Banking regulations - ok

[TimberWolf]

Don't laugh. Farmers in some parts of the world cannot get the loans they need to plant crops. Linky: Bloomberg.

Loans to plant crops

It just goes to show how much the world is subsidised by cheap energy. Food is meant to be an energy source rather than a sink. It seem like the great technological revolutions of the past 100 years have been nothing more than fast ways of using up cheap energy reserves. Boomed.

[Bagpuss]

Something bad happens to Dot when nasty Nick returns to Eastenders

"Hello ma"

[BrilloPad]

What would andyw vote for?

[HairyArsedBloke]

Food shortage caused by the credit crisis.

Don't laugh. Farmers in some parts of the world cannot get the loans they need to plant crops. Linky: Bloomberg.

Go long* agricultural commodities.







* Usual disclaimer: don't take anything I post as being any form of investment advice, socks can go down as well as up, etc, etc, etc.

[NetwkSupport]

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Its all very well realising now that more should have been done to regulate the banks. That horse has bolted.

What, in your mind is the next big potential disaster that should receive a lot of focus right now ?

Brown saying he is going to spend our way out of the recession by putting forward billions of £ of projects to create jobs.... just another senseless policy.

[gingerjedi]

What, in your mind is the next big potential disaster that should receive a lot of focus right now ?

Global cooling.

[EternalOptimist]

Its all very well realising now that more should have been done to regulate the banks. That horse has bolted.

What, in your mind is the next big potential disaster that should receive a lot of focus right now ?