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    Crash is on its way

    https://www.bullionbypost.co.uk/gold...fter-northern/

    Doom™

    Maybe.
    First Law of Contracting: Only the strong survive

    #2
    A crash is on its way. However it might take 30 weeks or 30 years.

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      #3
      Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
      A crash is on its way. However it might take 30 weeks or 30 years.
      It's difficult to make predictions.

      Especially about the future.
      First Law of Contracting: Only the strong survive

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        #4
        Originally posted by _V_ View Post
        It's difficult to make predictions.

        Especially about the future.
        Economists have predicted 23 of the last 6 crashes. Except 2008.....

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          #5
          Originally posted by _V_ View Post
          It's difficult to make predictions. Especially about the future.
          The best way to predict the future is the invent it.

          Alan Kay (1971)



          Otherwise an artificial trigger results and everyone goes 'we din't see that coming'. We should have done an Iceland and let the banks fail and capitalism preside.
          "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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            #6
            Originally posted by _V_ View Post
            It's difficult to make predictions.

            Especially about the future.
            I will make a prediction about the future. When the crash comes, and there will be a crash in the future, be it 30 weeks or 30 years, you can be absolutely certain that there will be people very loudly blaming Brexit.

            Remember, people blamed Gordon Brown for the total and complete meltdown of the global financial system in 2007/2008. Quite impressive he had that power.
            Taking a break from contracting

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              #7
              Originally posted by chopper View Post
              I will make a prediction about the future. When the crash comes, and there will be a crash in the future, be it 30 weeks or 30 years, you can be absolutely certain that there will be people very loudly blaming Brexit.

              Remember, people blamed Gordon Brown for the total and complete meltdown of the global financial system in 2007/2008. Quite impressive he had that power.
              Actually they didn't blame him per-se. What they did do was vilify the useless jock bastard for spending just about every penny he could find for no benefit, chaining us to ******* calamitous Private Finance Initiatives, selling the gold by announcing his intentions to the market so they could screw us and basically ensured that at the point we needed some money in our coffers to solve the ******* huge tsunami that had just engulfed us, we had NOTHING...
              Last edited by bobspud; 3 August 2017, 07:39.

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                #8
                Originally posted by bobspud View Post
                Actually they didn't blame him per-se. What they did do was vilify the useless jock bastard for spending just about every penny he could find for no benefit, chaining us to ******* calamitous Private Finance Initiatives, selling the gold by announcing his intentions to the market could screw us and basically ensured that at the point we needed some money in our coffers to solve the ******* huge tsunami that had just engulfed us, we had NOTHING...
                He stuffed the economic cycle by reducing interest rates too far thus making sure the boom was far worse than it should have been.

                Now interest rates are way too low. 2008 will look like a picnic compared to the next crash. The question is how long the can will be kicked down the road.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by chopper View Post
                  I will make a prediction about the future. When the crash comes, and there will be a crash in the future, be it 30 weeks or 30 years, you can be absolutely certain that there will be people very loudly blaming Brexit.
                  No. They will be blaming those who voted Brexit. Well blame is the wrong word. They will be loving it. They are desperate to be proved right.

                  They should all be sent to Syria and the UK can take Syrian immigrants in return.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by bobspud View Post
                    Actually they didn't blame him per-se. What they did do was vilify the useless jock bastard for spending just about every penny he could find for no benefit, chaining us to ******* calamitous Private Finance Initiatives, selling the gold by announcing his intentions to the market so they could screw us and basically ensured that at the point we needed some money in our coffers to solve the ******* huge tsunami that had just engulfed us, we had NOTHING...
                    Actually the UK did not have that much gold before Gordon sold it. It would have made feck all difference in the credit bubble - George boy would still have QE'd the pound into the ground.

                    As for PPI, remarkably UK government is doing it again with EDF and Chinese contractors building power stations - you will pay for being useless.


                    "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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