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Originally posted by Craic View PostWhat are your assets? Cash, property, shares, cash?
Two of those. No shares or property at the moment.
Looking to get a property when they become less silly in price. If my cash doesn't evaporate via dodgy bank, BOE printing, or rampant inflation (yet only pittance paid in interest
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With the way sterling is devaluing I may as well put half my wad on red or black and save some time.
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What about buying gold or silver or some precious commodity? If there is going to be inflation these should soar.Originally posted by PAH View PostTwo of those. No shares or property at the moment.
Looking to get a property when they become less silly in price. If my cash doesn't evaporate via dodgy bank, BOE printing, or rampant inflation (yet only pittance paid in interest
) by then.
With the way sterling is devaluing I may as well put half my wad on red or black and save some time.
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If communications crash, killing of long distance trade, historically speaking, pepper is the right investment. At one time literally worth its weight in gold.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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As an investment, not to be sneezed at.Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostIf communications crash, killing of long distance trade, historically speaking, pepper is the right investment. At one time literally worth its weight in gold.
Didn't the Romans pay their soldiers in salt - which is the derivation of the word 'salary'?Comment
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