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Collective Thought: How the stockmarket works

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Saturday, 18 October 2008. How the stockmarket works. Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so scarce it was an effort to even find a monkey, let alone catch it! The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50 each! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him. Posted by Hive Mind. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Retentions, ...

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Collective Thought: November 2008

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Tuesday, 25 November 2008. Is it Boom or Bust for the UK Government, Darling? Yesterday's pre-budget report was meant to deliver a range of stimuli to the economy that would see a return to more stable economic conditions. The fundamentals of the package saw large increases to government debt in the short term, funded by tax increases a little way after. None of that sounds particularly appealing, so the good news must be hidden away somewhere, isn't it? What will be affected is the bigger ticket items -...

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Collective Thought: Weak Sterling and the impact on oil

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Friday, 19 December 2008. Weak Sterling and the impact on oil. Today's warning from Gordon Brown. On the oil price sparked a few thoughts in the Collective. Prices have tumbled from $150 to $40 per barrel in the last few months, and we've seen falls at the pump from around 120p to 89p/litre. One of the reasons generally given for why prices at the pump don't fall in line with the market is the level of duty charged, and there is no doubt that the UK is one of the most heavily penalised Western countries.

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Collective Thought: Is it Boom or Bust for the UK Government, Darling?

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Tuesday, 25 November 2008. Is it Boom or Bust for the UK Government, Darling? Yesterday's pre-budget report was meant to deliver a range of stimuli to the economy that would see a return to more stable economic conditions. The fundamentals of the package saw large increases to government debt in the short term, funded by tax increases a little way after. None of that sounds particularly appealing, so the good news must be hidden away somewhere, isn't it? What will be affected is the bigger ticket items -...

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Collective Thought: January 2008

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Wednesday, 30 January 2008. Are you Mr N Rock? Mr N Rock owns property. He has borrowed money from banks in order to fund his property purchase. As the value of his property portfolio has grown, he has used this uplift in value to fund more property purchasing (and hence taken on more debt). Sounds good, doesn't it? Not any more. He's just discovered three problems. The value of his properties isn't going up any longer; in effect, when you take into account inflation, his capital worth is diminishing;.

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Collective Thought: September 2008

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Thursday, 4 September 2008. Collective Companies: utellus - Sainsbury's.Tasting Indifference. A regular Sainsbury’s customer complained to utellus. That he had been ignored at the deli counter. Three members of staff chatted amongst themselves, none of them willing to serve the sole customer at their counter. He asked “Anybody bothering to serve? 8221; and got the response from one employee “Not if you talk to me like that? Hiding behind rights, and ignoring responsibilities will have only one outcome, p...

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Collective Thought: October 2008

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Friday, 31 October 2008. Retentions, or how to get a free overdraft at your suppliers’ expense. Retentions are fairly common in building and construction, and represent a proportion of the total contract price which is retained for a period of time, typically 12 months, by the customer. The idea is that in the event of a snag occurring within this period, the contractor will fix it, otherwise he doesn’t get his retention. A South Wales SME sent us their recent experiences…. Posted by Hive Mind. Soon the ...

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Collective Thought: Here Come the Zeros, by Bill Bonner

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Sunday, 8 February 2009. Here Come the Zeros, by Bill Bonner. Bill Bonner has been a daily contributor and the driving force behind. Since 1999. His article "Here Come the Zeros" was published on 6th February 2009 and we reproduce it in full below. Read it for yourselves, and draw your own conclusions. Once again, we are profoundly grateful to the nation of Zimbabwe and to its central banker. The latter has turned the former into a marvelous laboratory for bizarre monetary experiments. Debt and excess ca...