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Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People
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Pensions should be taken with a pinch of salt, remember a similar type of product where investing in stocks and shares was supposed to bring better returns than paying down the mortgage..it was called an endowment :eek:
Similarly with a pension, due to its inflexiblity you are most at risk of the govt changing the rules and makig the investment worht less than originally anticipated. It is not unkown for govs to nationalise private pension pots and would anyone rule out the state pension becoming means tested or the 25% lump sum being taxed?I think....0 -
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Similarly with a pension, due to its inflexiblity you are most at risk of the govt changing the rules and makig the investment worht less than originally anticipated. It is not unkown for govs to nationalise private pension pots and would anyone rule out the state pension becoming means tested or the 25% lump sum being taxed?
That's always been on the back of my mind.:( I think Hungary snaffled private pensions not so long ago. My main beef with pensions is the goal post moving that successive governments do, hence my reluctance to throw more in the pot.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »I suppose I remember some of the execution-era stuff, and the whole orphanages thing (I must have been about 10 at the time, or a little older) but nothing really from before that.
I have visited it - on the whole, and in contrast to the rest of the country, Bucharest is pretty ugly, I thought!
Always led? What about places such as Kerala, in India? I think that's had more or less constant communist state government since independence, pretty much, without deaths or gulags.
I never visited Romania and have never even been tempted to do so. I gather it was so badly mismanaged that went from being Europe's main oil producer (they used to offer cheap petrol to tourists) to becoming one of the poorest states in Europe as their oil was squandered.
India's interesting . Its constitution declares it to be socialist but its democratic credentials are strong enough to contain communist and mixed-economy regions in harmony. At one stage, it and Israel were the only two multi-party democracies in the whole of the Asian mainland.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
Ok, anyone know why l o v e is now banned on Mse?
Its free, you'd think it would be popular round these parts?0 -
Lovely
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sure you didn't spell it wrong?“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
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lostinrates wrote: »Its been going wrong all over the forum. For loadsa peeps. And, reported, sale.
Seems fixed now.
Ah... fingeritis from the sound of it. As in
Technical Expert : Oh, I had a really hard night partying last night. I'll do an easy job.
tap tap tap
Technical Expert : There, that's done. Now, let's text Sarah in accounts
tap tap tap
Phone rings... off camera conversation
Technical Expert : Damn, wrong box!“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
I never visited Romania and have never even been tempted to do so. I gather it was so badly mismanaged that went from being Europe's main oil producer (they used to offer cheap petrol to tourists) to becoming one of the poorest states in Europe as their oil was squandered.
India's interesting . Its constitution declares it to be socialist but its democratic credentials are strong enough to contain communist and mixed-economy regions in harmony. At one stage, it and Israel were the only two multi-party democracies in the whole of the Asian mainland.
A taxi driver once told me that the only democratically elected Jews in the Middle East outside Israel were in Iran and the only democratically elected Arabs outside Iran were in Israel. That was about 10 years ago so no elections at the time in Lebanon or Iraq.0
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