Ah , ordinary people can’t borrow money to spend

Borrowing money doesn’t get cheaper for them ( it is , may be for the government )

they don’t have money to spend

Inflation cannot go up massively

Borrowing is extremely feasible in times of high inflation, due to the time value of money. Of course, people who do it need to be financially competent.

Now to invest in the stock market as cider says it’s good to invest in stuff
But who is producing stuff that is making money , big profits ?
Well some do - but that’s been factored into the share price already it’s old news
So now there is a difficulty - but it’s not just the difficult task of knowing in advance which
companies producing which stuff are going to be successful

There is also the major and much more serious problem that maybe there won’t be any such companies
They won’t be there , not really , not as they have been , they won’t exist

Who are you shorting ?

Johnny, it's not really about tipping single shares for me. I'm saying get into equities where the core business is making stuff, producing stuff and selling stuff that people will likely need for the medium to long term. A ftse 100 tracker would be a reasonable, lazy way to approach it as that has quite a few of those types of businesses. Or a value factor fund for example. A water based fund for something a bit more risky.

I have been working in the investment markets for the last 36 years and find some of the comments on here highly amusing. How much do you lot charge for your glorious insights.

Try my best, that's great news, fire ahead, always willing to listen and learn.

Try My Best. Have you ever worked in a company that has outperformed an index tracker for any length of time.

I charge for my services pecker and for a good reason. Send me a cheque and I will gladly oblige. Nothing is for free.

You've just given us a laugh for nothing.

one t

on a rope

We all know you are a corrupt bunch of insider thieves

Pump and dump

Short everything with your trillion trades by alto daily


You think you know things worth paying for but in reality you could not wipe your arse without cheating.

Whats certain is the vast majority of people who work in the investment industry are incapable of consistently making above average returns.

We are not being helped by you though, try my best.

You talk the talk

Now give us that expert overview.

If you were a plumber pecker would you go out to a customer and tell them what they need to do, spend time with them giving your professional view and expertise and incur travelling costs and then go without being paid.

Theres plenty of good advice about investment strategy online from the likes of Buffet and Munger and closer to home Terry Smith that is well worth watching. They all share similar views about the fund management/investment industry as well.

Individuals like Buffett lost a hell of a lot of money in the 2008 crisis and his Berkshire Hathaway Group lost its AAA rating. Does that make him a bad investor. Certainly not. There would have been plenty on here who would have demonised him and his investment strategy. The "Sage of Omaha" is still one of the guys who I personally look up to.

Just looked it up Dotchinite. Mr Buffert lost as an individual $23 billion in the 2008 financial crisis. On a morality front do you lot think that Steve Eisman who got wind of the impending doom about to be played out in the US property market and shorted CDO's to make his clients millions is a cheat with low morality or someone who did his job while millions of americans lost their homes and jobs. Was Michael Bury a man without conscious and who was smart in realising that mortgage bonds were full of crap. They did their job no matter how unpalatable it may to some on here.

I’m interested in the 28 billion loss
And the fortunes made overnight