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Falklands' retail price index down to 0.3% in first half on lower fuel and power costs
The Falklands' Retail Price Index for the quarter ending June 30, 2015 decreased by 0.8%, meaning that the annual Retail Price Index (RPI) as at the end of June was 0.3%, helped by lower prices of fuel and power. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAnd just think, they could be enjoying 10, 2o or 30%* inflation now as part of Argentina.
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 03:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0* - your guess is as good as INDEC's.
In Venezuela they are now using the bank notes as toilet paper.
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 07:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Won't be long before the same thing happens in Argie land.
Well done the FALKLANDS, living whithin your means is excellent governance. Can't wait to see the FALKLANDS get the rewards of oil exportation, but it will be some time yet. But good to see that even if it is not profitable at the moment sometime in the future they will reap the rewards as the oil is going nowhere.
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 08:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'm very grateful for the strong leadership of our legislative assembly. They are rightly determined to ensure our spending stays within our means. Yes, at times it's frustrating; I think most of us would like a better road to our international airport but it's going to take time to achieve. There are lots of other priorities for capital spend also and I think our leaders, armed with all of the information, are doing the right thing.
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 11:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0I can think of nothing that would improve for us if Argentina got its dirty cheating hands on our islands.
I barely come on MP any more because the trolls are out of control and frankly I think MP could do more to sort them out but they're just enjoying the number of hits they're getting that obviously converts into good revenue.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of our loyal Falklands supporters on here. Your support means the world to us. I'd also like to thank Uruguay for the tremendous support you gave us again this week.
@4
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 01:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There's barely a decent troll around these days. it's mostly “I speak your weight” machines.
Good to see that the Falkland Islands, despite the many attempts of argieland to destroy their economy, frequently and lyingly denied by the biggest liars of the world, continues to show how an economy should be organised and operated. Many of us have, jokingly, postulated idea of the Falkland Island buying argieland. However, if the Islands' economy is already so successful, why not? It would, I think, be reasonable to begin with those segments of TDC with the greatest wishes for democracy and freedom. With the FI from the east and Chile from the west, Tierra del Fuego could be free in a few months. Once TDF has found how wonderful “proper” values are, Patagonia could be overrun from three quarters.
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 01:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4. But there are many of your supporters that don't get on here. What about the support from the people of Britain? What about the support from the British government who, I'm glad to say, continue to do the right thing? What about the support from the British armed forces present on, or regularly visiting the Islands? What proportion of the 64.5 million people of the UK deserve gratitude? What proportion of the 35.75 million people of Canada? What proportion of the 4.6 million people of New Zealand? What proportion of the 321.5 million people of the United States? These are all respected nations. Unlike many of those “countries” that occupy south america.
Good Luck Jo!
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 01:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You have lots of support both in the UK and all around the world.
Just to clarify my post. I wanted to use MP ('on here') to thank all of our supporters. Subtly different from only wanting to thanks those who express their support on MP. For your info Conqueror, I already do thank many other people and organisations for their support. Support for which I am truly, truly thankful.
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 02:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I meant to ask if anyone knows where that top photo was taken. I'd be surprised if it was in the Falklands. Just a file pic from MP I guess.
8 Jo Bloggs
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 04:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”I wanted to use MP ('on here') to thank all of our supporters.”
No need to do that Jo, We are behind you all the way ( or, should that be 'beside you all the way' ?? )
Go Falklands!!
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Aug 22nd, 2015 - 05:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@10
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 06:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“There are none so blind as those who will not see”
1.4% Inflation, when can you imagine that Argentina would be able to achieve that, UK is at 0% with a small rise to .5 expected.
All those industries you mention would not be suitable to a small island community, I doubt they would ever want to cover their islands in factories, nor do they need to.
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Aug 22nd, 2015 - 06:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Did anyone see paulcedron and his desperate mates peering over the jealous walls , crying over all the great things that the Falkland's have,
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 06:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and desperate gutter back home,
trying to sneak into the Falkland's, how desperate are they, chuckle..lol
@12
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are such a jealous little boy, grow up for petes sake. Tell us what Argentine company makes cars apart from assembling them.
