Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[minerve 2] 13/4/2020 14:15

bargain

I haven't got that one. I'll take a look.

I bought the financial/investing/business books of 3 books stores when they were closing down. One over here in the UK (Borders) and two in the US (Borders and Barnes & Noble). I had a boot full of the things including some that are no longer in print covering all sorts. Some real undiscovered and previously unheard of gems that are well worth the prices I paid.

[minerve 2] 13/4/2020 14:09

Sounds like mikemichael2 is jealous. Probably a Buffet book is too deep for his small mind to handle.

[bargainbob] 13/4/2020 13:37

Minerve the Snowball effect was a good book . Bought it for 2.99 in the works if i recall.

[mikemichael2] 13/4/2020 13:35

Wait for it, bet he comes back with all sorts of stuff he's been helping.

[minerve 2] 13/4/2020 13:06

Pierre

I visualise you as some 60 year old who dresses in ripped jeans and creams your hair back trying to look like you are in your early 30s. LOL

By-the-way, your visualisation is completely wrong.

LOL

[minerve 2] 13/4/2020 13:03

The other day, as it happens, I was instrumental in making sure an old couple got to the front of the queue at a supermarket. The queue was about 90 minutes long and most were just going to watch them join the end, apart from another couple. I don't know why I bother, my charitable efforts mostly go unnoticed.

[pierre oreilly] 13/4/2020 13:02

Doubt min has bad hair days. I visualise him as bald and 5 foot 1.

[minerve 2] 13/4/2020 13:00

Pierre

I have no issue with old people, I have issue with old Brexiters.

[diku] 13/4/2020 12:57

Just like everybody...Min also has a bad hair day...

[pierre oreilly] 13/4/2020 12:53

lol, you are funny minny. Oh so caring today for the old and vulnerable, when yesterday you wished all the old dead.

And do these draconian measures look after the vulnerable? Depends - if you are a covid vulnerable, then yes. If you have cancer, then I' afraid the nhs has just cast you off to survive as best you can without their help. And if you have any mental illness, then again these measures are probably driving you closer to suicide. If you're suseptable to stress, then you're completely stressed out, meaning you are being killed by these measures - stress kills.

Single issue politics or a single issue nhs is insanity. The unthinkers saying 'but if you don't have lockdown people will die!!!!!!, not mentioning that if you do have lockdown, more will die.

[minerve 2] 13/4/2020 12:32

"The vulnerable have only themselves to blame if they put themselves at risk, so should stay indoors as much as they can."

Some of the vulnerable live with other family members and some may even need to work. To suggest they ONLY HAVE THEMSELVES TO BLAME is an ignorant comment.

Many old/vulnerable people still have to shop for food.

We should rename this thread CLOUD CUCKOO LAND. LOL

[utrickytrees] 13/4/2020 12:29

The government have thrown the kitchen sink at covid, its policy for the capital was rolled out to the rest of the UK...time for a rethink.

[xxxxxy] 13/4/2020 12:29

Lockdown. Causes deaths too....'Fears for cancer care as up to 2,000 referrals are missed every weekReferrals under the two-week wait system have fallen by up to 70 per cent in the last month,'Daily Telegraph

[maxidi] 13/4/2020 12:25

Redwood has a point though.
The vulnerable have only themselves to blame if they put themselves at risk, so should stay indoors as much as they can.

The schools and workers should have a choice to return with care, as we know a large percentage won't even know if they have had the bug!

The economy really is important for all our futures.

[xxxxxy] 13/4/2020 12:24

CaterpillarPosted April 13, 2020 at 7:33 am | PermalinkDear Govt,1. Please recall that flat lining of GDP per capita following the financial crisis led to a flat lining of life expectancy in the U.K. This equates to very many (1 to 3 orders of maagnitude depending on assumptions) more life years than the lockdown is supposedly saving from CV19, even the initial hysterical ones. The longer the lockdown is in place the more life years it is likely to cost. You must recognise that this is a lives vs lives decision and not a lives vs economy decision.2. Stop keeping the country in the dark; publish the Porton Down antibody test data and update daily.Reply?Roy GraingerPosted April 13, 2020 at 9:00 am | PermalinkThose telling us that austerity caused 130,000 deaths are now telling us that economic damage resulting from the lockdown won't cause any. Odd.

[xxxxxy] 13/4/2020 12:18

Frank McGarryPosted April 13, 2020 at 9:44 am | PermalinkI agree with you John. I also agree with the German Prof Kekule as interviewed by the Telegraph on Sunday. Keep the elderley and vulnerable in lockdown but get the kids back to school and most workers back to work. Continue with "smart distancing".

[minerve 2] 13/4/2020 12:16

I hope private landlords get ripped to shreds in a falling house price market. Financial pain will be healthy for them.

[minerve 2] 13/4/2020 11:56

Yet another way in which the lockdown is disproportionately hurting the young. Can’t the government declare that house building is essential work? Or maybe they just don’t care about the housing crisis, only about the pensioners who vote for them. - FT comment

[utrickytrees] 13/4/2020 11:54

I dont mind Redwood, but I think he exposes himself with this daily blog. Instrumental in keeping Brexit on the agenda.

[ny boy] 13/4/2020 11:35

US banks reporting, should give guidance here

[minerve 2] 13/4/2020 11:33

I've spent the last three weeks studying Buffett from a few books from my library.

[minerve 2] 13/4/2020 11:32

Pierre

If Cheshire (and other landlords here) had kids of their own and was a decade younger he would understand what you say about BTL.