Lloyds would be dead in the water-or UK government subsidiaries- if it wasn't for SWFs
Who is going to buy UK government debt to fund GB's "anti-recession" expenditure if it isn't SWFs?
Brown went to Saudi to ask them to fund his grand new plan for the IMF.
These are the "Masters of the Universe" now-they own huge chunks of the money we've spent ten years binge spending with.This is why we have the "Global Imbalances" GB THe Governor are always refering to..
All that means is-we've spent it-they've got it.
The Global Economic Centre of Gravity is shifting east.
Just on the vexed question of UK Government Debt-a few thoughts from some quick research .
Lets include:-Net Government Debt /Public Sector Pension Liabilities because they are guaranteed by The State and fundable from future taxation streams/PFI Liabilities for all future payments on extant contracts because they are Capital Projects funded by "HP" agreements & so shouldn't be "off balance sheet".
GDP £790 bn ( ONS & BoE)
Net Government Debt £350bn-or 44.2% of GDP ( ONS)
PS Pen. Liabs £ 300bn ( Govt Est-Telegraph)-or 38% of GDP
PFI -just started in earnest-say £15 bn-or 2% of GDP
making a total of £665 bn -or 84% of GDP
GDP £1486 bn (ONS)
Net Government debt £563 bn-or 37.9% of GDP ( ONS)
PS Pen Liab.£915 bn ( CBI)-or 62% of GDP
PFI-£158 bn ( PAC answer Oct 2007))-or 11% of GDP
making a total of £1636 bn-or 111% of GDP
So-the combined Net Debt + PFI liability has increased from around 46% of GDP to 49% of GDP
In addition Public Sector Pension Liabilities have increased from around 38% of GDP to 62%
These figures exclude NR £82bn/ Bradford & Bingley £40bn/Recap of Banks £38bn/Bank Loans & Guarantees £250 bn-which will not be a net cost….hopefully .
As a former constituent of John Redwood I really don't like him, his politics or his manner of dealing with issues.
I do however respect his position for all that I am capable of disagreeing with it.
john tt,
the problem with what you've said is that you are trying to condense responses into a singular view, which is impossible while there are massively disperate and multiple opposing circumstances within society – we have yet to determine where the balance will be found, and this is what is being reflected in the volatility of the polls.
"The electorate are not stupid-they know this and will blame Brown if he causes a run on the pound by flagrantly breaking his own rules."
Agree with you on this – A "golden rule" is only believable if it sacrosanct at all times and will never be broken. GB said in the good times that he "guaranteed" that his 40% Golden rule would never be broken. Now it has been broken and over the next 18 months it will have been broken by a very long way indeed.
By the look at the big falls in Sterling it looks like the markets have finally woken up to the Governments real financial position.
The Tories should be making a lot more of these facts in their questioning of the Government.
Fluffy Thoughts (E.D.P.)
Same failed social-services, despite billions-of-pounds wasted. And then even the Trots have admitted that any tax-cuts forthcoming are illusionary.
Time for England to have a choice, and not a dictated solution. Bye-bye Scotland, Wales, Northern-Ireland, Europe, et al.! ;)
[P.S.: The Kingdom Of England is not exclusive: all former Crown-Colonies are welcome. Holland and Flanders would be cool. Massachusetts and Manhatten are Crown-owned (but were stolen) – ask the people of Maine! So don't think there is no hope outside Her Majesty's English Realm! :) ]
[Anthony: Apologise for a tired post! The poll will prove an outlier. Major Tory win will occur (despite their unwillingness to give we-English a voice…).
Happy birthday to the Prince-of-Wales. God-bless-Our-Queen! :)
Anthony, what is going on…?
I thought a rational discussion of Economics was not the point of this site? We should surely reflect on the polling-information and what it portends…?
Or will you allow me carte-blanche…? It may upset a few regulars…. :(
rlh
if government borrowing goes up now to fund public sector spending and tax cuts and the recession is shorter and shallower than if government borrowing doesn't go up now would that result in government borrowing being lower in the medium term even though it would go up in the short term ?


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