Take his toys away...lol
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 06:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“and the current round of oil exploration”
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Actually the current round of oil exploitation is collapsing.
RHK
45.000(used to be 500 right?)
Change:
↓ -2.500 (-5.26%)
@10. Doesn't exist in argieland either. Which bits of the construction, architecture and engineering industries are actually argie-based? None of them.
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Aug 22nd, 2015 - 07:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@Joe 4
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 07:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Love to visit your fantastic Islands one of these days.Take no notice of the Trolls they are the sort of people who would take a shit in your kitchen before running away.
@10,18
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 08:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You still have not answered my Question so I put it to you again, what Argentine company manufactures cars apart from kit cars. ( assembled in Argentina ) Try googling it if you do not know, I am waiting with bated breath, you sad child.
Falklanders: Would you like to exchange your Ms. Granger for our Mr. Astori? Please? Pretty please? We'd be happy to throw in several other members of the Uruguayan government.
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 08:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Paul has a typical peronist view of what supposedly makes an economy work.
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 10:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Must be why Argentina has such a successful economy...... oops!
@10: Once again Paulie:
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 11:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 01. What is Argentina's inflation rate at he moment?
2. What is your GDP?
3. How many live below the poverty line?
4. What is the current unemployment level in Argentina?
You never answer these questions. All you do is point out our “failings”. I just hear sour grapes from you.
Face it sonny, your economy is in the toilet. Your government is corrupt. More money is being lost as we sit here, with your president and her mates sucking the vaults dry. Why else put a 26 year old, with no experience, in charge of the National Bank? Are you really all that stupid?
Anyway, I have to go enjoy the wealth, sorry. See you when you drop by!!
Cheery-bye
dear PeDoG
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 12:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0i am the first to say that argentina ruled by this government is a disaster, most of all because of corruption.
i am the first to say that kicillof and the rest of the tw@ts cannot even manage a centro de estudiantes-
i am the first to say that fernandez the kirchner, her son and daughter, her sister in law, de vido, rossi, his daughter, báez, cristobal lópez, cirigliano, verbitsky, etc etc etc should rot in jail for the rest of their lives.
now the question is, what has that got to do with this issue?
as far as i know they are talking about the “economy” of the islets here.
do you understand that?
no?
Hey Paulie,
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 12:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0|We do indeed have an Economy:
It is based on business in:
DeepSea Fisheries - and some is also landed and processed onshore. A growing amount is landed and exported out by reefer container from Stanley -to a wide range of International destinations.
Agriculture;
We produce and Export Wool & Lamb.
We even export a small amount of Fresh Produce- salads.
Tourism income from overseas tourists - land based,and one day cruisers, is worth several million dollars a year.
Then the retail industry within the Islands.
Automotive maintenance and repair.
Catering services
Telecomms services
Banking Services
Insurance services
Port Services
Oil Industry support services
---------shall I go on?
Do please learn not to talk tripe!
@24, Yep got it perfectly, Paulie! We have an economy. We export more than we import and we do import a lot. But we always have a budget surplus, which, if we didn't have an economy to speak of, we wouldn't have.
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 12:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0I know it's very difficult for you to understand, coming from where you do, but it is true. Because we are a small country income from, say, tourism, has a huge impact on our lives and because the budget is managed and not siphoned off into an off-shore bank account, we all benefit.
My point regarding your post was that it was the usual sour grapes from you. If you all got off your collective arse and did something about your government, you could make an effort of trying to make Argentina used to be.
Maybe, when the next election comes up, have a go at voting for democracy, or something. Something different to what you have had for the last 30 years.
Then, you can start taking the piss out of our tiny, well off country.
Got that?
I am really looking forwards to your visit. When are you coming over?
Cheerio
Just to clarify,the FI are a UK oversea territory.
