"Hookers & Blow" Lift Britain Over France As World's 5th Largest Economy
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/27/2014 15:00 -0500

Britain has inched out France as the world's fifth-largest economy thanks to what The Telegraph calls "a shake-up" of the national accounts this summer.



UK gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to total $2.828 trillion (£1.816 trillion) this year, compared with French GDP of $2.827 trillion, as The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) said Britain's acceleration was boosted by the inclusion of sex and drugs to UK growth (as part of new pan-European accounting standards). Official estimates show prostitution added about £5.7bn to the UK economy in 2013, while illegal drugs were worth about £6.62bn. One question - how did they estimate it?

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More:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-27...largest-economy

Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #2

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"Britain's acceleration was boosted by the inclusion of sex and drugs to UK growth..."

Ridiculous.

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Well ... if you think about it one could make a better argument for including Hookers and Blow than for including ObamaCare.