Financial Meltdown (The World)
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- Lichtgestalt
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Re: Financial Meltdown (The World)
Time to face the biggie and let them all go bankrupt. How much is gold at the moment?
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I blame the Germans
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We are already paying for them. I suggest that we get a few islands in return for our moneybaloo wrote:I blame the Germans
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See, the whole reason for the Euro was to get Germany the land it lost/never got in the twentieth century!
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there goes Portugal...
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You may have to use a combination of imagination and Google Translate on this, posted on FB by a Greek friend. World gone mad
http://do-it-like-pasxos.blogspot.com/2 ... -post.html
http://do-it-like-pasxos.blogspot.com/2 ... -post.html
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Nothing was posted on me by a Greek friend.
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Shame, I think you'd like my Greek friend, she's rather foxy.
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Re: Financial Meltdown (The World)
well, this has turned into an interesting day.
anyone care to make a prediction what will happen in the US when the market opens today? I'm predicting further sell-offs. Europe has big pain coming with Italy sliding ever closer to the abyss and Spain not far behind.
cash is still king...
anyone care to make a prediction what will happen in the US when the market opens today? I'm predicting further sell-offs. Europe has big pain coming with Italy sliding ever closer to the abyss and Spain not far behind.
cash is still king...
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Re: Financial Meltdown (The World)
Yeap Black Friday 2011 is here.
I can see the stockbrokers perching themselves on the window sills with a crowd of cheering onlookers chanting "Jump you f*ckers!" Only kidding but it is going to be a bloodbath!
BTW Cash is not king! Gold (or any other metal) is king!
I will predict the US Dollar will take a swan dive in the few weeks after the market collapse tho'.
I can see the stockbrokers perching themselves on the window sills with a crowd of cheering onlookers chanting "Jump you f*ckers!" Only kidding but it is going to be a bloodbath!
BTW Cash is not king! Gold (or any other metal) is king!
I will predict the US Dollar will take a swan dive in the few weeks after the market collapse tho'.
A conspiracy theory is just the truth not yet come to light
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I can't friggin believe it ! I have in my hand the letter I meant to fax my broker on Tuesday telling him to sell everything. He's been nagging me about it all week.
Thanks to sick cats and other crap going on, I never got around to it.
Thanks to sick cats and other crap going on, I never got around to it.
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oh no...
i just reread this whole thread, including the part where you and i agreed this could well be a 'dead-cat-bounce'...
interesting how some of the predictions worked out.
i just reread this whole thread, including the part where you and i agreed this could well be a 'dead-cat-bounce'...
interesting how some of the predictions worked out.
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there goes Europe...
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Warning really bad language...
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Re: Financial Meltdown (The World)
In 2008 it went to the bottom and was back up within a year or two, despite all the dramatic events. There's a lot of money in the US that needs to be invested in something (and it can't all be gold). Unless you're retiring in the next few years, I think it's best to just ride it out.Morrolan wrote:well, this has turned into an interesting day.
anyone care to make a prediction what will happen in the US when the market opens today? I'm predicting further sell-offs. Europe has big pain coming with Italy sliding ever closer to the abyss and Spain not far behind.
cash is still king...
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and there goes Italy...
it's like watching two supertankers collide: everyone knows it's going to happen 30 minutes in advance, but the time it takes the vessels to react to the rudder means no one can do anything about it.
it's like watching two supertankers collide: everyone knows it's going to happen 30 minutes in advance, but the time it takes the vessels to react to the rudder means no one can do anything about it.
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In case of Italy it means that they are going down with a bunga-bunga party. Interesting to see what the governments of Europe will come up with now. Italy is definitely a biggie.Morrolan wrote:and there goes Italy...
it's like watching two supertankers collide: everyone knows it's going to happen 30 minutes in advance, but the time it takes the vessels to react to the rudder means no one can do anything about it.
So far they have only been reacting and trying to re-establish the old situation in the financial markets... wondering when they actually will be pro-active and take some tough decisions and form new economic situations
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Re: Financial Meltdown (The World)
The entire global financial system is broken - or perhaps to be a tad more colorful - its totally fucked. Governments are doing their best to hold onto outdated broken models because there is nothing else.... What interesting times these are
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