A sign of the times

[sasguru]

'Twas the death knell of feudalism.

Aye, and foreshadowed the modern economy ....

[The Spartan]

So buy British!

Also, as an exporter, the Pound taking a spanking is great for me

I do where possible, I was speaking in terms of things like oil and gas etc which has to be bought from abroad as we don't have enough of our own to be self sustaining. Say for instance Brent crude is $140 a barrel and the pound is falling against the dollar doesn't that mean we would pay more for the same product?

[eek]

I do where possible, I was speaking in terms of things like oil and gas etc which has to be bought from abroad as we don't have enough of our own to be self sustaining. Say for instance Brent crude is $140 a barrel and the pound is falling against the dollar doesn't that mean we would pay more for the same product?

yes but BP and Shell make bumper profits so it all evens out.

[OwlHoot]

During the Black Death so many people died, that wages rose.
My point is that in economic terms everything has a silver lining if you look for it.

Also it pretty much wiped out leprosy, because the price of firewood dropped and wool to make clothes, so it was cheaper to keep warm in winter, and peasants started kipping in their own beds instead of whole families and more snuggling up practically naked in the same bed which, believe it or not, many had done previously.