Assume they spend 500bn, that's a tiny fraction of the total money supply

and businesses haven't changed anything since the injection

i don't see them doing it then

yeah but its still going to have a significant effect

obviously £12 for a pint of milk is an extreme example

To have 100% inflation for a year would need you to effectively increase the money supply by 10x

for that to happen you need to be in a state where people outside of your country are demanding things

I suspect they'll use the Japanese model - buy back the debt over time and write it off

i don't think we're in that place at all

I think the world is trying to invent it's way out of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBB9bA-gXL4

Worth the watch guys

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-the-coronavirus-mortality-rate-so-much-lower-in-germany-

feb retail sales figures on thursday... thatll be interesting

interesting, but somewhat meaningless

or I guess marches will be more interesting

How’re they doing court hearings then?

I don't doubt they'll continue to lock up crooks

Most court cases don't have juries here, remember

yeah majority of cases are vid conf anyway apparently

Nah they’re telephone conferences

As far as i can tell, they’re doing public enquiries by video conferencing

Telephone conferences are still happening though

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/brexiteer-tim-martin-will-not-pay-staff-during-start-of-coronavirus-outbreak-1-6575642

He can furlough them on 80% at least

What a waster

That's just the anti-brexit leftist media hating on him because he supported brexit

@Crafty To be fair Supermarkets do need more support.

yeah this is from r/uk

they're fuming

https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/fo2o7m/watch_wetherspoon_boss_tells_staff_to_work_in/

REEEEE!

Surprised FF isn't in here sperging about it 🙂

if you actually listen to the video, it paints a totally different picture

to their reeeing

and the headline

@Crafty Can you post the original video?

https://twitter.com/Dittomoogle/status/1242177322213662730

People read/watch stuff like this out of context and get the wrong idea

If you're contracted, you'll get paid, simple as

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing