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They might execute it better, in the same way what search/advertising did to altavista et al.. and what android & others did to Blackberry/Nokia. I also don't think the US has the same land restrictions as the UK but it will be interesting to see if it does become successful.
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What with Cameron "worrying" about his kids never getting on the housing ladder and now a poor MP has had to move back with mum and day... I get the feeling they are "softening up" public opinion before showtime.
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Careful, one could have said a similar thing about driving people to their destination in a private car a few years ago, look at Uber et al now.
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Not very often you see stuff made is Israel.
Only things i can think of that i've seen around here are stanley plastic toolboxes , dates (the dried edible fruit) and a small number of medicines.
Some I've seen in supermarkets: Avocados, citrus fruits (rare), cut & washed fresh herbs in plastic (overpriced parsley/coriander/mint etc..). The source might also vary by region in the UK.
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sorry for being thick - how do we do that?
read the rules/faq and politely request in the upgrade forum.
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HSBC are fecking theives all around the world, and think their customers are too stupid to know any better.
Here in the UAE, they tell you foreign credit card transactions in dollar are: 1USD=3.69 + 2.8% Visa Fee. When you get your statement, they have charged you 3.69 + 3.84%. None of the morons on the phone could explain it, and told me to 'fill in a complain form sir'. After complaining, they refunded the excess charge without any explanation. Second time I make a purchase, same thing, they refund without explanation. I ain't gonna bother a third time, and the infuriating thing is there is no one to complain to like the FSA the UK, except for the Jersey Financial services, which given the blurb on their site, make it clear they don't give a sh!t.
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What would change that would force such a huge drop in the Gold price?
Desperate people selling their gold to pay their bills?
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I'm interested 'enrieb' talks about 'scapegoats'. This means (I believe) a goat which is driven out from some middle eastern village to fend for itself. Not obviously very relevant.
Totally spot on mate. Keep it up.
What makes me wonder about enrieb is that he seems not to grasp the issue. The world has something like 6 billion people and no doubt many of them aren't in some sense 'undesirable'. But so what? I suppose it's one of the side effects of internet that sites liike this attract people unable to say anything, but who feel they must, at all costs, type soemthing....And again, encore!, you totally hit the nail on the head there, mate!
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Just joined, never posted before, starts a new topic with a stream of consciousness and
no evidence or reasoning.
There's about 10 of these on the main page, it's getting silly. Not just from new members
just random thoughts people have on the economy or politics that have to be heard
and need a new thread.
I was surprised as well as these newbie posts need to be approved by a moderator.
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I listed 5 sample issues------8<---------but who feel they must, at all costs, type soemthing....
Hi Darling,
dont' get angry, it's unbecoming of you. Call me anytime, we'll have ourselves a ball.
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Yes, I was curious to see if people were nformed on this topic. Obviously the respondents aren't, including the eastern European, who appears to exist in a way that doesn't apply to immigrants generally. I found using the search engine here a quite good article about 4 years old, with tables of figures for assorted varieties of incomers, and also things like 'new starts'. but of curse the statistical problems are enormous.
However I'll return from time to time to see if anyone has reliable data, or for that matter sound evidence of why official information is unreliable.
Hi Honey,
I thought I was suitably informed on the invasion of the once Great Britain by foreign unwashed masses, but it seems that I have not kept up to date on the latest, most reliable statistics. I would love for you to inform me on what I have missed out on. We could do it over dinner sometime? What do you think?
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[1] New houses being automatically given to immigrants and so called 'asylum seekers'. Presumably this is only possible if tax money goes to house builders. The figures are supposed to be something like 40% - I quote from memory though.
No so sure, I'm told it's more like 73%.
[2] Houses specifically built with e.g. 7 bedrooms on an immigarnts only need apply basis. This happens in Oldham (I'm
told) and presumably elsewhere.
Happens everywhere, I'm told they also get a chartered concorde to take them to visit their families twice a year.
[3] Offical Secrets Act and Tenancy agreements with immigrants who are issues with new euqipment of all sorts
(including televisions).
It's cos they get this special receiver which allows them to view the secret channels only some people are allowed to receive. I'm told by 2009, they will all be upgraded to HD capable receivers and TV's.
[4] Effects on areas being taken over - obviously it must have some effect on prices, and also on perceived desirability. And in the longer term the whole balance of whether housing is seen as desirable - if rates/ property taxes/ other euphemisms continue going up.
Lots of takeovers and increasing euphemisms going on nowadays. Totally mad out there.
[5] Possibility if prices fall of large scale buying up of housing by for example Saudi Arabia who (apparently) have money
to burn.
Correct, Those Wasabi Saudis will never miss a chance to plant their root of islam anywhere in the world, even in a deeply Catholic country like the UK.
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Dear All;
Dont be fooled by the hype from Europe.
They are just 6 to 9 months behind us. Plus the fact that they lie about their own problems. They are not in it for anyone elses benefit but themselves.
There are problems with the GB solution, but the beggar thy neighbour policies from Peer are very dangerous.
I attach a file that is the basis for discussion. It takes a slightly different view from the norm on here.
Bonner
Basis for discussion? A document full of spelling mistakes and slang, written by "MDR Associates" who'se only online reference is some new build developer??? Are you sure?
