Financial experts and lay persons

[Mich the Tester]

Why? Do you think you're God's gift, intellectually?

No, but calling someone thick is rather a weak sidestep away from providing rational argument and explanation, and thereby raises the suspicion that there is a lack of rational argument behind the insult.

[sasguru]

I don't know. The industry is quite opaque to me..

What industry? There's no such thing as the "financial industry". That's like saying the "medical industry".
If your thinking is so woolly (and clearly based on what you've read in the press), I'm afraid you will have to accept being called thick, until such time as you're more incisive.

HTH

[sasguru]

No, but calling someone thick is rather a weak sidestep away from providing rational argument and explanation, and thereby raises the suspicion that there is a lack of rational argument behind the insult.

See my post above.

[Mich the Tester]

What industry? There's no such thing as the "financial industry". That's like saying the "medical industry".
If your thinking is so woolly (and clearly based on what you've read in the press), I'm afraid you will have to accept being called thick, until such time as you're more incisive.

HTH

Quod erat demonstrandum.

[sasguru]

Quod erat demonstrandum.

Not really. I have given you an example of your woolly thinking.

HTH.

[TimberWolf]

Quod erat demonstrandum.

When AtW finally gets up, I'm sure he can explain it all. I don't know who posted under his name earlier.

[Arturo Bassick]

Monty Python - Argument Clinic - YouTube

[Mich the Tester]

Not really. I have given you an example of your woolly thinking.

HTH.

Well then forgive my woolly thinking. I am, after all, more knowledgeable in other matters, as many people are in this little congregation.

Tell us, how do you think this debt/decline/financial mayhem mess can be sorted out?

[sasguru]

Tell us, how do you think this debt/decline/financial mayhem mess can be sorted out?

Not easily. It requires a change in cultural mindset, which may be nigh-on-impossible for some, that you live within your means.
And if your means are meagre, you have to accept being poor and not "entitled" to what you want.
That applies to both individuals and countries.
But how can you reverse the "entitlement" mentality that has been prevalent in the West since the 2nd world war?

[oracleslave]

Tell us, how do you think this debt/decline/financial mayhem mess can be sorted out?

Is religion not the answer?

The Rioter's Prayer.

Our Father, who art in prison,
Mum doesn't know his name,
Rioting done,
...You'll read it in The Sun,
In Birmingham as it is in London.
Give us this day our dole money cheque,
And forgive us for rioting,
As we forgive those who give ASBOs against us.
Lead us not into employment,
But deliver us free housing.
For thine is smashed windows,
The plasmas and nicked computers,
For ever and ever,
Innit.