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Sterling to get abused even more?

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  • The Bank has already injected £375bn into the economy through QE, the largest monetary stimulus of any developed country as a proportion of GDP. Sir Mervyn King, the outgoing Governor, has called for another £25bn for the last two months – but has been outvoted by his fellow policymakers.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/9981600/Billions-of-pounds-of-QE-unlikely-to-cause-inflation-IMF.html

    Come on what difference will another £250000000000 make?

    Everyone knows the new head of the BOE Mark Carney is going to turn up the currency abuse to make Merv look like an amateur groaper .

    Mark Carney is going to be an abuser to rival Jimmy Savile. Just like the BBC let Savile get away with it for decades, the BOE will be allowed to get away with far more serious abuse that will affect more children's futures.
  • dryhat
    dryhat Posts: 1,305 Forumite
    Bitcoin up £25 overnight.

    ... now trading at £158 each.
  • Are you going to take any profits here?
  • dryhat
    dryhat Posts: 1,305 Forumite
    edited 10 April 2013 at 9:59AM
    Are you going to take any profits here?

    No, but I do wish I waited until now to sell the 15 that I sold last week.

    I could have made an extra £900.

    I won't be cashing in or spending the 5 I have left though since they effectively cost nothing.

    I've got nothing to lose so I'm going to stay along for the ride.
    It's very exciting.

    Who knows when or where this will end?
  • andy.m_2
    andy.m_2 Posts: 1,521 Forumite
    £163, crazy, just crazy.

    Glad I got in when I did.
    Sealed pot challange no: 339
  • dryhat
    dryhat Posts: 1,305 Forumite
    andy.m wrote: »
    £163, crazy, just crazy.

    Glad I got in when I did.

    You liar...


    It's £164

    :beer:
  • dryhat wrote: »
    Bitcoin up £25 overnight.

    ... now trading at £158 each.

    Its very hard to catch the top on the way up, but very easy to miss it on the way down
  • dryhat wrote: »
    No, but I do wish I waited until now to sell the 15 that I sold last week.

    I could have made an extra £900.

    I won't be cashing in or spending the 5 I have left though since they effectively cost nothing.

    I've got nothing to lose so I'm going to stay along for the ride.
    It's very exciting.

    Who knows when or where this will end?

    How do you go about declaring it for cap gains? Its all private isnt it?
  • dryhat
    dryhat Posts: 1,305 Forumite
    edited 10 April 2013 at 10:49AM
    Its very hard to catch the top on the way up, but very easy to miss it on the way down

    Very true.
    And it's easy to become too greedy.

    I thought it would top out at about £100, hence my selling.

    This further climb to £160 has taken me by surprise really.

    With lots of big money looking for a home in the wake of recent events and joining in, who knows where it could end.

    Bitcoin actually could be the real deal and a credible alternative to our current system.
  • IzzyFreedman
    IzzyFreedman Posts: 79 Forumite
    edited 12 April 2013 at 9:53AM
    Backing from a central authority is no backing at all. You are talking about fiat currencies they are just as unbacked as bitcoin.
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