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Panorama "Feeling the Pinch" BBC1 20:30-21:00

Credit crunch, rising fuel prices and talk of recession - we've been warned of a tough year ahead. But how will we really be affected? Declan Curry discovers if we have what it takes to weather the storm of the global forces buffeting our economy.

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  • skintlass
    skintlass Posts: 1,326 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    That program was very scary especially to anyone wanting to sell.
    Never let your sucesses go to your head and never let your failures go to your heart.:beer:
  • mr.broderick
    mr.broderick Posts: 3,778 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Think it was a good show.
    The lady btl'er who invested up north didn't half get her fingers burnt, did feel the tiniest bit sorry for her though, especially with baby in hand.
  • daveyjp
    daveyjp Posts: 13,758 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Except Mr Broderick that was the Tonight programme with Jonathan Maitland and I for one had no sympathy for any of them.

    If they had been Arabs they would have bought a wagon load of sand, but only after the guy selling the sand had been given his £8,500 to give them the address of where the sand was being kept!

    All a bunch of greedy so and sos who know nothing about property, but congrats to Inside Track who have a brilliant business model.
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  • dean_ham
    dean_ham Posts: 277 Forumite
    daveyjp wrote: »
    Except Mr Broderick that was the Tonight programme with Jonathan Maitland and I for one had no sympathy for any of them.

    If they had been Arabs they would have bought a wagon load of sand, but only after the guy selling the sand had been given his £8,500 to give them the address of where the sand was being kept!

    All a bunch of greedy so and sos who know nothing about property, but congrats to Inside Track who have a brilliant business model.

    Yep i didnt feel sorry for them what so ever. How the hell do you make an investment of £140,000 with out even viewing the flat is unbeliveble. When they also said thet paid £8,500 to that company for "inside knowledge" i nearly fell off my chair laughing.
  • neas
    neas Posts: 3,801 Forumite
    lol, one born every day :)
  • Datasafe_2
    Datasafe_2 Posts: 155 Forumite
    dean_ham wrote: »
    Yep i didnt feel sorry for them what so ever. How the hell do you make an investment of £140,000 with out even viewing the flat is unbeliveble. When they also said thet paid £8,500 to that company for "inside knowledge" i nearly fell off my chair laughing.

    Lol financial darwinism like that caused the housing bubble to be formed in the first place.
  • mr.broderick
    mr.broderick Posts: 3,778 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    daveyjp wrote: »
    Except Mr Broderick that was the Tonight programme with Jonathan Maitland and I for one had no sympathy for any of them.

    If they had been Arabs they would have bought a wagon load of sand, but only after the guy selling the sand had been given his £8,500 to give them the address of where the sand was being kept!

    All a bunch of greedy so and sos who know nothing about property, but congrats to Inside Track who have a brilliant business model.

    Heavens was there more bear !!!!!! aswell on that i missed ? Damn...I love the brainwash stuff.
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