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I regret to say Retief is absolutely correct. Carry on as normal and it looks like it will be another wasted account

There's an upside to new tech wonders and a downside That sell-off last Thursday when the S&P 500 went down 100+ points was apparently due to new automated trading ! With new tech comes new problems too. If 1 system can do 1000s of trades a second it may take years to sort out

Sure there will be techno breakthroughs but the sad fact remains companies like Ford etc will have to produce mundane products ever cheaper/better quality to sell onto an international market. The West must adapt and compete or its game over on an ever slippery down slope imho

A good way to evaluate a coutry is by its culture and manners nuff said America ? (oh yeah go on - call up Batman !! ) lol you reap what you sow on this planet and the crappy US "culture" that has spread like a virus around the world has its limitations - especially greed Not that...

I read somewhere the US currency is the easiest of the major currencies to forge and the Russian mafia has printing presses going full tit printing notes. Maybe I should run myself up a million or 2. Better make it a billion or 2 while we are at it. If widow Twankey can why not me too ...

Looks like the damage caused by profligate political parties is fast catching up. So now we all have to suffer - just great !! To all those fools who voted in socialist give-aways and liberal over spending, rioting and threats of violence is their next step besides blaiming others. Tough...

The Greeks shouldn't be bailed out They will never pay off their debts and if others keep catching them when they fall they will never learn to be self sufficient. There should be a "fire sale" auction and enough assets sold off to pay for their extravegant living. Tough but fair and a...

That's the basic trouble with Democracy - the politicians have to promise more and more to get elected and the state gets less and less. Until the "garden of Eden" becomes a dung heap. They will look to their friends to help them out until their patience is exhausted. Personally I wouldn't...

There's 3 parts to the problems of Greece imho 1. Have a 2nd class euro for the PIIG countries. This would be devalued until the losers decide to pull their fingers out of their posteriors and do some work. 2. Hope that some foreigners will arrive ( like the 7th cavalry ) and buy up...

I think they rather gave up once the Romans beat them up a while back ? Started well tho

Is that before or after their 2 hour siesta ?

Another Socialist government bankrupts the country it was elected to serve. Also Brown has very nearly done Britain in with their left wing nonsense. The Left are too hopeless with their 19th century philosophical nonsense The Right are dominated by greedy pigs coining it in for themselves...

True Capitalism grew in USA in the twenties in the absence of the liquor industry. Prohibition. The Mafia got rich. Ironically made by do-gooding anti-drink people. With evangelist enthusiasm they banned alchohol sales not realizing the monsters they were creating. Much of the anti crime...

The only goal of Capitalism is making more and more money. It doesn't care who suffers or the end results. It is callous to an extreme. The law of the semi civilized jungle. Surely people are more important. This is THE fundamental fact that the West just can't get its head around. Noone...

er on the same gravy train ? Punishment ! What punishment ? A year or two in a comfy cell with en suite facilities and a chance to meet up with all their old mates ? Swap stories no doubt. And that's only IF they get caught. Why does one get the feeling it's only the tip of the iceberg...

Some good points you have raised Ghost An old problem of who regulates the regulators Perhaps we need an integrity index. Anyone below 50% doesn't get considered for the job ? Must say if I was on millions per year I wouldn't be stufffing up my job/career by pocketing even more illegally.

Unfortunately there is the human factor - which is greed and criminality. One drives the other. Anywhere there are billions of $s, £s etc. just sloshing about, then the the dishonest, get-rich-at-any-cost etc. sort of people will be drawn in. There have to be imho regulations to curb their...

The Icelanders are paying off with c-ASH keep smoking boys

It just goes to show what a load of crooks the USA is full of ( allegedly )

Two CIA agents fall in love and decide to get married. At the marriage ceremony the preacher asks "Do you Hank take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife ? " The guy responds " Sorry Sir, that is classified information."