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The Greatest Depression Under Way
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Is it only me, or do other people think that the woman in the picture has an air of nobility about her?
It's what makes it such a compelling photo IMOMy Debt Free Diary I owe:
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I just had a look at the 'Trends Research Institute' website. It advertises itself as being useful to corporate clients. Then a bloke (presumably their guru) appeared in a corner saying that the sub prime crisis was indicitive of the foundations cracking in the economy and that the whole edifice would collapse like the world trade centre. I am afraid I can't plan my personal situation to take account of this disaster scenario, not sure how his corporate clients can either. Call it scare mongering if you will or just a rather pessismistic analysis of the problems we face, I don't know, but am carrying on with my life anyway.0
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Did he really say that if the Yanks drop interest rates then the USD will drop through the floor?
Gerald Celente: Dollar will Fall 90 Percent
His predictions for the first few months of last year
We are confronting “dollar plummeting hysteria, monumental levels of debt, foreclosure, bankruptcy, unemployment, energy depletion, skyrocketing gas and food prices, illnesses treated without health insurance coverage—or just not treated, unprecedented levels of homelessness, and by all indications, within a few months into 2008
Worth a look
http://blogs.computerworld.com/fox_news_obama_gloom'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 Thatcher0 -
MyLastFiver wrote: »Forgive my ignorance but why should we give a t0ss if stock markets lose value? People who own shares accept that they could lose the value of their investment. And if my house plummets in value so will everyone else's, so it doesn't matter. And if currencies become unviable I'll be paying for goods in chocolate, whisky and cigarettes
PENSIONS:cool:It is nice to see the value of your house going up'' Why ?
Unless you are planning to sell up and not live anywhere, I can;t see the advantage.
If you are planning to upsize the new house will cost more.
If you are planning to downsize your new house will cost more than it should
If you are trying to buy your first house its almost impossible.0 -
MyLastFiver wrote: »And if currencies become unviable I'll be paying for goods in chocolate, whisky and cigarettes
Why would trade them, it's all you need to live on!After years of disappointment with get-rich-quick schemes, I know I'm gonna get rich with this scheme...and quick! - Homer Simpson0 -
I am told that back in the 90s the prostitutes in St Petersburg would do it for a pack of Marlboro...My Debt Free Diary I owe:
July 16 £19700 Nov 16 £18002
Aug 16 £19519 Dec 16 £17708
Sep 16 £18780 Jan 17 £17082
Oct 16 £178730 -
MyLastFiver wrote: »I am told that back in the 90s the prostitutes in St Petersburg would do it for a pack of Marlboro...
I my area of Manchester they currently do it for a pack of Superkings...0 -
I my area of Manchester they currently do it for a pack of Superkings...
What! a full pack :eek:'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 Thatcher0 -
What! a full pack :eek:
Only if they're old enough to develop a 20 a day habit...
Whatever happens to the financial climate it's not going to just stop (unless it's that bad and we are trading in whisky and chocs) so everyone will just going to have to ride it out and hope we've prepared sufficiently. I've found most of the articles written seem to have a lot of scaremongering in them.0
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