Who the F**K are the markets?

nimrod86

You hear on the telly and the radio that such and such are happening to various economy's and that the markets say this or are doing that. So the whole world is collapsing and these market people seem to be sitting there with the power to topple countries! WHO ARE THEY!!!

Also, at this stage, with the whole world basically f**ked, would doing, in effect, a system restore so speak with the debts and stuf be a good idea? Put it back to 2004 -2005 when everything was relatively less screwed?

nim

AnonoBoy

Just a bunch of lads.

mikom

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Just a bunch of lads.

A great bunch of lads.

Full.Duck

http://useconomy.about.com/od/themarkets/a/capital_markets.htm read it

stimpson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meerkat

nimrod86

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Just a bunch of lads.

That's what I don't understand though! Why do a few lads in an office get to control the fate of Europe by picking numbers out of their holes?

sensibleken

nimrod86 wrote: »

That's what I don't understand though! Why do a few lads in an office get to control the fate of Europe by picking numbers out of their holes?

because everything is for sale in a free market system

orourkeda

Aldi

Oranage2

Just a few guys selling copy DVDs out of the boot of their cars.

inmyday

Never mind the markets... Who are the BONDHOLDERS???

I just dont understand!

Ruu_Old

Reboot world

[YES] [NO]



Rebooting world..........

nimrod86

nimrod86 wrote: »

You hear on the telly and the radio that such and such are happening to various economy's and that the markets say this or are doing that. So the whole world is collapsing and these market people seem to be sitting there with the power to topple countries! WHO ARE THEY!!!

Also, at this stage, with the whole world basically f**ked, would doing, in effect, a system restore so speak with the debts and stuf be a good idea? Put it back to 2004 -2005 when everything was relatively less screwed?

nim

They are the people that buy government debt using mostly private individuals money, the government pay intrest to them for buying their debt but the markets have decided Italy might not be able to pay them back if they lend the money,so they are demanding more intrest if they lend it to them.

Pure Sound

The markets from what I can gather are the statistics of us the consumers spending, so we are the markets

AnonoBoy

mikom wrote: »

A great bunch of lads.

That's the Chinese you're thinking of.

Full.Duck

Ruu wrote: »

Reboot world

[YES] [NO]



Rebooting world..........

YES

Y..... I only have to press Y, i just tripled my productivity

HellFireClub

yore ma's on the market

coonecb1

The markets are 23 year olds fresh out of business schools, whose only emotions consist of greed and fear.

parker kent

We Need Community wrote: »

The markets from what I can gather are the statistics of us the consumers spending, so we are the markets

The end of the horror movie when you finally see the monster and the character realises they are looking in a mirror :eek::eek::eek:

al28283

parker kent wrote: »

The end of the horror movie when you finally see the monster and realise you are looking in a mirror :eek::eek::eek:

Why would you watch a horror movie in a mirror?

SEPT 23 1989

I care more about what their end game is

Do these parasites want the global financial system to completely collapse?

44leto

Where you buy and sell stuff and that is exactly what they are.

thee glitz

'The markets' are hedge funds, lads and girls whose collective speculative investment decisions can influence stock and bond prices, causing chaos in the pursuit of a quick buck. Or less cynically, those who allocate capital efficiently in accordance to relative merit.

AhSureTisGrand

The markets are the people you blame for shit you done wrong.

"My shares in Anglo Irish went down. It's the markets I say!"

"Dear citizens, I appear to have squandered all your money on cocaine and timeshares in Florida. You now owe more money than I can count accurately... Damned markets. Last time I trust them. I knew it was the markets. Even when it was the bears I knew it was the markets"

parker kent

al28283 wrote: »

Why would you watch a horror movie in a mirror?

That was a typo and also post half written and interrupted by a phone call. Surely it was obvious from the rest of my post that I was talking about the character in the movie?

Saila

watch wall street the movie, it'll give you an idea.

Caveman1

Compare the meeeerrrkkaaattt.com

kwalshe

its the 2 boys from trading places with all their pork belly speculation that's wrecking "the markets"

kincsem

People in stripey coloured blazers shouting at each other?

amacca

al28283 wrote: »

Why would you watch a horror movie in a mirror?

why not?..................go on try it, you might like it.

Tandey

More importantly who is it that has the power to make the worlds money? Who produces the euro notes and why cant they just make a few trillion more and put it in our bank so we can all be rich fucker$??

al28283

amacca wrote: »

why not?..................go on try it, you might like it.

It'd ruin the shining. Why is that kid writing murder everywhere?

amacca

Tandey wrote: »

More importantly who is it that has the power to make the worlds money? Who produces the euro notes and why cant they just make a few trillion more and put it in our bank so we can all be rich fucker$??

I like your manifesto....lets put it to the testo!


(google hyperinflation in the weimar republic to see the error of your ways - ironically what you suggest will probably happen /has happened to an extent - they have a new phrase for it called quantitative easing as if you could ever hope to quantify peoples capacity or fear or losing faith in a currency)

amacca

al28283 wrote: »

It'd ruin the shining. Why is that kid writing murder everywhere?

granted....but just avoid the horror films that involve backwards/reverse writing......its not that much of a price to pay for hours of mirror enhanced viewing.

hmmm

When a country (like Ireland) wants to borrow money, they borrow from the bond markets. Most of the bond markets consist of large insurance and pension companies who are trying to invest their clients money.

Quite rightly, these companies don't want to lose their clients money, so they ask for a high rate of interest if they think they might not get their money back. Often, they won't lend to a country at all if there is too much risk. And rightly so.

Hurling accusations at "the markets" is an easy way for politicians to blame someone else for them being unable to balance the countries books.

pragmatic1

The markets are just people. You can be a part of them if you have the money.

My name is URL

They're cousins of the bankers, and nephews of the guberment.. and they live next door to Big Pharma.

tommyboy2222

http://uk.linkedin.com/in/markkett

Pal

kincsem wrote: »

People in stripey coloured blazers shouting at each other?

We don't shout. That's only in the movies.
We don't even shout on the phone.
Hell you can't even shout at somebody in the office anymore.

The blokes with the stripey jackets (locals) are old hat too except for a token few remaining in NY and Chicago for reasons of nostalgia.
Agree they might look good on the TV news but the fact is they don't do much of anything else.

Its very cynical.
"The markets" are real people who use keyboards to wreck the world.

These "markets" really don't care about wrecking everything. That's just a consequence.
Making money is the only reason they exist. Or in some cases, not losing money.

Absurdum

The "markets" are the reason we need guns, explosives and lots of canned food.

Saila

OP watch this on channel4od and the rest in the series for related stuff

Wertz

Isn't it true that much of the markets run semi-automatically on the back on complex software that buy and sell at defined price points? Fairly sure I saw something about that being some of the cause of the 2008 crash's severity on a BBC2 show a few months back... it's also a case that banks and large investment firms are recruiting code programmers and engineers rather than people coming from a purely business education background.

Turtyturd

I am the markets.

boombang

The market represent reality. You can't run your economy foolishly and expect to get away with it. The market is amoral and unforgiving. But we knew the market was there in the first place and what would happen if we screwed stuff up, yet we still screwed stuff up. I think you should direct your questions to politicians, regulators and bankers that remain in their jobs.

K-9

Seem a bit of a schizophrenic bunch to me.