Could this be the start of the big one?

mystic_trev

I'll agree with that statement when Jonathan Davis starts advising people to invest in Property!;)

MacMickster

michaels wrote: »

Jeesh - I have always seen myself as a bit of an Eeyore seeing doom and gloom everywhere but you guys beat me by far. Lately the signs are that apart from in Europe the global economy is improving and yet some commentators seem to want to cast arround to see exactly where the next bad news might come from.

Personally I am more worried that I may have missed the boat on getting a low long mortgage fix than that the next stage of financial armageddon is going to sweep over us.

I do think that despite all of the interventions we have done little more than keep the economy flatlining. The problems with the Euro have merely been kicked along the road (and I'm sure that we'll catch up with them soon). With the booming BRICS now apparently approaching a bust, and our ammunition to try to fire up the economy seeming pretty inneffective, I wouldn't worry too much about missing the bottom of the market for mortgage rates.

It will be interesting to see what Carney makes of the current situation when he gets his feet under the table.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

wotsthat wrote: »

So your commentator with no name got it wrong on housing (he would've got away with it too if it hadn't been for the pesky 'props')..

Ahhh, the ever popular "Scooby Doo" excuse.

michaels

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Ahhh, the ever popular "Scooby Doo" excuse.

Next..chewbacca defense?

Graham_Devon

michaels wrote: »

Next..chewbacca defense?

Why would I need any defence? I wrote something 3 years ago. It's now coming through to fruition. Some of you lot don't like it.

Didn't like it 3 years ago either, when it was all just doom mongering and things would just turn out peachy.

michaels

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Why would I need any defence? I wrote something 3 years ago. It's now coming through to fruition. Some of you lot don't like it.

Didn't like it 3 years ago either, when it was all just doom mongering and things would just turn out peachy.

Graham...there was no reference to you, I was just continuing on from McTs Scooby Do joke. Sorry on an internet forum you will get the odd frivolous post a per pros of nothing really and not something you need to take personally.

RenovationWoman

OffGridLiving wrote: »

I really dont want to get involved in any of that stuff. Life is far too short.

:beer::beer::beer::beer::beer:

OffGridLiving

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Why would I need any defence? I wrote something 3 years ago. It's now coming through to fruition. Some of you lot don't like it.

Didn't like it 3 years ago either, when it was all just doom mongering and things would just turn out peachy.

I might be wrong, but I think people are disputing the existence rather than the content of your post? It's very easy to do searches on internet forums to find old posts, and so you can easily prove your point.

OffGridLiving

michaels wrote: »

Graham...there was no reference to you, I was just continuing on from McTs Scooby Do joke. Sorry on an internet forum you will get the odd frivolous post a per pros of nothing really and not something you need to take personally.

People do seem to take offense quite easily in here, there isn't the 'easy banter' that you find in other forums.

A while back I made a joke about Thrugelmir's short sentences in a particular post (which he received in good grace) but someone else took offence for him. I guess the difference was that I had a bit of history with Thrugelmir as we'd been on a couple of previous threads agreeing with each others points and so Thrugelmir knew my post was meant kindly, whereas the other poster who took offence, didn't?

It's difficult to get humour across sometimes in textual format, but perhaps a few necks need to be pulled in too?

ILW

There is an argument that if rates here and across Europe had increased in the early 2000s, the whole crash could have been avoided.