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Tuesday 26 October 2010 8:48 pm by Taboolaby TaboolaSponsored LinksSponsored LinksPromoted LinksPromoted LinksYou May LikeMisterStoryWoman Files For Divorce After Seeing This Photo – Can You See Why?MisterStoryTotal PastThe Ingenious Reason There Are No Mosquitoes At Disney WorldTotal PastMoneyPailShe Was Famous, Now She Works In {State}MoneyPailSerendipity TimesInside Coco Chanel’s Eerily Abandoned Mansion Frozen In TimeSerendipity TimesMagellan TimesThis Is Why The Roy Rogers Museum Has Been Closed For GoodMagellan TimesElite HeraldExperts Discover Girl Born From Two Different SpeciesElite HeraldZen HeraldThe Truth About Why ’40s Actor John Wayne Didn’t Serve In WWII Has Come To LightZen Heraldmoneycougar.comThis Proves The Osmonds Weren’t So Innocentmoneycougar.comTaonga: The Island FarmThe Most Relaxing Farm Game of 2021. No InstallTaonga: The Island Farm Strong recovery requires a rate hike Share Show Comments ▼ KCS-content whatsapp whatsapp So much for the merchants of doom and all of those who, desperate for another fix of cheap money, have been calling for a resumption of quantitative easing. They have all been proved completely wrong. Yesterday’s excellent GDP growth numbers confirm what I have long been arguing: that far from being on the brink of a vicious double-dip recession, the UK economy is doing surprisingly well, despite weak credit growth, a flagging consumer and a declining housing market. Further monetary loosening now would be madness.Bizarrely, some were still claiming last night that the reduction in the UK’s rate of growth from 1.2 per cent in the second quarter to 0.8 per cent in the third quarter was something to worry about. Given that even annualised growth of 3.2 per cent, as we saw in the most recent three months, is unsustainably strong, it is hard to see how anybody could possibly have expected the UK to have continued to expand at the even more extreme annualised rate of 4.8 per cent seen in the second quarter. Economic literacy is evidently a rare commodity.The expansion will now slow. It has to. Next year will be tough, as the state starts to retrench in earnest; at some point the UK will revert to its now much lower trend rate of growth of two per cent a year or so. But so far even economic realists have been confounded by the speed of the recovery. GDP has now recovered 40 per cent of its loss between the first quarter of 2008 and the third quarter of 2009, according to analysis from Henderson’s Simon Ward. Even assuming that growth slows to 0.4 per cent in the fourth quarter, GDP will increase by 1.8 per cent in 2010, easily smashing the consensus forecast of 1.3 per cent made by economists at the start of the year. Of course, the economy remains smaller than it was at the peak of the bubble: third-quarter GDP was 3.9 per cent below its first quarter of 2008 record, compared with a maximum decline of 6.5 per cent in the third quarter of last year. But at the equivalent stage in the early 1980s recovery, ten quarters after output peaked in 1979, GDP was still 4.4 per cent lower. We are doing remarkably well.Yesterday’s figures reveal that GDP growth hit 2.8 per cent year on year, above the 1998-08 average of 2.6 per cent, according to Citigroup estimates. The figures were substantially stronger than the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee had expected: it had estimated that growth by now would only be around 2.3-2.5 per cent year on year. The Bank has argued that the aim of its ultra-loose monetary policy is to boost nominal GDP growth – actual growth plus inflation – to five per cent a year; we are well above that today, especially with price rises at elevated levels.One reason why the economy did better than many feared in the third quarter is that most analysts have misunderstood what is happening to the all-important money supply. While the total amount of money in the economy has been growing at a sluggish rate, it has been circulating much more quickly, boosting demand.The economy will probably grow by 1.8 per cent this year. Next year will be tough but the private sector’s momentum should allow it to cope with public sector cuts; these may even prove expansionary if they reassure companies that the UK is once again a safe place in which to invest. The debate needs to move on: it is time for the Bank to start hiking interest [email protected] Tags: NULL read more