Cash in your mattress time...

somebody set us up the bomb!

I blame the Icelandics. Terrorist scum.

Horrible aren't they?

[SID THE SEXIST]She can blow me up any time[/SID THE SEXIST]

Time to get your money in this stuff maybe:

Too late - gold prices have dropped significantly, i.e. > 20%, since the beginning of the year.

Be cheaper now then won't it?
;-)

Not really, the price gold also fluctuates and unless you're actually holding the stuff in your house then it's still an investment, which is as liable as anything else. Gold in your house is worthless until you sell it.

Have you actually got more than the government guaranteed 50k to save?

Edited to add, too fucking slow to type.

i think you mean gold has gone up recently.
it's being mentioned in the mainstream media therefore it is already too late to buy gold
(beginning of last year would have been an ideal time to buy)

"Have you actually got more than the government guaranteed 50k to save?"

you are missing the point. inflation (real inflation not the government statistics) and the drop in interest rates means that your savings (especially if they are not tax free) aren't really doing much apart from remaining static.
we are supposed to be prudent and save not spend recklessly with easy credit yet are penalised by doing so.

What, me worry?

I'm putting all my money into pork.
Depression or no depression, everyone (apart from the veggies, Jews and Muslims) likes a bacon butty.
Oh.

I'm putting all my money into pork.
Depression or no depression, everyone (apart from the veggies, Jews and Muslims) likes a bacon butty.
Oh.

pork bellies ;) (trading places)
http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=14162021&m=14161988

"Have you actually got more than the government guaranteed 50k to save?"

you are missing the point. inflation (real inflation not the government statistics) and the drop in interest rates means that your savings (especially if they are not tax free) aren't really doing much apart from remaining static.
we are supposed to be prudent and save not spend recklessly with easy credit yet are penalised by doing so.

Silly me, it'll far more likely earn interest as a fire hazard under the mattress or in a price fluctuating commodity of precious metals.

It may remain effectively static, it will also remain safe. Other financial advice really should be personalised to the individual, such as mortgage overpayment (banks quire interested in this at the moment) and fringe investments.

I have an idea that hemp will save us.

I'm gonna buy some land and buy some finola seed (and maybe some other 'test' varieties for their sticky flowers) and start making hemp-fuel and edible hemp-oil and hemp-fibre and hemp-paper.

I suggest all you farmers out there do the same.

We're gonna be rich! And if not rich, at least we'll be stoned!

hemp variety's are non-medicinal ;)

agricultural land has risen in price by quite a bit recently.
i think you have missed your oppertunity

Hoppertunity...
I think he was clutching at straws anyway, you have to make hay while the sun shines.

mr lama doesn't seem to be affected by the big crunch...

i'm putting all my money into pork.
Depression or no depression, everyone (apart from the veggies, jews and muslims) likes a bacon butty.
Oh.

pork bellies ;) (trading places)
http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaplayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=14162021&m=14161988

fcoj ftw!

Silly me, it'll far more likely earn interest as a fire hazard under the mattress or in a price fluctuating commodity of precious metals.

It may remain effectively static, it will also remain safe. Other financial advice really should be personalised to the individual, such as mortgage overpayment (banks quire interested in this at the moment) and fringe investments.

i think the meaning/interpretation got a mixed up there (on both sides) along with some irony thrown in.
i was referring to the fact that the opportunity to buy gold and make a healthy profit had probably passed as those that had the foresight had done that a year ago. and that having over 50k to save has nothing to do with it as split between 2 UK backed banks it's safe.and safer than deflating in value under a mattress. (albeit not growing in real value very much) if you think we are about to enter a post financial apocalypse then maybe it's a good idea (along with tinned food, guns and diesel generators)

it's just an opinion, i'm not giving financial advice as im not regulated by the FSA :-)

fcoj

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When did tinned food, guns and diesel generators ever stop being a good idea?

Never stopped being a good idea just not a good image.

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Tubcat's not arsed about the credit crunch, he's stocked-up.

That cat is ripe for eating, there is food for 2 weeks there.

I blame the Icelandics. Terrorist scum.

That's what some guyser in the pub was telling me too.