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Sell anything that isn't nailed down

Looks like this is the 'big one' :)

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  • pumpndump
    pumpndump Posts: 139 Forumite
    I have been on the market all day and I have just come back from the pub, which is pretty good for someone who doesn't drink! Things were so bad this week that we have brought in a couple of masseuses to help with our overstressed staff. They have been arguing all day with middle class idiots who think they are the Napoleons of finance when they know ££$$ all about investing. I am fed up with these amateurs: they are stuck on stupid. You were right all along, iamesbro. This is the big one. Sell anything that isn't nailed down while you can.
    In the field of investment, 99 per cent of everything is garbage. Why? Because we have "gearing". - Robert Beckman
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Glad you are not dealing with my finances.
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • pumpndump
    pumpndump Posts: 139 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    Glad you are not dealing with my finances.

    You don't know who I am. I might be managing your pension fund.

    God help anyone called Steven who has a surname beginning with J when they hit retirement...
    In the field of investment, 99 per cent of everything is garbage. Why? Because we have "gearing". - Robert Beckman
  • tomstickland
    tomstickland Posts: 19,538 Forumite
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    pumpndump wrote: »
    They have been arguing all day with middle class idiots who think they are the Napoleons of finance when they know ££$$ all about investing. I am fed up with these amateurs: they are stuck on stupid.
    What have they been arguing then?
    Happy chappy
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    pumpndump wrote: »
    You don't know who I am. I might be managing your pension fund.

    God help anyone called Steven who has a surname beginning with J when they hit retirement...

    Not unless you moved my funds from 75% stock market to 50% in July 2007, which is what happened to my funds.
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • I'm just glad I never bothered buying into a pension scheme with the way things are going.
  • pumpndump
    pumpndump Posts: 139 Forumite
    What have they been arguing then?

    The usual. We carried out their instructions, and now we're to blame.

    "I have lost my life savings, and it's all your fault. What are you going to do about it?"
    In the field of investment, 99 per cent of everything is garbage. Why? Because we have "gearing". - Robert Beckman
  • pumpndump
    pumpndump Posts: 139 Forumite
    Thanks, Tom. That hit the spot.

    But it's frighteningly close to the truth.
    In the field of investment, 99 per cent of everything is garbage. Why? Because we have "gearing". - Robert Beckman
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