Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Financial Times" channel.

  1.  @kayem3824  Kay, One certainly hopes so, modulo that you mean "How England lost..."
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  2. So Brexit was absolutely moronic -- a thing that nobody could have told by simple inspection beforehand, of course... England decides to ignore the world and some of the world decides to ignore wikkle England. Wot a surprise!
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  3. Charitable of you, FT, to accept Tiger's mumble that it's interest rates that have cut its shareholders' investments in half. You don't think the fact that they were heavily, perhaps randomly, invested in fashionable-sounding but unmarketable, uh, soi-disant tigers might be the reason for this collapse?
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  4. The coda, where the moderator comes on and says "I'm sorry, these are all a bunch of loons, and we're no closer to it now than we were in 1938"?
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  5. How close are we? 93 million miles. Thank you for asking. Next question.
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  6. What part of "The negotiations are over" does this stupid woman not understand? How about "We covered that point. It's in all the Steel and Coal documents of 1948. {Sotto voce: 'Dummy''}."?
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  7. Oliver Stone is a total fruitcake. The more time he spends with Putin the less we know because whatever goes in comes out distorted. The Financial Times, already a has-been in finance, in journalism, and in financial journalism, is desperate -- and fails again.
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  8.  @johndawson6057  Who exactly what, John?
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  9.  @silverXnoise  And that's just the pink ones.
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  10. The word you're looking for is "losing," Supe. Part of the reason for this devastating loss is that a lot of their investments are not loose at all. They're stuck with off-market losers. Tight.
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  11. ARM was mostly one Chinese woman. She worked in England because England was an open part of the international market. When England Brexited itself in the throat, of course it was no longer part of that international world.
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  12.  @kevinmacisaac4856  is "sure the world is aware of what going on" Yup. Eight billion people are in on it. You're the one mooch who isn't. That rustling sound you hear as you walk around, Kevin? That's the whole world pointing at you. "Here comes Kevin, the ignorant guy..."
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  13. Basic Error: Cameron assumed that a referendum would dish the Tory right-wing, leaving him in command and the Tory Party on a path of common sense. What's the matter with his thinking back then? Simple: the Tory Party is built on a lie, that the "conservative" package is Good For Everybody. It isn't. It's good for a small minority, so to get power his party has to pander to an assortment of bigots, fools, weidos and a smattering of fascists. A majority of the electorate supporting "common-sense" conservatism does not exist. The referendum was an opportunity for the Tory ownership to show their power. All they had to do was let the majority of the Conservative Party's supporters voice their opinions. Well, there they are: racist, ignorant, foolish, all their different sorts. Not good for England. Not good for Britain. Not good for the Conservative Party. Probably not even good for the 0.01% -- but better for these last than losing control.
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  14. Pacinko.
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  15. "Investment" companies are working silly fiddles to prop up their balance sheets. Uh, to hide unmarketable dreck. Nothing new here, Dearie. In a way, I suppose it's good of you to remind us all of this widespread fraud. Could we have some follow-up articles, naming names, dates, and numbers? Possibly even putting a few people in jail?
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  16. We can't help thinking globally: the world market is one and international culture is as old as the Silk Road -- connecting the Roman Empire to its sources of silk and purple dye. Even today's stupid yobboes yowling against some notional globalism going boing-boing-boing inside their empty heads are thinking globally: they are engaging with the entire world as it actually exists.
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  17. A guy with an IQ 20~30 points higher than Donald Trump's. 15 points is a standard deviation. And "An IQ difference of 30 points means that one person can solve by inspection a problem which no amount of explanation can make clear to the other. And we encounter people over three of those 30 point bridges every day." (Sorry, I forget the source of that quote, but he's at the top of the three `30 pont bridges' -- and the notion bridge, rather than gap, is his, not mine.)
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