Huguenot

"I am a bit older than a teenager, unless over 50 is now the new teenagers." You know what they say about the second childhood, yes? Why are you so obsessed with the USA? Your comment about the banks and QE are plain silly. Most people did not need to vote to request that their banks didn't go bust and they lose all of their savings, but you can bet if they'd have been asked they would have voted for it. Likewise most people most certainly did vote for a stable economic environment and keeping their jobs. So yes, most people would have voted for QE.

I don't think he's concentrating Ridgley ;-)

Ha ha. You think that the kids shopping with bricks were really making a protest about Victorian attitudes in the workplace? I thought the problem was that they didn't have any work? As it happens, I think that actually you were having a dig at me according to a backstory you've fabricated in order to justify these pointless personal attacks. The idea of you lecturing me on management fills me with mirth. Those who can, do, and those who can't... indulge in anarchist rants on chat forums and blame everyone else for their lack of success?

Fourth time - why are you obsessed with the USA?

I didn't make any assumption, I have no idea how old you are. What I do know is that you're ranting like a hormonal teenager ;-) A hormonal teenager for some reason obsessed with the USA. I've asked you this twice, but you still haven't answered... why are you obsessed with the USA? Why are you so into their legislation and companies?

It's always a shame when individuals claim to represent joe public and claim to know best, when really they're only pursuing their own selfish interests. 'Not enough consultation' is code for 'If this doesn't give me exactly what I want I'm going to try and create an interminable delay and ramp the costs up, as I'm quite happy to piss away other people's money getting what I want' ;-)

"Let me tell you something about the New York stock exchange in the 1990s" Ha ha ha, please do! *wipes tear from eye* Were you even born in the '90s?

Ha ha I think it's more than that Loz ;-) NN thinks that "all banks and their assets should be seized by the government, who do not understand the products and vehicles and they have not brought onboard the right expertise to handle what is going on now" Ha ha ha. Because the right expertise would be presumably from..... the banks, who are all in on the scam. "Ring-fence bad debt", what, you mean insulate the banks against their bad decisions andd make the taxpayer pay ;-) But... but.... but... it's just not capitalism!!!! *chortle*

I must say that this is really the rudest thread we've had in ages! ;-)

Hah ha ha! NN, I thought you said our leaders were all thieves? And now you want them to seize the banks? You really haven't thought this through ;-)

I don't really give a monkeys what the Republican party may claim, they'd be as incorrect as you. The US government spent $1,500 billion last year (almost half their budget) on Medicare, Medicaid and Welfare - and this doesn't include the social programmes run at a state level. The rest of your post on an emerging kleptocracy was as demented as it was foolish. It was like noisy posturing from an attention seeking teenager. Whilst you must obviously think you're so clever that you need to publish dictionary definitions to allow the common folk to gain a glimpse of the exalted heights of your intellect, really what you're doing is insulting the many people involved in politics who work tirelessly and diligently to help other people.

"Sorry you are wrong, capitalism is no longer the system, fraud is the system" This is it, absolutely no sense of perspective - it just sounds silly and it undermines everything you say. You've made yet another false premise: that the US and UK markets claim to be 'pure' capitalism. They're not and never have been. This plaintive wheedle: "how can you have capitalism if you do not let bad banks fail" should be telling you something - essentially that WE DON'T DO CAPITALISM ;-) We live in societies that have both capitalist and socialist components. Nations are not so stupid to sacrifice their interests on the altar of teenage demands for philosophical purity.

Why don't you just apoligise for calling the users of this forum racists?

Your initial premise that the banking collapse was created by fraud is wrong. Fraud certainly had a component in the banking industry, much as it does in every business transaction, but it was not the dominant factor. As a consequence everything else is also wrong. I'm going to get Lady D a 'The End of the World is Nigh' sandwich board also. Your craving for armageddon probably means that you genuinely craved people to turn off banks in 2008. I can't think of anything so short-sighted and pointlessly destructive.

AFN, I feel quite confident that you're the only person who brought race into this. "According to this lot" is effectively calling people on this forum racists. You got banned in the past for similar baseless aggressive accusations.

