[Pete10]

.....no drama BVC, love a chinwag about the global economy. Would be a simple solution to cancel the debts, but the time to do it would be when Lehman collapsed, maintaining the status quo is the course we are on, like it or not.

Once the Euro is sorted, (my guess is Greece exits), or Germany spits the dummy and breaks up the whole thing, the markets will calm down, as I said could take ten to fifteen years for that to unravel, slow crawl out of recession is on the cards. Not so bad as Japan did ok for ten years with zero growth, no bad thing.

Re inflation, (didnt mean leverage), if base rates/ interbank lending rates are kept close to zero whilst inflation continues at 4%, the real value of your debts are dimishing by the difference every year.....this is the plan, its a simple wealth transfer from the retired (looking for interest on savings) to those who holds debts (typically those of working age with houses, kids and credit cards) as they will spend more with cheap money hence stimulating the economy into growth.....you see, not that bad after all......my mortgage payments are down to nothing but I have to put up with my retired mum moaning about a 2% yield on her barclays bonds......!!!!!

Good question.....poles are gardeners, natch! 

[BVC]

....Pete, will have to agree to disagree my friend... apart from one thing................


































Gardiner poles are da bomb!!!!!!!!!!!!

BVC.

[Londoner]

I reckon a lot of these newbies have their backs against the wall and are not going to give up that easily. They may be making mistakes but they should be learning from them.

More important to look at is the situation ie jobs and money that brought them to the decision to try their luck at window cleaning. That affects the customers as well. I believe the customer pool is shrinking and will continue to shrink as money for non essencial services is needed elsewhere.

[Pete10]

.......haha, no problem there mate, if it does collapse I'll expect a call from you in your bunker larfin yr ass off!!!!!!

Gardiners indeed are "da bomb"

P

[CLEANCARE WC]

who owns Greek debt? we will only know when the greeks default.....until then it can stay on the books as an asset....rocky road ahead but dont see a meltdown. no meltdown though (in my opnion), not so bad after all.....

I agree to some degree pete, however, like I said, I dont believe the collapse will come as a result of the debt based fiat currencies used by the major word players, but that the social elite will instigate a crash and use the ensuing panic to introduce a new system. I really do not believe that debt based currencies can continue indefinately. Every bubble bursts eventually. Our current finacial system is no different. Whether it's Tulips, houses or paper currency they all burst.

I also agree debt is not a bad thing and can be used to leverage much gain, however when you can barely pay the interest on your debt, It doestn't take einstein to take a punt at the result.

So my question to you would be.. Why spend the rest of your life trying to pay of an ever increasing debt, when you can wipe the slate clean and start all over again? We have borrowed against our childrens incomes and the incomes of our chilrens children. Take a look at the next generation. Are they seriously going to spend their lives paying off our debt? They are more concered with their xbox's and facebook accounts (a sweeping generalized statement that could come back and bite me in the bum, I know, but I stand by it!)

Personally I couldnt care less about the financial markets. 35,000 Children died today from starvation
I am just a window cleaner with a bit to much thinking time, so if you do know better, or you have letters after your name, go easy on me

anyway. to keep the mods happy, What pole do you use?


Be cool


BVC.

you been watching tv again?

[g.brookes]

when i look down one of millions of streets in the uk and see 200 hundred houses and i think to myself- 'thats about 2-3 weeks work right there', i dont care how many people start up windows cleaning.  there are so many more potential customers out there.

[BVC]

.......haha, no problem there mate, if it does collapse I'll expect a call from you in your bunker larfin yr ass off!!!!!!

Gardiners indeed are "da bomb"

P

I might even let you in if you ask nicely...   Bring your slx and a bag of rice though....




BVC.

[SB Cleaning]

when i look down one of millions of streets in the uk and see 200 hundred houses and i think to myself- 'thats about 2-3 weeks work right there', i dont care how many people start up windows cleaning.  there are so many more potential customers out there.

I agree mate

[Perfect Windows]

when i look down one of millions of streets in the uk and see 200 hundred houses and i think to myself- 'thats about 2-3 weeks work right there', i dont care how many people start up windows cleaning.  there are so many more potential customers out there.

Someone who cleaned just one in ten of the privately owned houses within five miles of where I live could run 26 full-time vans running flat out.  That's ignoring every flat, every commercial job and every council estate.  Given that I have streets where I now do half the houses, by that measure you could run 130 full-time vans.

Vin

[BVC]

when i look down one of millions of streets in the uk and see 200 hundred houses and i think to myself- 'thats about 2-3 weeks work right there', i dont care how many people start up windows cleaning.  there are so many more potential customers out there.

Someone who cleaned just one in ten of the privately owned houses within five miles of where I live could run 26 full-time vans running flat out.  That's ignoring every flat, every commercial job and every council estate.  Given that I have streets where I now do half the houses, by that measure you could run 130 full-time vans.



Vin

Daddy like....... 10% of your immediate catchment area.. Relentless leaflets on a monthly basis (think pizza hut) Cant be that hard.


Maybe you could even charge a fiver and have the lot away. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!


BVC.

[Perfect Windows]

Come and buy a franchise.  You know it make sense!

[CLEANCARE WC]

when i look down one of millions of streets in the uk and see 200 hundred houses and i think to myself- 'thats about 2-3 weeks work right there', i dont care how many people start up windows cleaning.  there are so many more potential customers out there.

Someone who cleaned just one in ten of the privately owned houses within five miles of where I live could run 26 full-time vans running flat out.  That's ignoring every flat, every commercial job and every council estate.  Given that I have streets where I now do half the houses, by that measure you could run 130 full-time vans.



Vin

Daddy like....... 10% of your immediate catchment area.. Relentless leaflets on a monthly basis (think pizza hut) Cant be that hard.


Maybe you could even charge a fiver and have the lot away. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!


BVC.

you never reply to me, so im not replying to you!




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