Originally posted by bogeyman
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ATW's 10 points plan to solve the global financial crisis
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Originally posted by AtW View PostWhat I think is that if my rules were in force when you were illegally drinking cheap cider you'd crap your pants after a night in jail and go straight after that - no more cider drunk, or else you'd die in jail. Both alternatives are fine by me
I DIE IN JAIL THEN BOSS !
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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Originally posted by AtW View PostWhat I think is that if my rules were in force when you were illegally drinking cheap cider you'd crap your pants after a night in jail and go straight after that - no more cider drunk, or else you'd die in jail. Both alternatives are fine by me
I DIE IN JAIL THEN BOSS
(sorry dupe)
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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Originally posted by Marina View PostYes, and being ex-blacksmiths and potters and so on, the guys who designed the first "clever machines" and planned the mills and factories and build the railways and canals wouldn't have got far if there hadn't been rich landowners and investors to lend them money at interest (which they wouldn't have been allowed to do in an Islamic country BTW).
As railways were built a number of these were constructed of the remains of non profit making canals (i.e. most of them). Then there was a bunch of problems in raising the finance, after all the investors had got their fingers burnt were showing some reluctance. However they were eventually persuaded "it's different this time". So they got royally fleeced. Again.
As ever caveat emptor, but it was only the availability of that risk capital that brought general prosperity to all.Comment
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Originally posted by ASB View PostAs ever caveat emptor, but it was only the availability of that risk capital that brought general prosperity to all.Comment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostFine. What let's look at what current "high risk capital" is doing - do they invest into railways? Nano-tech? Space tech? No - they invest into junk stuff like loans to people who can't afford to repay them after fixed period of cheap rates elapses. What prosperity can possibly happen from that "investment"? None. Zero. Nil. Property bubble is what driven economies in the last decade.
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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Originally posted by bogeyman View PostAnd as the day wore on, AtW sounded more and more like that tedious old swindler in the Turkish bazzar who tried to sell you a fake Rolex that felt lighter than a fun-size Mars bar.Comment
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Originally posted by AtW View Postthis bubble is totally pointless
I'm going to make a rap song from all my favorite comments on CUK.
I have a rough working draft: -
this bubble is totally pointless
this bubble is totally pointless
this bubble is totally pointless (chakkaboom)
this bubble is totally pointless
this bubble is totally pointless
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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AtW, if there had been more small investors in Russia you wouldn't have had that carve up which left a handful of oligarchs so rich like a bunch of medievil barons (much to your disgust I seem to recall).Comment
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AtW, your definition of speculation is flawed (all investment is really speculation).
Come up with a better defined example of what you want banned, then take some pills if you ever think it will happen."See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."Comment
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