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 07:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0UK car production is on track to build 1.7 million vehicles this year.Almost all are premium products.
Argentine production of kits is about half that.
@10,18,24
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 08:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Paul you are avoiding my question, name the Argentine manufacturers of cars in Argentina ( NOT KIT CARS ) no answer came the stern reply, I take it from his silence and acquiesence that the answer is NONE. Although I will give you the right of reply.
Paulecedron- has the cat got your tongue???
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 11:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Paul is just envious of a place where people live free, have a great life and can count on good governance.
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 03:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He has none of that.
He's only known a place that is always on the verge of collapse. Its just varying degrees of how bad is it now. Its never good or lasting.
He knows he lives in and Idiocracy and he can't escape.
@28: Golfcronie, “no answer came the stern reply, ” surely you ought to have said “wise reply”? Paulie is always “wisely” telling us oracular things, which is why we all sit with bated breath on the pearls that drop from his sweary, racist keyboard!! ;-)
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 05:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0paulcedron III (#)
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0i am the first to say that argentina ruled by this government is a disaster, most of all because of corruption.
i am the first to say that kicillof and the rest of the tw@ts cannot even manage a centro de estudiantes-
i am the first to say that fernandez the kirchner, her son and daughter, her sister in law, de vido, rossi, his daughter, báez, cristobal lópez, cirigliano, verbitsky, etc etc etc should rot in jail for the rest of their lives.
perhaps the brainwashing is wearing off....lol
@32
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 08:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He wasn't the first to say that we all have been saying that for years, how dare he say he is first, lying towrag.
lolo.
Aug 24th, 2015 - 12:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0i know that you, brothers and sisters from the islets, do not know a sh*te about cars.
Aug 24th, 2015 - 02:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0why would you?
you dont have cars in the islets.
so let me enlighten you, dear benny-hillbillies:
argentina produces a lot of cars, many of them exported to our dear england.
some examples are: ford ranger, ford focus, vw amarok, ford transit, ford mondeo, ford fiesta, vw passat, mercedes benz viano, mercedes benz vito etc, etc, etc.
so, many of our dear brothers and sisters form little britain are now driving the marvelous argentinian cars.
most of all since most of the factories located in england has been closed.
i think the last good thing our dear englanders have done was the ariel 1000 square four.
but that was in 1959.
since then, all was a big disaster.
@35 Think Pablo
Aug 24th, 2015 - 03:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0VW, Ford, Mercedes...
none of those sound very Argentinian!!
@35
Aug 24th, 2015 - 07:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0Your answer proves the point that I made NO CARS ARE MANUFACTURED IN ARGENTINA, they are all foreign makes of cars ( made from kit parts ) Can you prove the statement you made regarding the export of cars to the UK, I find it extremely unlikely that the foreign makes of cars you mention cannot be bought cheaper from the EU. After all the makes you have mentioned are foreign to Argentina. You really are an ignorant troll, get your facts right before posting. Try googling “ cars manufactured in Argentina ”
37
Aug 24th, 2015 - 10:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0the brands are american, german, french, whatever.
but the cars are manufactured here for the whole mercosur, mexico and many other minor markets like england.
it seems you don't understand the definition of manufacturing.
try to understand it from its etymology.
wot?
you dont understand what etymology is?
not a surprise, my dear benny-hillbilly.
@35
Aug 24th, 2015 - 12:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“ vw amarok, ford transit, ford mondeo, ford fiesta, vw passat, mercedes benz viano, mercedes benz vito etc, etc, etc.”
Mechanical version of you.
Implanted squatter.
38 Thinkpablo
Aug 24th, 2015 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“the brands are american, german, french, whatever.
but the cars are manufactured here for the whole mercosur, mexico and many other minor markets like england.”
Ha ha, those are Export version cars, built to a lower standard for the third world, in many cases using obsolete or otherwise outdated platforms, no longer used for EU UK, or US.
Many of these outdated versions would not meet US/EU build standards for safety and emissions.
