Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

An interesting list.

The New Elizabethans

I see Fred 'the shred' makes it, but Gordon Brown doesn't.

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No surprise as Bloomberg was urging everyone to sell - So the outcome.
Is it called manipulation? No, It is their right to predict.

Currently down 11%

Launch success for SpaceX mission

California's SpaceX has launched on a mission to re-supply the space station - the first cargo delivery to the orbiting outpost by a private company.

So commences a mis- delivered, stolen, lost, or just plain couldnt be arsed to deliver service.

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The World Bank cut its economic growth forecast for China this year to 8.2 per cent today and urged the country to rely on easier fiscal policy that boosts consumption rather than state investment to lift activity.

beecroft . what a great idea we can sack workers we dont like .
if they know more than the boss sack them we can not have that
and also sack them if they are a danger to the bosses job .
WHAT A GREAT IDEA .

Euro zone current account back in surplus: ECB
http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0523/euro-zone-current-account-back-in-surplus.html

Apple design chief Jonathan Ive is knighted

Jonathan Ive - the British designer responsible for Apple's iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad - has been knighted at Buckingham Palace.

Great for him, but he is not a benefit to the UK!!
Americans are using him, as usual.

But Brits are using the products he designed. Not much competition in that market from the UK anyway.

I think the headline should read 'peace' and not 'pace'!

Married men only eat healthily at home to 'keep the peace'

Married men eat healthily at home to keep the peace – but love to gorge on junk food when away from their wives, according to a new study.

Morning skinny, I can identify with that one, dropped the wife off at hossy yesterday hip op 2.00pm this aft. Straight to Mickey D's :O)

I hope it goes well Chris. Large fries I take it :-)

Activities are moving fast from high street retailers to internet retailers. EVen cars, cloth, electronics etc are bought online.

Companies like ASOS are cashing in. Internet providers and telephone companies are making money like never before. Even in Greece everyone is trying to buy an smartphone.

The situation is not as bad as they project in the numbers for countries, as most statistics comes from historically big high street retailers only.

fire in nuclear submarine in US is extinguished.

Ahoj reply to your post on chart attack thread.......

ahoj - 24 May 2012 09:05 - 2698 of 2699
The assumption is ridicules now... assuming that a fall in manufacturing activities means the end of the world.
While there is little competition between most manufacturers, they make money ..ENDS

Yep but ahoj the fact is the modern manufacturer is so capital intensive that he barely needs labour as to the extent of the older historical manufacturers ie, textiles engineering etc and less employees means less jobs and therefore less consumption and less demand in the economy, the multiplier being at historicaly low rates and also money supply on m1 m3 and m4 contracting at record levels.

The key to getting this country back on its feet is through the highstreet(including online) and home services sector.

We need a reduction in VAT on both to stimualte demand and to expand the money supply naturally not through QE but demand led with the economic multiplier distributing further cycle growth.

Of course this would mean a lag on public revenue/tax intake so a one off tax on the banking sector could cover the short fall created by the reduced tax intake.

The expansion would lead to more jobs more people spending and in the long run more tax revenues.

Weve got it wrong at the moment tinkering around the edges with red tape reform etc. fact is the small amount that has been cut in the deficit so far is down to tax rises, it hasnt been cut via spending cuts, thats still to come.

And you have to remember the Bond markets sooner rather than later will see through this and it wont be long before the UK govt is called to account and we would be in danger of seeing higher interest rates.

I accepted an offer of 270k on my house which was valued at 320k a year ago! I am going to live with my girlfriend.

Was it right decision? I don't know, but I need the money to pay my debt ... losses in the market!