Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[jl5006] 24/9/2020 19:16

So the threat to US banks is just a side issue.
The inability of WHO to do its job is another.
And the lemmings over the cliff is the mission statement of the supposed leaders of the world who wear double panti pads.
WFT FFS

[alphorn] 24/9/2020 19:12

lef - gold is probably good - many moons ago I was a gold bug! The 'one that got away' for me has been cryptos. If you look at my crypto thread there have been the really big winners. (I missed out on a crucial meeting in Zug a couple of years back) :((

[alphorn] 24/9/2020 19:08

lef - my guess on the Swiss supermarkets is that it is further down the supply chain. These are imports. Everyday life is fairly normal here despite the high infection rates, very disciplined without needing to be reminded every 2 seconds. (On the wine front 2020 is likely to be a very good year so vineyards are creating space and need cash). (No panic buying at all).

[jl5006] 24/9/2020 19:05

sorry GW Bush was but the aftermath fell to Obama

[lefrene] 24/9/2020 19:04

jl506, it was the Democrats who did away with the Glass-Steagal act under Clinton, and much of the subsequent reckless gambling with depositors money has emanated from that. If the current mess is as I suspect, you can't be telling the working people of the USA, that your Bank has gambled away your savings!

Alp, I'm afraid to say that for the past 12 months I have become a gold bug, and that has worked out very well so far. ie, holding shares in miners, (ones that are mining and paying a divi), and not the actual metal. AAZ is my favourite.

[jl5006] 24/9/2020 18:54

Lefr
You have to remember that Obama was I/c in 2008. I/C what does that mean / - And J yellen was ic of fed.
So if this gaping black hole was hidden til 2019 - who colluded?
The democrats were in place when the devastation occurred - so does this rest - if true - at the feet of the Biden man to explain?
As to UK nonsense ur analysis is just a plain and simple. sad our media thinks it is the black death - for they cannot sell their newsprint!

[lefrene] 24/9/2020 18:53

Alp, it is perhaps a classic case of fooling most of the people most of the time? However will something happen in the political sphere that prompts whistle blowing? Although for that I suppose there would have to be a meaningful difference between the political players? All I see is vanity, greed, and posturing, but no real willingness to make real changes.

That info regarding Swiss retail is interesting. Are warehouses over stuffed and they just need to create space?

[alphorn] 24/9/2020 18:42

On a totally different subject I am astounded at the level of discounting that is going on in Swiss supermarkets. Wine, fruit, coffee etc. Almost given away.
That must mean that there is serious over supply in the supply chain plus the need for suppliers to raise cash. In addition, the strength of CHF.

[alphorn] 24/9/2020 18:39

lef - I was looking forward to your post.

There is no doubt serious issues on the horizon. I just don't see that it could be hidden by a global, deliberate and calculated cover up. Perhaps it is me that is missing something?

I would also agree that many issues from 2008 were not totally sorted, especially outside of the USA.

I would also agree that there are many totally inept individuals around the place. .....and we have not even discussed Brexit yet!

Looking forwards - what would you say that individuals today should be doing to protect themselves?

Looking forward to your next post.

[lefrene] 24/9/2020 18:25

Alp, I don't go looking for "conspiracy theories", I look at the information available, and then look at what is happening in the public space, and there is to my mind a chasm.

The MBS whoopsie of 2008 cost far more than is generally known, circa $28 trillions. The $680 trillions derivatives market tottered when the repo market froze on 17th September 2019. A crazy situation of derivatives predicated upon company bonds, of loss making companies whose share prices are artificially propped up, by the Boards borrowing vast sums to buy in their own shares, thus pushing up the share price in order to get big bonuses. The scale of it is reckoned to be between four to ten times the size of the mortgage bond debacle. www,wallstreetonparade.com provide sources and references. There's a vast blackhole that needs plastering over, which is bound to take a good many companies down, with consequential huge job losses and the usual knock on effects on an economy of reduced consumer spending. No political party at the helm that allowed this to happen, is going to get re-voted in, for quite some time. You need a smoke screen.

Meanwhile over here, the person who played the inept bumbling school boy to further his political career, actually turns out to be an actual inept bumbling school boy. My guess he and his crew feel the need to get ahead of the curve in the game, to avoid being accused of being slack, thus brings in even more draconian rules about a disease which in normal times would be most likely ignored, as past flu epidemics have. This way he and his chums can claim they 'saved us' from something much worse (even if they didn't), and at the same time (just as in the USA) throw created money into the public space. I don't think that in normal economic times, with a genuine dangerous plague, that these things would have happened.

You would have isolated the island completely, put vulnerable groups out of harms way, and let the rest of the economy run as normally as possible. If you knew there was a cheap preventative medicine, you would have distributed it to ensure that things kept working. You wouldn't use advice from totally discredited sources (Fergusson and his ilk) as a reason to deliberately crash your economy.

I conclude that I don't know what is really going on, but what I do see is deliberate, calculated and nonsensical.

[jl5006] 24/9/2020 18:08

Gecko
I have said b4 - eat ur green esp cruciates and 100mg Vit c + zinc and Vit D when the sun dont shine.
Any Any advice to this simple aid - No!!
sure the malaria drug is an aid - why not endorse it as an aid to the immune system. Trump did and was pilloried

[jl5006] 24/9/2020 17:59

Sorry I forgot to add that Blue tooth is said to be at fault by the product producer.
Well well - never a human error - just like witless and liberty

[geckotheglorious] 24/9/2020 17:55

xxxxxy
Post 315401
"Biological systems are not simplistic. Survival of a virus is as important to the virus as survival of any other biological system.
Masks may accelerate the mutation rate and so humans actually become more susceptible.
Think about it. Or study some real biology"

Perhaps YOU should study some real biology because all my comments come from:
Dr Chris Martensen
Dr John Campbell.

I wouldn't listen to a word Dr Fauci,or any of his associates say frankly given the bombshell news recently.

US recommended daily dose Vit D - 600IU under 70 / 800IU over 70
UK fyi is only 400 IU

Dr Fauci is taking 6000IU.
And said nothing about why he is taking 10x the recommended daily dosage each day!!

CDC is a busted flush.
Ditto WHO.

You are being conned.

[xxxxxy] 24/9/2020 17:40

Mr Gove is great. Kent is great too.EUSSR is BAD.No DealWTO

[mikemichael2] 24/9/2020 17:22

Is there a strange smell wafting out of her attic??

[alphorn] 24/9/2020 16:59

Don't overexert your brain cell. Stoned already?

[aljm] 24/9/2020 16:48

Portside, you'd love my next door neighbour,single woman, 2 kids, 2 dogs, never worked a day in her life, just got herself a 70 plate car, fkn unbelievable,