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Sun, 01 February 2009 19:58

pipo

Toe is in the water

Registered: July 2008
Messages: 35

Hello all,

I was wondering if anyone here has been personally touched by the recession we are having, and if so, how?

Here in mainland Europe, it started out as something happening at the other side of the Atlantic to a few stupid greedy investment bankers who had it coming anyway, then something affecting the UK and far away Iceland, but for heaven's sake it wouldn't affect the Euro countries, or would it?

A few months down the line there are ever more ominous stories in the newspaper every day... new unemployment benefit applications have more than tripled in my country and my car dealer suddenly went bankrupt.

I am thinking - what if I lost my job? I have a lot of savings, but who could have thought the bloody bank could well be failing and all my hard-earned money might evaporate overnight :-[ (luckily they have been kept afloat by the government until now).

So far it hasn't quite reached my doorstep - yet?! How about you?

		Crisis, what crisis? By: pipo on Sun, 01 February 2009 19:58
		Re: Crisis, what crisis? By: Nigel on Sun, 01 February 2009 21:31
		Re: Crisis, what crisis? By: timmy on Sun, 01 February 2009 23:32
		Re: Crisis, what crisis? By: arich on Mon, 02 February 2009 15:26
		Re: Crisis, what crisis? By: timmy on Mon, 02 February 2009 17:44
		Re: Crisis, what crisis? By: arich on Mon, 02 February 2009 19:11
		On a lighter note ... By: The Gay Deceiver on Tue, 03 February 2009 03:27

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