US Government faces partial shutdown

Loughton_Monkey

grizzly1911 wrote: »

I wonder if they change the algorithm in this if the acorns do start falling.

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

If they did would we notice?

We probably wouldn't notice.

But I'd love such a clock for my personal finances. You know the sort of thing.....

• One dial linked to Nationwide, Zoopla, Land registry etc. that could tell me the exact price of my house minute by minute [should be about 14p a minute currently].
• Then my bank accounts would all be in there, savings clocking up the exact accrual for interest rate.
• Similar for my investments, linked 24 hours a day to trustnet, Stock Exchange etc...
• Tax liabilities, utilities, energy, phone etc. would all be linked to live usage in contracts so all my outstanding liabilities are known minute by minute.
• My Credit card, of course, would tick up debts minute by minute as Mrs LM (as she was today) goes about her normal business of lunching and shopping...
• Little microchips on my gin bottle, wine bottles, and tonic cans would all accrue to cost of consumption - including food in the fridge, my cigars etc.
• Car depreciation, of course, would be substantial and must be ticking along in some sort of reverse asymptotic pattern...

Right in the centre, of course, would be a nice big dial with a date on it. That would be the date at which I am going to run out of money.

If I'm still alive as the date approaches, I'm sure Osborne and Jeremy Hunt will be along with yet another new scheme - Help to Die.

chucknorris

chucky wrote: »

But I can predict and also guarantee that the Doomers will start a lot more threads.

I hope that they (world wide doomsters I mean) can talk the market down a few %, I wouldn't mind getting more cash into shares. I nearly went in yesterday (small) but held back. I'll be 50/50 if the market falls again today.

vivatifosi

For those of us with holidays to the US booked, the good news is that we are getting more dollars for our pounds.

The bad news is when we get there, none of the government owned tourist attractions will be open.

wotsthat

Bloomberg are the drama queens of the business world. Even they are sanguine - currently more interested in Theresa May's tartan trouser suit she wore at conference in a 'power play'. I have no idea what that means.

MacMickster

wotsthat wrote: »

I predict the sky won't fall today, tomorrow or the day after.

I believe that there are 17 days before the sky could fall in.

That's plenty of time for more posturing and grandstanding from the republicans and democrats alike, before eventually acting against their principles for the good of the old U.S. of A.

For stock market speculators (and potentially those government employees with an unexpected few days off) there is probably a good profit to be made during a period of market jitters.

Loughton_Monkey

wotsthat wrote: »

Bloomberg are the drama queens of the business world. Even they are sanguine - currently more interested in Theresa May's tartan trouser suit she wore at conference in a 'power play'. I have no idea what that means.

Nor do I. But according to Daily Mail, it cost £1,190 on top of the £215 for the shoes, and so she probably has her own budget deficit this month.

I'm guessing, but it seems reasonable to me that this is indeed a 'power play' in the form of trying to make herself attractive to Boris, with whom she would no doubt like a passionate affair, before running as a 'joint ticket' to oust Cameron just before the next election.

I think both have denied vigorously any ambitions to take over from Dippy Dave, so that probably proves it.

chucknorris

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

Nor do I. But according to Daily Mail, it cost £1,190 on top of the £215 for the shoes, and so she probably has her own budget deficit this month.

lol :rotfl:

chucky

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Robert Peston has suggested the partial shutdown will be serious

People should learn that the economic climate in the UK is in a better place than many, many other countries.

Imagine they lived in the US. The amount of moaning and frothing that they do complaining about the state of the UK economy already is amusing.

"other is grass on greener side" - feel free to re-arrange these words.

Sampong

Idea department proposal.

1) Carry on as normal until agreement is reached.

Generali

Sampong wrote: »

Idea department proposal.

1) Carry on as normal until agreement is reached.

At the moment it's a bit of a fuss about nothing: in 1995/6 the Government shut down for about 6-7 months IIRC and the sky didn't fall in.