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why are all shares generally tanking? FTSE was 6800+ now 6500

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  • NorthFin
    NorthFin Posts: 192 Forumite
    What would have happened after USA eneded currency abuse if Japan did not take up the batton?

    The worlds currency supply has to keep expanding or the entire thing collapses. It will elad to hyperinflation eventually, but for now they have to fight off deflation.
  • The-Joker
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    ChopperST wrote: »
    If Nigeria can contain the virus then the developed world can. I hope the aid being sent to the African nations reaches the right places to improve the health care infrastructure so they have a chance of beating it too but only time will tell.

    Nigeria contained it by lying and telling everyone it was contained look now how many have ebola
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  • chucknorris
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Around 60% of the return from share investing comes from dividends and the reinvestment of. Totally different model to leveraging with debt with BTL.

    Why wasn't BTL a fad until 1998? What changed in the following decade that wasn't previously? There's a couple of questions I would be interested to hear your views on.



    It was the introduction of BTL mortgages in the mid 90's (about 1996 I think).
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  • Thrugelmir
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    chucknorris wrote: »
    It was the introduction of BTL mortgages in the mid 90's (about 1996 I think).

    Created by Bradford and Bingley. Their old BTL lending book now forms a large part of NRAM.
  • Pobby
    Pobby Posts: 5,438 Forumite
    I guess btl for a lot of punters has gone OK. My ex bro in law has done it. He is 55 and has put down a 35% deposit on a flat. He doesn`t own his own place. Profit after tax is around £450 per month. South east, so the 2 bedroom place was around £160,000. A rather better return than a traditional annuity.

    Now here is the bit. The rent is being paid by the government. Around £800 a month. So much for our loony housing policy.
  • Thrugelmir
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    Pobby wrote: »

    Now here is the bit. The rent is being paid by the government. Around £800 a month. So much for our loony housing policy.

    Same can be said of attitudes towards Government expenditure in general.
  • Aberdeenangarse
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    MFW_ASAP wrote: »
    Yes, I don't believe even bonds/gilts are safe at the moments. I'm waiting until the FTSE hits around the 5500 mark before I buy back into the market.

    Looks like you're going to be waiting a long time! :rotfl:
  • N1AK
    N1AK Posts: 2,903 Forumite
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    Aberdeenangarse wrote: »
    Looks like you're going to be waiting a long time! :rotfl:

    My portfolio has already increased in value (from before the small falls we just saw) by more than it had lost at the lowest point. I'd be ~£4k worse off if I'd sold at the very beginning of the fall than I am currently by not having sold.

    I'm also not dead, nor are the military killing people in the streets which is the kind of nonsense being predicted in here.
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  • pop_gun
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    TedButlerstheman wrote: »
    I did not mean level of debt I mean value.

    In deflation savings in cash go up in value in debt goes up in relation to everything else.

    So in this respect debt goes up.

    QE devalues the money in circulation. Cash is not king in that environment.
  • Generali
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    pop_gun wrote: »
    QE devalues the money in circulation. Cash is not king in that environment.

    How does it do that?
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