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The last of the funk powered trains...

It's nearly official. We're depressed.

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Yup, it's true. It seems like later today it will be announced that we really are finally in a state of depression, which may come as a shock to all those convinced that we already were. Gosh, maybe it's the way they calculate what a depression really is that's wrong. What I don't quite get is all these people broadcasting that Britain's depression is going to be soooo much worse than anyone else's, yet most of the rest of the world is already in depression and we're only just getting there. Sort of like flogging a dead horse without telling the horse it's dead...

What I want to know is, where is all the money? The amount of dosh that's disappeared from the world's economy can't just be stored under anyone's matress, not unless they're really really big people; it must have gone somewhere, who's been seen wandering around town with several large heavy suitcases? I suspect the 2nd world have it. I've often wondered who and where they are and now I know, they're right there where all the money's gone.

You know how I hate to say "I told you so", but I do believe that I told someone at some time that if you let idiots like Thatcher destroy your manufacturing base you're only asking for trouble, never mind that other idiot, Digby Whatever, saying that now we can do what Britain does best and add value to products brought (Maybe that should be 'Bought') in from abroad. If we do that our money goes out of the country and none comes back in, and it doesn't take the foreign manufacturers long to work out what value we're adding and start building it in for themselves.

Surely any idiot can work out that if you buy all your goods from China and India there's eventually going to be no money left in the country?

Is it time for the revolution yet? rolleyes

...and I'm telling you, I don't ******* swear.... (Unless there's a really good reason for it... Like maybe, FOOTBALL).Here comes the su - u-uuuuuu.... snow????

Comments

glenno Friday, January 23, 2009 3:12:09 AM

I sometimes think that the unions stuffed up UK manufacturing and Maggie stuffed the unions after the event...
Probably that money didnt disappear, it was never there in the first place, just bits of electronic paper money travelling sooo fast that it took a while for it all to catch up, a bit like the famous Wacky Wacky bird in its ever decreasing circles. Still, at least the UK gets the best depression that money can buy lol

Redshigen Wednesday, January 28, 2009 5:03:56 PM

DON'T make me sing ANy of the maaaaany many song sI know with that buzzword in them.....p

Last year my history class did a thing on economics.

thje money's not gone; not REALLY.

It's sill there, just worth less. (Meh, say the word both ways: 'worth less' and 'worthless'. Same thing.....awww)

Now, I can;t remember much of it, and Rei's useless (Even though he's studying it RIGHT NOW...), but, it's something like, if people just ignored that you are in a depression and still spent on the things that they used to, then that would gear up the econmy agan and began to dig us out.

The money's still there; it's just hiding.

People need it to pay their bills... which is why the 'economic stimulus packages' in my country were useless: People wouldn't sfford to use it on the econmy. Too many peopl are in debt.

I remember Taka going off on how wrong it is that my country LIVES on debt. He said he could go to the bank, take out a loan, and hop the border!! And no one would even know until it was too late!!!

We thrive on 'credit cards'. Little pieces of plastic that allow us to individually accrue monstrous amounts of debt.

If you think about it...

If people didn;t use credit cards anymore, just cash, then they would know right away just how much they were really spending. (Add up the intrest, too...)

My mom read those Shopaholic books (they're now a movie, I ehar) and when I saw the ads I asked her about it...

A lot more people do that then you prolly think......sad

What's the world coming to......?

Deke Friday, January 30, 2009 2:57:21 AM

I think the theory goes like this. A company sells a million shares at a dollar each. They now have a million dollars. The company does well and other people want to buy the shares, but the people who have them won't sell so the people who want them offer more. Soon the shares are worth a hundred dollars each, but the company doesn't have a hundred million dollars, they still just have the original million. The other 99 mil is imaginary money unless someone actually sells a share or two, and then it's them that get the money, the company still has just the original money.

Likewise if the company doesn't do so well people try to sell the shares, but others won't buy them, so eventually the price drops to just one cent a share, but the company still has it's original million.

