Crash Crash Crash !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sabretoothtigger

i feel the BSE or NSE in india has got further to fall.

Thanks bubble, I do appreciate it when people take the time to disagree properly I havent read everything you posted yet but I will.

Theres no way I'd want to invest in India in a lump sum as I know very little about the market, this is always the reasoning behind people using a ftse tracker because we hear all about it every day but anyway I'd want to call india long to very long term

bubblesmoney

sabretoothtigger wrote: »

Thanks bubble, I do appreciate it when people take the time to disagree properly I havent read everything you posted yet but I will.

Theres no way I'd want to invest in India in a lump sum as I know very little about the market, this is always the reasoning behind people using a ftse tracker because we hear all about it every day but anyway I'd want to call india long to very long term

i dont believe in trackers. never did even in mutual funds, etc. for the small investor investing in a few companies with a bit of research (plus loads of luck:rotfl: ) goes a long way, far better tham mutual funds or trackers. no need for fees etc eating into profits. but works only when you know the market from a local perspective.

bubblesmoney

if you see the graph updated on 9.3.2009 then this is worse than 1930 depression. At this point - 17 months into the bear market - this is the worst ever (lower than the Great Depression bear after 17 months).:eek:

harryhound

sabretoothtigger wrote: »

Here is a population pyramid animation ! http://www.statistics.gov.uk/populationestimates/svg_pyramid/uk/index.html

Fascinating and depressing.
The initial graph is interesting:
The 1918 flu pandemic.
The 1946 baby boom.
The 1960's as the baby boomers got it together and then realised the pill had been invented.
The depressing 1970's.

Then as the bar charts motor on you get a funny effect starting in the "noughties".
As the human brain tries to see patterns when none exist, I will call this the "swelling breasts" effect.:D
Presumably this is immigration, followed a few years later by another mini boom as the immigrants form households and have more kids of their own. This seems to be followed by an ongoing high rate of immigration. I think this projection is unrealistic as the majority of the noughties immigrants have a right to go back to their country of origin (Poland?) even in a world wide depression, and the continuing flow of migrants from the desperate parts of the the third world will be politically unacceptable.. The second generations already here are unlikely to be as procreative as their parents.

The idea of Britain, swollen into the "pregnancy profile" by constant immigration; with a population heading for 90 million depresses me, but I won't be around to see it.
For those of you who will, this recession/slump/depression/downturn/crunch might turn out to be a blip, like the Suez crisis, compared with what is to come as the "carbon economy" gets a grip on our life styles.
Here is a fun automation of what is happening now:
http://www.breathingearth.net/

sabretoothtigger

China suggests switch from dollar


With the world's largest currency reserves of $2tn, China is the biggest holder of dollar assets.
Its leaders have often complained about the dollar's volatility.
China has long been uneasy about relying on the dollar for trade and to store its reserves and recently expressed concerns that Washington's efforts to rescue the US economy could erode the value of the currency.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7960620.stm



time repeats ?

August 15, 1971, Nixon unilaterally imposed 90-day wage and price controls, a 10% import surcharge, and most importantly "closed the gold window," making the dollar inconvertible to gold directly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system#U.S._monetary_influence

Topov_3

Where is that sockpuppet bloke when we need him?

Oh well, I'll 'out' sabretoothtigger as the gone but (due to this thread that sabretoothtigger is determined to keep going) not forgotten 'blisk'.

tut tut. let it go blisk, let this thread receive a decent burial..

harryhound

I like this thread, it is so "visual"

Davesnave

Topov wrote: »

let it go blisk, let this thread receive a decent burial..

So, posting on here is how you kill it off?

That's a bit like having unprotected sex, just to check if you still need to use contraception.

Oblivion

Davesnave wrote: »

That's a bit like having unprotected sex, just to check if you still need to use contraception.

I'm so old I don't need contraception ... I need a contraption! :rotfl:

Dave.

sabretoothtigger

argh sock puppet zombie, what have I done




In other news, Barclays rose 25% today so not everyone is listening to this thread I guess.


Some say the people in cash will be the ones in the end who lose the most and moves like this seem to support that idea

Its counter intuitive so worth adding here is a vid explaining why Peter Schiff is buying a house
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAls9m9vJM0