The market is gathering momentum.

HammerSmashedFace

Jonbvn wrote: »

Your pasta mountain aside, I wish I had your confidence regarding what is likely to happen in the future, whether good or bad. Are there set templates for the end of civilisation like that guy on HPC use to have in his signature?

Did you mean Daddy Bear and his hyper-inflation template ?, if so yeh I remember seeing that. As for a template for my future predictions, no I wouldn't do one. I'm am certain of our outcome, but how we get there ?, I'm not so sure.

The issue is, is my ramblings are fairly apocalyptic and if they come to fruition, we (the general public) will be last to know because of panic (do you think we would ever know if an asteroid was about to hit ?, the answer is no). Man made global warming for instance to me is code for peak oil, a sort of softly-softly approach so as not to cause too much alarm.

Do you really think we would be spending money on 6000+ wind turbines out at sea just so Bangledesh doesn't flood ?, or a few polar bears starve ? I don't think so.

The four horsemen of the apocalypse are readying their saddles.:D

HammerSmashedFace

nollag2006 wrote: »

Nice one Conrad - looks like the sky never did fall in.

Good thing the market has recovered so strongly over the past 11 months

I lol'ed at this, the sky hasn't fell in on the housing market yet, but the temporary struts are creaking, won't be long now.

StevieJ

Jonbvn wrote: »

Your pasta mountain aside, I wish I had your confidence regarding what is likely to happen in the future, whether good or bad. Are there set templates for the end of civilisation like that guy on HPC use to have in his signature?

I suppose every cloud and all that, HSF and amcluesent don't need to worry about a pension

StevieJ

Conrad wrote: »

The Halifax figures this morning seem to indicate the market is indeed regaining some momentum.

Can't believe I didn't thank you at the time, I suppose I was still recovering from your conversion from bear to bull

StevieJ

HammerSmashedFace wrote: »

Do you really think we would be spending money on 6000+ wind turbines out at sea just so Bangledesh doesn't flood ?, or a few polar bears starve ? I don't think so.

The four horsemen of the apocalypse are readying their saddles.:D

Expect to see more of that as oil becomes uneconomic and is only used when essential, no NIMBY protests IF it ever did become a critical situation.

The Crown Estate today announced nine sites around Britain for wind power generation with the aim of producing up to 32 gigawatts - enough to power 20 million homes - from 6,400 offshore turbines.

Conrad

HammerSmashedFace wrote: »

Do you really think we would be spending money on 6000+ wind turbines out at sea just so Bangledesh doesn't flood ?, or a few polar bears starve ? I don't think so.

The four horsemen of the apocalypse are readying their saddles.:D

This demonstrates a very closed mind. Classic tin hat mentaility:D

Your brain has filtered out the fundamentals to fit your somewhat cynical view of the world.

For one thing Bangladesh going under water could devasted many Human lives, for another many of us view the Polar bears as symbolic but nothing like the totality of the argument.

The point about the bears is that there may not be another creature like it for trillions upon trillions of miles in any direction from Earth.
We hang here like a tiny oasis in the vast emptyness.
It is encumbent on us as top predator to safeguard other beings and no further justification is required.

However, there is tons more justification if you want it; Aiming to preserving the Earths ecosystems as would be if we were not here, would be a start.

If delicate systems such as the gulf stream are tipped out of balance, it could be a one way ticket to mass destruction. Can we take the chance?

Caring for other species is'nt about being fulffy and tree hugging, it's the mark of civilisation.

As for burning compressed organic material - it's just plain dirty and we need to address declining stocks anyhow.

Before you say it, yes yes, I know the Romans grew grapes on Hadrians wall, but this does no heavy lifting when we take account of the speed of trend warming in the last 100 years, thats THE point.

Conrad

HammerSmashedFace wrote: »

I lol'ed at this, the sky hasn't fell in on the housing market yet, but the temporary struts are creaking, won't be long now.

Nothing is creaking. We're entering a pre - boom phase.

Have you noticed that us the yanks and the Germans are taking back manufacturing process' from the Far East btw?

Low rates - and remaining historically low despite inflationary pressures on the horizon.

Property the new pension for most Jo Blows that won't trust city boys to invest for them.


Rising population.

Immense wealth percolating down from the baby boomers to thier offspring.

UK plc providing much to the world - don;t see many chinese films, don't hear much chinese music, don't see a lot of chinese innovation (crucial point)

TAX - nothing to concern us. Ok so we all have to pay a few hundred more in Taxes for a few years. Big deal - we paid for WW2 on the back of a depression !!!!!!, and after the war mass building and a boom followed despite the deficit.
The world does'nt end
We don't roll over and die
We adapt and we make good