"This was / is a planed coup d'?tat by bankers and financial entireties to usurp the legislature arm and the judicial arm." Please, please... can this be a Godwin? Please let this be a Godwin? Why the feck is this complete ninny still talking in Americanisms? "the legislature arm and the judicial arm" - these aren't English phrases. Next Nexus are you an American? Do you crave to be an American? Did you do the lightsaber dance on youtube? This is why I'm suggesting you're copying and pasting. Because you're incapable of talking in an English way. You mentioned on another thread you were 'keeping things simple'. In some sort of deranged way you genuinely believe what you're saying don't you? Do the boys on US bulletin boards impress you? Do you want to be like them? Did you want to start these stupid threads on the EDF because you didn't see any others like them, and you thought you could 'own' them?

I think characterising financial practitioners as thugs is going a little far don't you?

"If you know a knife or hammer is going to be abused then yes you ban it" Well there you go - it's there in a nutshell. Drastic solutions to an extraordinarily disproportionate fear.

Believe it or not, we often get similar questions in our web design work - principally because people have logos they've had for years that have fixed colours. What we need to do is identify colours the complement this - and then the designer is the one choosing how to balance these complementary colours with black, whites and greys to make sure the overall balance works. Complementary colours can be found 'technically' - this is because there are mathematical relationships between the frequencies of the colours that make up the complementary colours. So sites like this one: Color Scheme Designer or this one: Color Scheme Generator help you find those colours. Choose your existing colour first in the header section and then choose the 'type' of complement you'd like. Types are things like triad, tetrad, analogic, accented analogic and so on. Don't worry about that, just have a play!

New Nexus, that's like saying you should ban knives because they can be used to stab people, or we should ban hammers because they can be used to hit people. We'd have no food and no houses... You misunderstand financial products, take extreme positions, incorrectly claim them to be commonplace, and then use that as justification to trash the entire system. Nearly every single finanical concept you've attacked you've done so on a false premise. I'm not defending financial malpractice, I'm just refusing to take your evident misunderstandings and accellerate them to apocalyptic proportions.

So a kind of medieval commune that created a sense of identity by hating everyone else then? ;-) UK under LD..."the return of UK to a peasant economy in which there would be no class divisions, no money, no books, no schools, no hospitals. 'Reactionary religion' was banned in the constitution of January 2012. "There is no money, no commerce, as the state takes care of provisioning all its citizens. "Those who had had any connection with the previous regime were eliminated. People who were deemed to have been the lazy elite, in other words the educated and the skilled, were also disposed of."

Ha ha! And you reckon you read any of those??! Ha ha! If you'd read any of them you wouldn't be continuing to screech on about playwrights or books about third world exploitation that have no relevance to your argument. Listing publications and regurgitating invented quotes does not make an argument. You've got to stop copying and pasting mate. If you'd bother reading my post I said that the definition of the US dollar as 'the' reserve currency is nonsense. It's one of a portfolio. Countries have been trading outside of the dollar since berfore it was invented, and that it's minority trading currency anyway. If you'd read any of those things you refer to you'd know that. You don't know what you're talking about, you're just being silly.

The dispiriting thing is that every comment NN makes is about the US. He's just going to US bulletin boards, copying and pasting. It's like that rubbish about the dollar 'no longer being the reserve currency'. Does he know what a 'reserve currency' is? A reserve currency is one that's usually held indefinitely in foreign currency reserves for trading between two nations that do not otherwise support the currency internally. It's market driven, not regulated - two nations can choose to trade however they wish. Market pressures tend to limit the total number of reserve currencies, because if one of the two nations had to buy currency to make a trade they'd be disadvantaged. Over 50% of foreign currency reserves aren't 'established' reserves anyway, of the rest only 60% is US dollar. the Euro and Sterling are both strong. This means that the dollar only represents 30% of foreign currency reserves, so who gives a monkeys anyway? Well - the US gives a monkeys: it has an advantage if it owns the currency because it never has to trade currency to trade a commodity - it gives it a slight margin on every transaction. So the only country panicking about the US not being a 'reserve currency' is... the US!!! US teenagers make up silly stories about China and Russia not accepting anything else because they're trying to protect US interests. For this reason only silly English boys copy and paste US websites. SDR is nothing to do with reserve currencies. So the rest of it was just bollix.

You're kidding right LD????

"My quest for knowledge goes on alas" Hmmmm. Much like a vagrant filling his shopping trolley with the rubbish he find in the gutter.... ;-)