The German minister is behaving not merely crassly, but dangerously ceass. The beggar my neighbour policy was tried in the thirties, and look at where that ended.Umm yeah, send it to the Sun or the Daily Mail, they love this kind of 'research'.
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Not sure a twit after all, eh?
I believe this has been addressed already, Martin Wolf of the FT calls him a guru, Willem Buiter calls him a twit:
Martin Wolf, in the same comment, also asserts that “This is the moment at which David Blanchflower, an external member of the monetary policy committee and professor of economics at Dartmouth College in the US, is entitled to say “I told you so”. Prof Blanchflower has voted for a cut on every occasion since October 2007. In retrospect, he was right to push strongly in this direction, usually against majority opinion on the MPC. His views on the economy deserve respect now.”I beg to disagree and intend to be ungracious. External MPC member Danny Blanchflower was not right about the need to cut rates, except in the sense that a clock that stands still is right twice a day. His views on the economy do not deserve respect now. Hindsight is useless. One has to look at the information available at the time and the arguments used at the time. It is true that, with hindsight, after you have bought a lottery ticket and have won, it was better to be lucky than wise. But that does not change the fact that, as a return-maximising policy or strategy, buying lottery tickets is unwise, because a lottery has a negative expected return for the punter.
http://blogs.ft.com/maverecon/2008/10/bett...ise-than-lucky/
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we had 3000 worldwide... the dubai office was around 80 people. salaries were the "usual" dubai racist scale:
-philipino/indian secretary - 3000aed/month
-english secretary - 25,000 aed/month
-russian/european programmer - 40000 aed per month
-senior management - 50000-80000 aed per month
Do those figures include allowances? Rent/Air Fare etc... or are those 'take home' pay?
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Im sitting here reading some Times article suggesting that next big cut will be 1% which will in effect reduce BoE interest rate from current 3% to 2%...
How will banks make money if interest rates at 0%
and wont savers take all their money out of the UK?
Official rates at 0% doesn't mean that the retail banks will lend at that rate, or lend to you at all... And as for savers moving away their cash, it's possible, but the banks aren't exactly offering great saving deals on Euro/USD accounts.
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I visited Sharm El Sheikh twice and I’m so much fascinated with the place. By the way, I am working for an Australian employer and currently we had our negotiation with one of real estate agent in Egypt. He decided to get a 1-bedroom apartment from Egyptventure , the place is Sharm El Sheikh. Is someone here familiar with this? I think the price range of their property is from EUR € 40k- EUR € 50k. There were few units left when we talked with an agent so he decided quickly whether to get one or not. This coming December, we will visit the location to see it in actual.
Sounds like a brilliant decision. If I were in your shoes, I would purchase at least 6 of them. This would MULTIPLY YOUR PROFIT by 6.
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I hate to think what the cost of leaving the air conditioning on all day everyday is?
Relatively cheap, and even cheaper if you are a local emirati. Pisses me off walking about and feeling an artic blast coming from the open doors of a business while temperatures are hitting 40 Deg. Celcius. Energy price increases.. they've heard something about it on the foreign news.
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Purely anecdotal... I was with a friend in PC-world twice in this last week - 24 hours apart. The top-of-the-range Sony laptop went up in price by £100 overnight.
The killer issue is that the (slightly superior spec) Dell was already 30 to 40% cheaper... before the price hike.
I've seen PC World do this years ago, was with Sony CD Writers incidentally, the price went up £50 to £299 through a member of staff sticking new price labels on them. Yes in those days they did cost that much.
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I am not surprised, I went to their store on Oxford Street a few months ago, as it was on my way home from work, looking for a knife sharpener, and the cheapeast they had was £15. No thank you. £3.50 from TK Maxx.
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Apparently, customers of IceSave have been paid interest on all accounts pro rata to 8 October, in advance of the money being paid back into linked accounts by FSCS this month.
Looks like the FSCS are doing a fantastic job in good time. And to think of all the armchair experts who insisted it would fail to deliver.
But some people are never happy. One poster at This Is Money is apoplectic that they have not got their money as of 2 November when it was "promised in November". What a tool. If I was in the FSCS I'd try to **** up his transfer on purpose..... ;o)
That's nice of them, especially when the UK Government has to foot the bill.
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These are next on Hugh Hendry's list.
The "game moves on" to them apparently.
90% of Hungarian mortgages are in Yen or Swiss Francs!
How do we best short their currencies? Are they on IG index I wonder?
Maybe this could help: Hookers that cost too much, flash German cars and insolvent banks: an introduction to Swedbank’s Baltic homeland
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You are afflicted by too much confirmation bias to make it worthwhile responding.
But we'd still like to hear your reasoning.....
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I may be wrong but I thought EC rules forbid an individual nation member from removing VAT from any item it is already payable on.
I _think_ that's right, the only thing they could do is to move products from the normal VAT (17.5%) rate to the lower VAT rate, whatever that is.
Inflation - Costs upwards trend
in House prices and the economy
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The Virgin thing is a waste of time.
1Gb Data only SIM gone from £4.12 to £6pm.
S&S ISA global fund returned -0.5% since April
10% increase on same BB package as mentioned by OP.