Posted on October 13, 2008 by Marion
I’ve been a somewhat breathless observer of all the recent tumult in the financial markets, to the point that hubby and I did have a ‘what’s the worst case scenario’ conversation over the weekend. Admittedly, being young, in the upper end of the socio-economic spectrum, having some assets and no dependents definitely means that our [...]
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Posted on September 30, 2008 by Marion
After my post of last night, this post may seem to be an odd follow-up, but bear with me here.
Hubby and I were watching the Bloomberg coverage of the fallout of the vote failure and the after-close analysis last night and after such a huge amount of uncertainty and bad news, what seemed to be [...]
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Posted on September 29, 2008 by Marion
To follow on from one of my previous posts (The current financial madness), I’ve been watching today’s news in a sense of complete disbelief. To think that so many enormous, financially earth-shattering events could happen in the space of 24hrs, and then to top it all off 13 foolish, idiotic Republicans scuppered the Paulson rescue [...]
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Posted on September 18, 2008 by Marion
Having a husband employed in the London City corporate banking world, I suppose I’m on the ‘curious and relatively infomed’ end the spectrum when it comes to normal people watching the financial markets tear themselves apart.
(Very) Fortunately for us, it seems that hubby’s job is very unlikely to be one of the predicted 110,000 to [...]
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