Before the Recession

up for anything

Came across this thread looking for something else. Life was good back then.


know-it-alls


Bertie legged it a few days later, probably on the strength of this thread.

Leeg17

Dey Tukk Ur Jobbz!

Darksaga87

Tuk er duur.

friendface

It was about how the bottom is going to fall out of the economy and we'll go back into a recession like the 80s. People have been predicting it for ages now and it will happen.

The minimum wage was set far too high years ago, its just led to prices of everything spiralling and spiralling out of control.

Lemlin for President !!

Blobby George

Don't look back in anger I heard you say.

Wazdakka

Stephen wrote:

i hope the arse falls out of the housing market. tough sh1t for a lot of builders but maybe then i could actually afford a place of my own.

there's no way we can sustain building 80,000 houses a year anyway.

:eek:

It was his fault......

Gettim

:mad:

Banned Account

Maybe it's just me but i definately reckon that there were more squirrels around before the recession.

ibarelycare

nesf wrote: »

Eh, in responce to all those going on about cyclical economics and recessions, we already had a 2 year recession in the past 4 years. Growth being below trend growth is what is termed a recession when speaking of economic cycles. The problem is that people hear the word recession and they think of the 80s. For something like the 80s to happen there would have to be an EU wide recession (imho).

Dun dun DUN!!!

Barna77

Scaremongers like McWilliams

:rolleyes:

silverharp

what happened to AH between 06 and now? seems like a civilized discussion could be had back then.

Pherekydes

Leeg17 wrote: »

Dey Tukk Ur Jobbz!

Now, they're tukkin are happy pillz!

O teh noez.

DonJose

darkman2... Bertie is that you!!!

"The economy is growing and performing well. There is no problems at the moment that cant be rectified, to say the country is heading for recession is ignorant scare mongering."
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=51476993&postcount=49

mathie

silverharp wrote: »

what happened to AH between 06 and now? seems like a civilized discussion could be had back then.

I believe it was a little thing called the 'Thanks' button and the Thankswh0res that it spawned.

mathie

DonJose wrote: »

darkman2... Bertie is that you!!!

"The economy is growing and performing well. There is no problems at the moment that cant be rectified, to say the country is heading for recession is ignorant scare mongering."
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=51476993&postcount=49

<checks his other posts to see if he told anyone to commit suicide>

Nope not him.

no1beemerfan

What recession? We are not going into recession and even if we did which is unlikely in the short term it would be nothing like the 80s

Last quote from the topic!! :rolleyes:

DonJose

no1beemerfan wrote: »

Last quote from the topic!! :rolleyes:

Yeah this recession is getting recessionier!!!

s_carnage

mathie wrote: »

I believe it was a little thing called the 'Thanks' button and the Thankswh0res that it spawned.

Totally agree, you have to go nearly 3 pages in on an interesting thread before any bit of sense is made anymore.

phill106

First reading of the prophet wertz!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Wertz

...and there's no way our economy can sustain the huge job losses in the construction industry, on which we're hugely dependen,t were that to happen, and the negative equity anyone who bought property in the last few years would find themselves in.

House prices are a self sustaining reaction at this stage...most of the increase is brought on by huge demand by people who can't really afford a €400K house but are buying one anyway in case they're €440K this time next year...no matter how big the actual demand for actual living space is, that kind of continued growth is improbable.

[edit] I didn't see this TV programme

KingLoser

I love how then, we were a bunch of congratulatory eejits, and now, we're a nation of begrudgers.

Good read!

SugarHigh

AH threads seemed to be a lot more coherent back then.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

SugarHigh wrote: »

AH threads seemed to be a lot more coherent back then.

Ya, I really wish we didn't euthanise all the good mod's back on '06...

orourkeda

Darkman2 I salute you. I haven't laughed as much for quite some time. A true legend.

DonJose

Can we talk up the ecomony now

PK2008

They predicted a bust at the end of a boom

Im impressed