Basically the stock market trades on imaginary money. No one's printed more cash, the real money's still out there, going the rounds.

glenno Friday, January 30, 2009 10:55:32 PM

I wish it was under my bed...

Redshigen Saturday, January 31, 2009 12:30:36 AM

lol

Okay.

Yours makes lots more sense than mine. p I was just talking circularly, hunh? ......knockout

glenno Saturday, January 31, 2009 1:48:00 AM

Its still a great big merry (money) go round..except it falls over if someone jumps off lol

Deke Saturday, January 31, 2009 3:16:22 AM

I watched that programme about the 1929 crash the other night, and the similarities are astounding.

Apart from the people jumping out of windows bit...

glenno Saturday, January 31, 2009 3:58:45 AM

Wait, it shall come...scared

Redshigen Saturday, January 31, 2009 12:14:09 PM

Sadly, it prolly WILL come if it gets much worse.

Honestly, though, I thought it was only my country... I hadn't heard it was that bad in England, too.....awww

glenno Saturday, January 31, 2009 2:49:53 PM

Totally international, atleast its not racist yikes

Redshigen Sunday, February 1, 2009 2:19:56 AM

Because not being racist makes a global depression sooooooo much better.......rolleyes

p

glenno Sunday, February 1, 2009 2:24:38 AM

Politically correct depression, its just sooo modern, not like those nasty 1900's ones lol

Redshigen Sunday, February 1, 2009 3:47:50 AM

Indeed. If it weren't trendy it never would've caught on... bigsmile;;

glenno Sunday, February 1, 2009 7:34:44 PM

Perhaps I am truly warped but i just got this picture in my mind..its all starting to sound like the clothes industry, can you imagine "this years depression" strutting down the cat walk?

Redshigen Monday, February 2, 2009 2:41:13 AM

Oh, God, yeeh. I can see it......bigeyes;; It'd be one of those Abercrombie outfits that only fit a size zero. lol

THAT'S why everyone's got no money!! You've hit it on the head: They spend it on those way-too-expensive-75-bucks-for-a-ripped-tee-shirt-clothes!!! (Rip it YOURSELF... p)

It seems like that's all the kids at my school buy. yuck

glenno Monday, February 2, 2009 4:21:34 AM

Of course, next year will be a whole new look, in fact we could have really trendy seasonal depressions..autumns black is in fact blue, and the balance sheet is sooo red bigeyes

Redshigen Tuesday, February 3, 2009 3:52:35 AM

Lol!

...I see the birth of a new market... It's so fashionable, that half the world's into it. p

glenno Tuesday, February 3, 2009 7:53:52 AM

The rest is just so last year...

Redshigen Wednesday, February 4, 2009 3:38:17 PM

:nods in agreement:

Gotta keep up with the times, and maybe the next big franchise is "Fashionable Depression".

...Better start a magazine....lol

glenno Wednesday, February 4, 2009 7:07:52 PM

And an exclusive shop in every business center in the world...We are going to be sooo rich partner! Should we give Deke a commision as we have developed the idea on his blog? yikes bigsmile
Now all we need is a catchy name and brand logo..How about Financial Fluctuations International?

Deke Thursday, February 5, 2009 12:27:41 AM

Financial United Comfortable Klothing Unlimited.

Now where's that commision?

glenno Thursday, February 5, 2009 2:01:45 AM

Hang on while i think of a sharp witty response...but dont hold your breath in case you go blue

Deke Thursday, February 5, 2009 2:14:40 AM

smurf psmurf pssst faint rip

glenno Thursday, February 5, 2009 2:28:38 AM

Ha, my fiendish plan worked, reverse psychology rules ko smile

Deke Thursday, February 5, 2009 3:16:06 AM

Shouldn't you be in bed, zzz you insomniac you?...

glenno Thursday, February 5, 2009 3:46:29 AM

its now 4:45 in the afternoon here,bit early for me..smile

Redshigen Tuesday, February 24, 2009 4:14:16 AM

lol

I have 11:12 and need to be up for school in like six hours... Screw it... rip

Your plan was so well-thought out, too... Shame he unwittingly ressurected himself... doh

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