Pre-recession threads.

FinnLizzy

I was wondering if anyone can dig up old threads from before 2008?

Stuff that you would never see these days, along the lines of: "They're building a new estate in my village, I hope they build more!", "I don't think bankers are being paid enough here compared to other countries", "Its people like yous is the reason this country is AWSOME!" or "Nothing can replace Bebo".

Looking over our ignorance would be a bit of fun.

El Weirdo

Just use the search function.

pajunior

FinnLizzy wrote: »

I was wondering if anyone can dig up old threads from before 2008?

Stuff that you would never see these days, along the lines of: "They're building a new estate in my village, I hope they build more!", "I don't think bankers are being paid enough here compared to other countries", "Its people like yous is the reason this country is AWSOME!" or "Nothing can replace Bebo".

Looking over our ignorance would be a bit of fun.

Why don't you dig them up yourself.

SEPT 23 1989

Traffic on the M50

super_furry

Economists will be studying this thread for years to come. It's a perfect snapshot of what happened to the property market in this country and is actually a facisnating historical document.

foxyboxer

Just take a look at threads in Accomodation & Property during 2006.

mikemac

There were plenty of threads about weekend shopping trips to New York

Not so many these days

Owner of www.askaboutmoney.com here :rolleyes:
He often got mentioned over in Accomadation forum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2q7bBVAo74

Did you fill your shoes with bank shares?

FinnLizzy

El Weirdo wrote: »

Just use the search function.

'You laugh you loose' wouldn't exist with that attitude.

Saila

what recession?

pajunior

Saila wrote: »

what recession?

Gave me a chuckle.

Twee.

mikemac wrote: »

There were plenty of threads about weekend shopping trips to New York

Fashion and Appearance had a "Shopping in New York" sticky! It's been unstuck due to lack of interest

My name is URL

Here's a good pre-recession thread - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1145588

quad_red

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1145588

From 2003

Excerpt from post:

TetsuoHashimoto wrote: »

The Japanese bubble Economy was great, everyne had jobs, but then things began to run away, a bad yen, sh*tty rip-off price hikes, low interest rates fueling booming land prices. Japan once had it all but now Taiwan, Korea, China now make all the world's electronics, CDs, radio.. No one needs to be reminded of the 11 year recession that has slowly killed Japan.
Soon Ireland should follow, with Slovakia, Estonia, and other Eastern Eu states now producing whatever goods and services that Eire once did.
Japan still suffers because of price hikes and high land, flat and house prices that happened some 11 years ago, and it still feels the pain because of political dishonesty that happened 11 years ago,
any day soon Ireland should follow.

Some Responses:

Kone wrote: »

I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over

joseph brand wrote: »

Sing along with me,

(Altogether) 1,2,3,4,

'I think I'm turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so,

[Repeat]

Now laugh.

People here have nice food, cars and houses and we still moan, winge winge winge, WELL WHY DON'T YE CRY ABOUT IT!!

spongebob wrote: »

Tetsuo is pretty much right ...... may I make a few further points.

1. The Japanese stockmarket tracked land prices and crashed with them, the Irish stock market is not that intimately linked with a possible land price drop, in fact property stocks have done badly , Dunloe, Sherry Fitz and Green to mention a few.

2. Japanes Land prices were absolutely insane in 1990 or so and make ours look rational. Our house prices are probably up to 40% above fair value IN SOME AREAS and maybe 20-25% overall.

3. The corrective shock will be nasty , especially if you work for a bank but the decoupling of land and other assets has taken place in the 'real economy' so we would bounce back quicker.

4. Ireland is 30 years behind Japan on its demographic and we are prepared to IMPORT people (workers) if the workforce ages. The Japanese are very homogenised as a country and have a high dependency ratio ....albeit one with high savings except that point 1 occured.

5. The Japanese refused to do what the west does and simply written off the bad debt to get the pain over with in 2 years. The zombie companies make it difficult to get an accurate assesment of Japanese economy

M

quad_red

My name is URL wrote: »

Here's a good pre-recession thread - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1145588

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