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rebbonk
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 Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 5:45 pm
It's going to start getting busy out there. Those roads were inadequate 45 years ago.
It's going to start getting busy out there. Those roads were inadequate 45 years ago.
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Lex
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 4:52 pm
A bit of good news: [url]https://www.rugbyadvertiser.co.uk/news/people/packaging-company-move-headquarters-and-200-employees-site-ansty-2897859[/url]
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rebbonk
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 9:15 pm
Covid is being used as an excuse here. RR and AM were deep in the mire before all of this.
Covid is being used as an excuse here. RR and AM were deep in the mire before all of this.
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Lex
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 6:04 pm
Bad news from Rolls Royce, Aston Martin & Lookers car dealerships:
[url]https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/rolls-royce-announces-hundreds-job-18362047[/url]
[url]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52917780[/url]
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Mister H
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Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 2:58 pm
rebbonk wrote: Hence negative interest rates! Sure. In Switzerland they're discussing you actually having to pay THEM to put money with them. When you see journals of the establishment like 'The Economist' saying, in print, that people smuggling, and hard drugs, are a good wheeze to make money (properly regulated of course. - lol) you kind of get the deja vu feeling of the last day of Byzantium. [quote="rebbonk"]Hence negative interest rates![/quote]
Sure. In Switzerland they're discussing you actually having to pay THEM to put money with them. When you see journals of the establishment like 'The Economist' saying, in print, that people smuggling, and hard drugs, are a good wheeze to make money (properly regulated of course. - lol) you kind of get the deja vu feeling of the last day of Byzantium.
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rebbonk
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Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 12:35 pm
Hence negative interest rates!
Hence negative interest rates!
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Mister H
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Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 7:49 am
My take on this is as follows. The banks collapsed in 2008. They remain collapsed. The money goes in, the money goes out, but there's no shaking it all about. The cogs whirr and that's about it.
The western world is submerged underneath Himalayan levels of debt, and nobody knows how it, or even any part, can ever be paid back.
The economic system as such continues, but in a kind of parallel universe with the collapsed financial system.
As I see it, there is now a split within the State between a part which wants a deal with China as some way out of this mess, and the old Washington wing, which wants more of the same that we have had since 1945. Brexit of course is adding to this explosive mix. And of course lets not forget we are still in austerity. Yet massive, seismic pressures are building on the government to spend money it hasn't got and cannot get from tapped out tax payers, and cannot increase the printing presses any more to make money.
The moral is simple - they are desperate, and I mean desperate for YOUR money. And are getting to the stage, I have to say, when they may be prepared to do anything to get it. As Cummings, the brilliant asymmetric warfare guy said, you have to realise these powers are now fighting to preserve the very system itself and what they take from it.
My take on this is as follows. The banks collapsed in 2008. They remain collapsed. The money goes in, the money goes out, but there's no shaking it all about. The cogs whirr and that's about it.
The western world is submerged underneath Himalayan levels of debt, and nobody knows how it, or even any part, can ever be paid back.
The economic system as such continues, but in a kind of parallel universe with the collapsed financial system.
As I see it, there is now a split within the State between a part which wants a deal with China as some way out of this mess, and the old Washington wing, which wants more of the same that we have had since 1945. Brexit of course is adding to this explosive mix. And of course lets not forget we are still in austerity. Yet massive, seismic pressures are building on the government to spend money it hasn't got and cannot get from tapped out tax payers, and cannot increase the printing presses any more to make money.
The moral is simple - they are desperate, and I mean desperate for YOUR money. And are getting to the stage, I have to say, when they may be prepared to do anything to get it. As Cummings, the brilliant asymmetric warfare guy said, you have to realise these powers are now fighting to preserve the very system itself and what they take from it.
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rebbonk
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Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 7:55 pm
That's going to upset a few applecarts. Sadly, I think we're going to see more of this as pressure from internet banking takes hold.
That's going to upset a few applecarts. Sadly, I think we're going to see more of this as pressure from internet banking takes hold.
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Lex
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Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 6:25 pm
157 jobs are going at Barclays in Coventry: [url]https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/barclays-axe-157-jobs-coventry-17860855[/url]
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rebbonk
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Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2019 9:10 am
Lies, damned lies, and statistics. - I used to teach it!
You might like to read "Freakonomics" (Dubner and Levitt) or "How to Lie with Statistics" (Darrell Huff) to see how the woll is really pulled over your eyes.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics. - I used to teach it!
You might like to read "Freakonomics" (Dubner and Levitt) or "How to Lie with Statistics" (Darrell Huff) to see how the woll is really pulled over your eyes.
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Lex
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Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2019 8:06 pm
A good example of how statistics can be used for sensationalism; a lot of the people quoted in this article either don't need to work, or are studying: https://www.rugbyadvertiser.co.uk/news/people/jobs-concern-as-3-000-households-in-rugby-have-no-working-occupants-1-9027573A good example of how statistics can be used for sensationalism; a lot of the people quoted in this article either don't need to work, or are studying: [url]https://www.rugbyadvertiser.co.uk/news/people/jobs-concern-as-3-000-households-in-rugby-have-no-working-occupants-1-9027573[/url]
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rebbonk
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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 6:47 pm
I'm puzzled by this. You can't tell me that they didn't have the skills in the area where they were? - Stinks of 'inducements' to me.
I'm puzzled by this. You can't tell me that they didn't have the skills in the area where they were? - Stinks of 'inducements' to me.
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Lex
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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 5:57 pm
A rare bit of good news for Coventry: [url]https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-jobs-manufacturing-ses-prism-16561488[/url]
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rebbonk
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2018 6:44 pm
[quote="Lex"]250 jobs for the Coventry area, and a company with an ethical business model: [url]https://www.leamingtoncourier.co.uk/news/bookseller-will-bring-up-to-250-new-jobs-to-warwick-district-1-8712657[/url][/quote]
That looks good
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Lex
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2018 6:00 pm
250 jobs for the Coventry area, and a company with an ethical business model: [url]https://www.leamingtoncourier.co.uk/news/bookseller-will-bring-up-to-250-new-jobs-to-warwick-district-1-8712657[/url]
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cathidaw
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 3:04 pm
THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE BLUE MOON. today in fact
Once in a blue moon-we all know the expression.
Our politics are shaky, but I'm optimistic.
This may be the 'once in a blue moon' when things turn for the best. Our mess of a government cannot last forever.
Mother Teresa can't keep everything to her chest forever either,whatever she believes.
Up 'til now , the only definite announcement she's ever made is, 'I'm no quitter'.
The rest is secret.
She has her own definition of Prime.
'Prime' is defined as 'chief' , not 'sole' as she appears to believe.
So , for the moment she should be our 'Sole minister'.
Crossing my fingers this magic moon works! ! I had cowslips out in January, didn't I?
THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE BLUE MOON. today in fact
Once in a blue moon-we all know the expression.
Our politics are shaky, but I'm optimistic.
This may be the 'once in a blue moon' when things turn for the best. Our mess of a government cannot last forever.
Mother Teresa can't keep everything to her chest forever either,whatever she believes.
Up 'til now , the only definite announcement she's ever made is, 'I'm no quitter'.
The rest is secret.
She has her own definition of Prime.
'Prime' is defined as 'chief' , not 'sole' as she appears to believe.
So , for the moment she should be our 'Sole minister'.
Crossing my fingers this magic moon works! ! I had cowslips out in January, didn't I?
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