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FTSE down over 4%

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  • wotsthat
    wotsthat Posts: 11,325 Forumite
    I'm 0.052% up on this mornings purchase - I'll never be poor and humble again.
  • Pimperne1
    Pimperne1 Posts: 2,177 Forumite
    geneer wrote: »
    Don't you mean "flats"

    Two houses three flats.
  • pqrdef
    pqrdef Posts: 4,552 Forumite
    The_White_Horse wrote: »
    still, the benefit brigade have no fear. their income will remain on track.
    Yes, that's the wonderful thing about being at rock bottom, you can't get any lower.
    "It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis
  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    *sigh* you know the economy is in trouble when the German Prime minister decides to call the Pope up for a chat about the economy, so she can ask for some divine intervention.

    ( I had to make that joke)
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
  • The_White_Horse
    The_White_Horse Posts: 3,315 Forumite
    pqrdef wrote: »
    Yes, that's the wonderful thing about being at rock bottom, you can't get any lower.

    but they are not rock bottom.

    rock bottom are the paid workers that earn "too much" for benefits but get it all taxed away.

    the bottom feeders are far from rock bottom.
  • worldtraveller
    worldtraveller Posts: 14,013 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    edited 22 September 2011 at 7:16PM
    nearlynew wrote: »
    Let's see how long it is before someone mentions that pension funds will be affected as well as other investors ........

    Of course they will, but clearly they won't if they work in the public sector. But, hey, many of them will still go on strike later this year because they still 'just don't get it' and live on a completely different planet to the rest of society today! ;) It's not just the public sector though, it's the likes of MPs, many of whom are now retiring with 'pension pots' worth well over £1 million today, the pension being inflation linked for the rest of their lives, with tiny personal contributions during their working life. The vast majority is being paid for, and will continue to be paid by, the taxpayer.
    There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more...
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    US are calling for europe to stop the politics and just get on with the action that needs to take place.

    Which is amusing, considering they are wrangled in politics themselves.

    Everything seems to be falling though. Some metals down over 8%. Gold down 4%. Silver over 10%. Oil down over 7%. Apparently sterling vs the Yuan is a little worrying. Won't pretend to understand why.
  • 1984ReturnsForReal_2
    1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Apparently sterling vs the Yuan is a little worrying. Won't pretend to understand why.


    Chinese are holding all the cards


    And the money & the shares & the bonds & ...... Well, I bet you get the rest......
    Not Again
  • worldtraveller
    worldtraveller Posts: 14,013 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    I love it! Everyone blaming everyone else. The next step is protectionism. Mark my words!
    There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more...
  • 1984ReturnsForReal_2
    1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
    worldtraveller wrote: »
    I love it! Everyone blaming everyone else. The next step is protectionism. Mark my words!


    You missed that stop. Everyone is doing it apart from the UK who just passes money on to whoever pays it back in small brown envelopes
    Not Again
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