hamburger, i did understand that ;-)
i have until february to figure it out, until then, i will work on adding money to my savings and learning about investment, diversifying, whatnot.
eh, gotta run again
deb, i'll let you know when i post the chapter i think you'll be most interested in. (on working with 'difficult' groups)
dag--
I couldn't comment on that amount sensibly but shoved into a corner and taking no responsibility I might remind you of troubles in Georgia will have caused certain offices to be lit up all night trying to figure out potentialities in relation to the market with which we are concerned here.
And there's Pakistan to worry about. And a few other things. In other offices.
For us, as Bill said, it's the gut to heed. I told you mine.
There's gold at about $850 an ounce. Plenty piled into that three or four years ago. Phew! How time flies. And the rest is lies.
But, being Uncleish, we, due to another bubble bursting, have nationalised one of our banks. Now that's as safe as you can get aside from burying gold in the hills: as many have done in the past. Northern Rock it is named. Some rock eh?
It's ironic really. First run on a bank in over 100 years and it's called after not only a rock but a northern one too.
They pay 6% I believe and they guarantee your money. Assuming the Government remains in being. Which I think it will.
Of course, in there, your capital amount would fluctuate with the exchange rate between £s and $s and thus also Euros depending what you ask for on withdrawing.
A stiff drink and a fag eh?
Settin' Aah-aah leaves it in I gather.
spendius, i do worry about Georgia (having friends and colleagues from there) and Pakistan (ditto) very much, but I have no clue what it will do to any market. Of course i can employ imagination, but that's about it.
And gold at about $850 an ounce? If you told me that at a reception, I would shake my head gravely and offered to fetch a glass of champagne...or skillfully changed conversation to something entirely unrelated, perhaps offering that gold should be measured in grams and really, why doesn't everybody drive on the right side of the road already...... but i really have no idea what that means.
i feel like i should nod and know what conclusions to draw out of all that and deal with my finances accordingly, but no conclusions are crystallizing in my head.
i do know that 6% is better than i can get at my current bank, that much i know.
dagmaraka wrote:dlowan wrote:Er...to interpolate irrelevant (to this thread) material:
Daggles, are any of your papers readily available online?
If so, might you pop a url or 2 here, or in a PM?
I'd be interested!
One of the chapters I wrote recently (on Slovak citizenship) is available here:
http://www.centerforconciliation.org/ReadingRoom.html
Also, the newsletter there are put together by me. Not that they are too fascinating, those are mostly updates on our work at the Center.
Working on a new issue of newsletter now, and will be putting another chapter up there, so check back for updates.
Also working on an entirely different chapter, based on my diss research right now, that I can email to you in a week or two, if you feel particularly masochistic.
I'm also easily google-able: Dagmar Kusa is my name. No secret, it's been posted on a2k several times. I've no secrets to hide.
I'm pickled tink by your interest :-)
Thankee...looking..
Email good....googling also will happen.
That tink shall be well pickled!
Just so you dont feel so bad Dag.
Part of my superannuation (retirement) investment reads like this:
opening balance: 31 dec 2007 $62889.04
Closing balance: 30 june 2008 $47030.68
a drop of almost $16,000
It doesn't matter to me as I cant access it until age 60 anyway so I'm not stressed about it.
