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Now Now Hamish you don't really believe their figures do you? It's like believing the unemployment figures are really accurate......Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones that let in the light
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Asheron
Butterfly Brain
Kohoutek
The three musketeers foil milleners.
You might as well add the Governor of the Bank of England to that list if you think criticising fractional reserve banking makes you a member of the tin foil hat brigade.
"[Academic Economist] Kotlikoff would drain the risk-taking out of commercial and investment banks, hedge funds, and insurance companies—turning them into boring, narrow intermediaries akin to mutual-fund firms. Instead of taking deposits and making loans, banks would connect borrowers and depositors with ultrasafe mutual funds created for those purposes. That would solve the problem of banks not keeping enough money in their vaults to pay depositors if they all wanted their money at once....
In Kotlikoff's biggest coup yet, Bank of England Governor Mervyn King—Britain's counterpart to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke—urged members of Parliament to study the plan."
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Butterfly_Brain wrote: »Now Now Hamish you don't really believe their figures do you? It's like believing the unemployment figures are really accurate......
According to some source, unemployment in America is 10%, so guessing U.S.A pop is 300 000 000, then unemployment is what 30 000 000.
UK pop 60 000 000. and only 5%, my a$$ is it 5%. I strongly believe it to be around 10%.
Never believe government 'offical' stats.Hi, we’ve had to remove your signature. If you’re not sure why please read the forum rules or email the forum team if you’re still unsure - MSE ForumTeam0 -
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data
This economist republishes official US statistics using the methods they used before 1990, when they started massaging the numbers a bit. Not pretty reading if do the comparisons!0 -
After that I believe they went back to saying that every single thing is f*cked and the only thing left to do is buy a f*cking sh*t load of gold.
Careful there Cleaver......
That self appointed guardian of morality, Nutrisse, is roaming the boards tonight.
On a one sadperson mission to banish impure thought and words from forums everywhere.;)“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
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People who are "gullible" enough to believe everything they read or see, posted by any unknown 'herbert' on the Intergoogle, calling anyone who believes anything they read or see produced by their elected Government gullible.
What a wonderful world Tim Berners-Lee invented for us all !!!! :eek:'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'0 -
Things will be a lot worse yet before they improve.
N.Never be afraid to take a profit.
Keep breathing. :eek:
Just because I am surrounded by FOOLS does not make me wise. :j0 -
That was almost as good as an episode of Dynasty except lacking shoulder pads.0
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