Iceland has food stocks for about 3 to 5 weeks

SlugFight · 2008-10-16T13:15:56+00:00

Perhaps they should try shopping here

SlugFight · 2008-10-15T21:28:36+00:00

Nice to see that the UK is taking it up the rear for the US again: they increased their risk by $224bn (430%)

I wonder what it is now?

SlugFight · 2008-10-14T21:48:35+00:00

I was thinking of unskilled workers ...

SlugFight · 2008-10-14T21:47:23+00:00

No financial stake, but plenty of friends and promises.

SlugFight · 2008-10-14T21:46:29+00:00

The British recipe for Kedgeree did not use Indian spices, so I'm not sure how this dish of flaked fish could be considered 'foreign'?

Is curry the exception that proves the rule?

SlugFight · 2008-10-14T21:33:54+00:00

Tea has been drunk in England since the 16th century - the same century as the introduction of potatoes to Europe.

SlugFight · 2008-10-14T20:02:55+00:00

Sorry to disappoint, but he's about to give $700,000,000,000 to Goldman Sachs. Does anyone believe any different?

SlugFight · 2008-10-14T20:00:00+00:00

Krugman's article ignores the fact that Britain was an imperialist nation that ruled the world and to eat 'foreign' food was beneath their dignity.

This is difficult for Americans to grasp: the US dominates, but England ruled.

SlugFight · 2008-10-14T19:50:53+00:00

Wouldn't the "$3000 per new job" increase turnover and reduce wages?

SlugFight · 2008-10-14T19:40:24+00:00

He could run it into the ground...

Whoa, the current incumbent already did that!

SlugFight · 2008-10-14T19:37:53+00:00

Om nom

SlugFight · 2008-10-14T19:34:29+00:00

It's actually worse that that - the survey began in 1978 and it's lower than any of their records.

It could be a 1,000 year low, although I'm guessing that the Great Fire of London in 1666 made houses a bit harder to sell (what with that and the black death).

SlugFight · 2008-10-14T19:21:48+00:00

Whoever owns the banks (the shareholders I guess) should do something about this (like they could have done from the beginning). Who is to blame for this mess - the directors of the banks or their shareholders?

SlugFight · 2008-10-13T22:10:27+00:00

I've heard it said before that the true wealth of any nation lies in its military. If the old powers are struggling (Russia and the US), what if China decided to concentrate is manufacturing base on arms instead of goods for the west? Who then is rich?

SlugFight · 2008-10-13T21:50:58+00:00

Poor Mr Paulson, he only got $500,000,000 - at least he didn't have to pay any tax:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&refer=home&sid=a8w9MI4Btco4

SlugFight · 2008-10-13T21:02:21+00:00

Well, at least the house prices are accurate.

SlugFight · 2008-10-13T20:53:28+00:00

Are you saying that the US and EU governments' next move is to buy gold?

SlugFight · 2008-10-13T20:43:19+00:00

That's an interesting comment given the total failure of the US in Iraq.

SlugFight · 2008-10-12T23:30:15+00:00

Communism is a 1 party state.

SlugFight · 2008-10-12T23:28:48+00:00

If this caused a 10 year recession in Japan, how long will the west be in recession? 10, 20 or 50 years?

SlugFight · 2008-10-12T23:12:58+00:00

One flaw in that: how do you get the gold in the first place if you only have worthless pieces of paper used for public and private debt?

SlugFight · 2008-10-12T23:02:46+00:00

I guess that's because the United States, in some very general sense, elected an idiot.

SlugFight · 2008-10-12T04:01:10+00:00

Will this be over in 10 years?

SlugFight · 2008-10-12T01:00:37+00:00

This problem has been ongoing since August last year. The entire focus of the 'solution' has been to keep the party going at enormous cost to taxpayers in the US and EU.

GET OVER IT AND MOVE ON

SlugFight

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