VancouverGuy

I was digested through a British airport last week - certainly didn't look like a recession there.

"Personalised Number Plates will be to the gold bar, as the furry dice will be to the silver bullion."

It's the teeth isn't it.?

These days, I consider big-city life is just for people who don't know how to use a calculator.

I know it's difficult for people on here to understand, but there are actually a lot of people with skills who earn a good living. You don't generally hear them complaining on internet forums, but they've been in well-paid jobs for many years and have good comfortable lives and live in nice houses.

I'm pretty sure the United States can clear a wrecked bridge out the way faster than the UK can do it's "Environmental Impact Assessment", or before the UK's bridge clearance team has completed it's Gender Awareness Training course.

Damn - this thread revival isn't about what I hoped it might be about.

Actually, I quite admire the optics of a guy wearing a jumper that his mother-in-law probably gave him for Christmas, telling the leaders of a G7 country the importance of financial literacy.

Plenty of jobs still in my world of embedded software, both UK and globally. I'd say the central banks have done a good job, inflation's mostly tamed and no massive recession or severe job losses. Having said that, I do know of one person who was laid off a few weeks ago (Business Analyst for a major bank) ... the first thing he did was book a family trip to Disneyland.

Well I don't support the Israeli genocide in Palestine either, and believe that the International Court of Justice should be adhered to, and that free debate should be allowed in the House of Commons. Apparently that makes me an "extremist". Cool!

A new day, a new record high at S&P500 close. Buffett's annual letter comes out tomorrow - should be interesting to hear what he's got to say particularly about this tech stuff.

Another record close on the S&P ... 5087. Gotta love liquid assets!

Launch a nuclear missile into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. No particular reason ... I'd just like to see what it looks like.

Dunno - but they're probably living in a big house somewhere by now ...

Yeah - that's the cheapest I could find too (for my UK-domiciled assets).