Your market is perfect for the Chinese auto manufacturers, who don't give a damn about those sorts of things either, and the Argentine families who will buy a cheaper Chinese car because they don't know it wi fold like an accordion and kill their children in an accident.
I've said for a long time I think the auto mfg will pull out when hyperinflation starts in Argentina. This is not like the 80s when they didn't have mfg all over the world. The little bit of mfg that comes out of Arg could be easily absorbed into Mexico and Brazil.
Aug 24th, 2015 - 01:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This next crash will be like 1989 and 2001 combined.
Like nothing they've ever seen.
Hyperinflation should start 3....2....1.....kaboom
as i have wisely said, it doesnt matter too much if the retail price index down to 0.3% in the islets.
Aug 24th, 2015 - 01:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0mostly because you dont have a real economy there.
if you check the goods to which they refer, kerosene for the lamps, chum for fishing, chewing tobacco, liquor made in the alembic, etc, you realize that it is a hillbilly economy.
of course, nobody will have inflation in those products.
again, the islets have the complexity of gilligan's island in sociological terms, but without the brains or the inventive.
you need somebody like the professor there.
Soy is down 17% yoy
Aug 24th, 2015 - 02:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And in Argentina all the variable costs are up
Nobody is gonna plant
I think its funny that they put all their eggs into VM too. Its U$30 below production costs.
Bahahahahaha
3...2...1...
talking about economy, it seems those tiny little “oil wells” in the islets will be totally unviable.
Aug 24th, 2015 - 02:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0most of all after this:
Crude oil briefly tumbles below $38 on market turmoil
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/oil-tumbles-to-fresh-lows-on-china-market-turmoil-2015-08-24-2103336
sad sad sad
44. You should be much more worried about Argentina. The Falklands will be fine. They'll always be richer per capita than your country.
Aug 24th, 2015 - 03:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0VM is dead.
You better take some self defence classes.
Its not going to be too fun going shopping with bare shelves and a wheel barrow full of worthless pesos.
To any Islander out there:
Aug 25th, 2015 - 11:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0What is exactly doing the gentleman in the first picture? looks like he´s pumping fuel to a house, is that what you guys use down there to heat the house?
Thanks in advance.
I thought that
@42: “as i have wisely said,...” when was that? You have never said anything wisely.
Aug 25th, 2015 - 10:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The kero is bought from the UK. There is no chewing tobacco here, no market for it. There is a beer manufactured in Argentina, but most of our alcohol comes from the UK.
An economy is based on a lot more than manufacturing, Paulie. But you'd know that because you are so wise.
As has been pointed out to you many times, we have a balanced budget here. What we import is balanced by what we export and there is always a surplus, i.e. money left over for improvements in infrastructure. There are plenty of cars here, some imported from Japan, some imported from the UK. None from Argentina, because the vehicles you produce don't make it into the UK market.
“ it seems those tiny little “oil wells” in the islets will be totally unviable...” Why? You don't just sell it, you can even store it! The oil will be a bonus to the economy, but at the moment the economy isn't relying on something we don't have yet. You won't understand that kind of investment, coming from where you do, but I imagine KFC has something to replace China with, to offset the possibility of Paulie having to cart a barrowload of readies around to buy a loaf of bread, as the Argentine economy heads down the pipes.
I did check my savings earlier and they are still worth what they were last week. How's your bank account doing Paulie?
Sebasvtz - I think that is what he is doing, just seems a strange place to have the fuel tank! I will drive by tomorrow to check it out!
Aug 26th, 2015 - 02:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yes most homes now use Kerosene for heating - and like ours cooking also on a central heating cooker. A few use gas or electric for cooking - but both are costly here. Several now have Solar panels on the roof for heating purposes and thus reduce fuel costs.
Very few use the traditional peat for cooking and heating today.
@ 48
Aug 26th, 2015 - 10:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Thank you very much, Islander1.
Siding on the house....kerosene fuel tank obviously in the basement...looks like millions of houses in the States....probably is, who bothers building a basement nowadays....
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