Financial advice please

[piskieinboots]

What the heck is 'negative growth'?

I understand it to be GBP is falling - so how the heck is is growth then

[Capsid]

Another oxymoron that plagues our language.

[piskieinboots]

It's up there in the buzz word bo!!ocks - why can't they just say 'it got smaller'

[Glutton4...]

I completely agree, Pisk. We had a thread about 'corporate speak' a few months back, with many other annoying sayings. I'll see if I can find it and post a link in case you missed it;

[Glutton4...]

Here ya go;

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ure_57516.html

You may have seen it, I dunno. If so, just tell me to chuff off! LOL

[piskieinboots]

Ah yes, I'd forgotten about that - thanks lovely horsey

[HeyWayne]

LadyWayne works in banking - you should hear it when a group of them get together. I go and sit in a corner and play solitaire.

[taff]

It's when you make money, either a little bit or a lot, and the bankers still nick it anyway....

[taff]

oops, bad timing....

[HeyWayne]

oops, bad timing....

It's ok, that's actually quite funny. Even more so when reading it on my MacBookPro aboard my yacht in San Tropez.

[shobhna]

Negative growth is when the green shoots of recovery take one look at the murky daylight and decide to go back underground because it is much safer and warmer there and that they have the roots there for company.

It's like a minus minus......of a minus. A bit like a minus zero.

[Florence Fennel]

Sits quietly watching information flying overhead, blissfully ignorant.

[HeyWayne]

What the heck is 'negative growth'?

I understand it to be GBP is falling - so how the heck is is growth then

You of course mean GDP though pisk...;-)

[piskieinboots]

I do? Oh yes, I do - erm, what he said

[Glutton4...]

Negative growth is when the green shoots of recovery take one look at the murky daylight and decide to go back underground because it is much safer and warmer there and that they have the roots there for company.

It's like a minus minus......of a minus. A bit like a minus zero.

*Aims a clout in Shobhna's general direction...