'Close this site for the recession?' blog discussion

Former_MSE_Lawrence

This is the discussion to link on the back of Martin's blog. Please read the blog first, as this discussion follows it.

Read Martin's 'Should this site be closed for the recession?' Blog.

Click reply to discuss below.

simond_2

Definitely don't close it, as realistically, even if you do it'll just spur someone else to start an alternative site doing the same

skylight

Well, if you do close it, it would save most of us a spot of electricity - the PCs wont be on so much. Which in turn will help the environment!

Bills at MSE towers would go down as staff would not be wanted to run the site. All just before Christmas. People turfed out of their jobs.... Joe Public with no-where to go and they will become bored and ferral, just like the kids of today....

Do you want that Martin?? Do you????????!!!!

MSE_Martin

simond wrote: »

Definitely don't close it, as realistically, even if you do it'll just spur someone else to start an alternative site doing the same

Simond, don't worry I've no plans to close it... don't know if you read through the blog which explains why I write this. The title is very much tongue in cheek.

MattGaskin

Keep the site open but employ an editor to help with those troublesome apostrophes! ;-)
I'd be happy to take on that role...

“We live in an adversarial consumer society. A company's job is to screw us for cash, our job is to stop them. There’s nothing wrong with that, the problem is we’re out-gunned. Companies spend billions on advertising, marketing and teaching their staff to sell… we don’t get any buyers' training… I hope MoneySaving will help change that”

outof

Perhaps you should start a section called "Getting other people to stimulate the economy so I don't have to."

This makes very salient reading,
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/11/chinas-smoot-hawley.html

Ultimately, it doesn't matter whether we spend, the problems with the global economy are about an imbalance in trade. We've got to get China spending before we can dig ourselves out of this.

The jury is out on whether retail stimulus works, a true Keynsian approach would be big much needed infrastructure projects like micro/super grids, light rail networks and hydro batteries. Me buying a new sofa is not going to sort us out.

simond_2

MSE_Martin wrote: »

Simond, don't worry I've no plans to close it... don't know if you read through the blog which explains why I write this. The title is very much tongue in cheek.

Trust me, I read it and can understand the dilemma, I mostly said that to point out that now the site is around, if it did go then enough people (or businesses, as if! ) would want it back that something would turn up to fill the void

alsy01

Something I once read made the point that every penny you save is money that your bank can then use to give a loan to a business, and as a result savings are very important to keeping the economy going.

Since credit between institutions is currently very limited, isn't it even more important now to be saving money to save the economy?

dizzy_lizzie

Oh my golly, I nearly had kittens when I read that... then I read the blog. Should have done that first!
Luvz Dizzy x

Karmacat

Okay, you frightened the life out of me for about five minutes..... you're the only person writing about consumers thats trustworthy, Martin, in reality - because you've nailed your agenda to the wall. A journalist who's after a story isn't completely trustworthy, because their agenda is the story.

You're for the consumer in all their many colours - whether its people who actually are consuming, like the "cheap deals" stuff, or people who are in debt and need to rein back, sometimes dramatically.

I still reckon you should run the country.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Think of all the good this site and the programmes have done...Had everyone followed these principles there probably wouldn't be such a mess. It would have been wrong to keep quiet and then say 'well, I knew that you were all going to come unstuck in the end'.

Even now, you can help by providing advice on how to get out of the hole that many people have found themselves in.

I'd vote for you!!!!!!!!