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Sorry, Barry, I've been on holiday so missed out on the argument on this thread.
In my facetious little way, I was implying that the original post was claptrap - the economy, real or imaginary, is nowhere near being fixed or even on the mend and for you to say differently is just plain wrong. Don't point at factors you've listed and put any party spin on it - look at the real people in your home town for whom economic pointers mean nothing, but merely surviving from week to week is the key part of their lives.
I see that credit card debt has plummeted over the past 12 months and I hope that this means people have become wise to how credit can easily wipe you out unless you're in control of it; I likewise hope that this means people are clearing, as best they can, what they owe in the realisation that their money will work better for them if they don't have stump up huge interest payments. All of which leads me to widen the playing field to Europe - if the EU think, for one minute, that the answer to Greece's problems lies in them being able to borrow more and more money and having more and more time to pay it back, then they're seriously flawed in their thinking and no matter how much playing up our economy is played up, the inevitable iceberg that RMS Euro is headed for will take us all down with it. The trouble is that I think too many people realise that to be taken in by any pretences that all is well. It most certainly isn't.