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US House votes against $700bn bailout

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    #2
    Pj!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Pj!


    Already one of the 'against' voters asked could he change his vote.

    Its a mess there now.


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    #3
    BroomBurner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭BroomBurner


    Sure we would have been f*cked either way. Where did the US government think they were gonna get 700 billion dollars all of a sudden?


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    #4
    Pj!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Pj!


    Probably.


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    #5
    ninebeanrows
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    We're fuked, their fuked, everybodies fuked.


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    #6
    Run_to_da_hills
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    BroomBurner wrote: »
    Where did the US government think they were gonna get 700 billion dollars all of a sudden?
    The World Bank, I.E. the same shower that will eventually enslave us all with microchips :eek:


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    #7
    Mena
    Registered Users Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Mena


    Is this the start of the end? TO THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL FORUM!

    edit* I wasted post 500 on that? :/


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    Pj!
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    America's f*cked anyway.

    Who'll be the next superpower? Russia or China?


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    Darragh29
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    Forky wrote: »
    Already one of the 'against' voters asked could he change his vote.

    Its a mess there now.

    There's reports of people jumping out of windows down at the IFSC, AIB in Walkinstown is on fire, George Lee is burning on a pyre outside RTE, martial law has been declared...

    :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:


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    #10
    Rossibaby
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    :Dgreat stuff

    any words of a private takeover,i sure hope not.this is a mess indeed i woul have thought it was a done deal


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    The tax man
    Registered Users Posts: 4,557 ✭✭✭The tax man


    I'm off to the Chuck Norris thread. Everything will be ok over there.:pac::pac:


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    Pj!
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    Darragh29 wrote: »
    There's reports of people jumping out of windows down at the IFSC, AIB in Walkinstown is on fire, George Lee is burning on a pyre outside RTE, martial law has been declared...

    :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

    Haha.
    But seriously this is possibly the most important single economic decision in our lifetimes. They voted no, and now none of em know what to do. Thought Ireland was bad.

    They might do a 'Lisbon' on it. - That wont do, vote again.


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    Darragh29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,097 ✭✭✭Darragh29


    Forky wrote: »
    Haha.
    But seriously this is possibly the most important single economic decision in our lifetimes. They voted no, and now none of em know what to do.

    I'm looking at Sky News here and it's errily like the type of coverage you'd have seen immediately after 9/11 or as the events were unfolding on that day...


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    #14
    LEIN
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    What does this mean for us now?? Higher taxes??


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    #15
    BroomBurner
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    Seriously though, what's the big deal? The world ebbs and flows and they're all getting what they deserve.

    *I'm typing this from my reinforced bunker in my back garden, burning Dollar notes for warmth


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    Darragh29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,097 ✭✭✭Darragh29


    damo9090 wrote: »
    What does this mean for us now?? Higher taxes??

    Basically the floors have fallen out of the banking system, so when you go into a bank now, you'll have to go to the window at the front of the building and do your business with the cashier there, because there will be a big huge gaping hole where the floor used to be in the bank! :D:D:D


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    brianthebard
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    Rossibaby wrote: »
    :Dgreat stuff

    any words of a private takeover,i sure hope not.this is a mess indeed i woul have thought it was a done deal

    Of the US? I don't think even JP Morgan could afford that bad debt situation.


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    TPD
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    Forky wrote: »
    Who'll be the next superpower? Russia or China?

    I vote China. I looove Chinese food.


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,384 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    damo9090 wrote: »
    What does this mean for us now?? Higher taxes??

    No, because when you lose your job, you won't have to pay them :D
    Thank fvck I got out. Not that here is going to be any better, but it's not going to be any worse.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    Quazzie
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    I for one welcome our... Holy fook who's gonna be our overlords now that the yanks are fooked??


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    Zonda999
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    http://farm1.static.flickr.com/213/522169398_c6f4c005fa.jpg?v=0

    "You" meaning all of us


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    #22
    dsmythy
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    There's no tall financial buildings here in Swords to jump from. Have to travel into town. Bloody traffic...


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    #23
    constitutionus
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    watch the ISEQ tomorrow.

    you wont see a financial expert for love nor money. theyre trying to blame either your woman pelosi or the republicans as a whole (result was 205 yeah to 228 nay)

    either way wall street was still open and the dow has collapese by 500 points. people shatting themselves from a great height on the news since 7 o clock.

    best bit of bloodsport ive seen in ages :)

    yes there WILL be a "lisbon" on this and they'll be forced to vote again but not till tomorrow (or at least till wall st shuts for the day) and even then theres no certainty it wont be an even bigger no.

    just like lisbon :D


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    #24
    abitlonely
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭abitlonely


    Yup, that market will rise up a bit until some deal is done, then all will
    be back to something resembling normal. Great time to buy shares*






    *nay not be a great time to buy shares.


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    LEIN
    Registered Users Posts: 9,936 ✭✭✭LEIN


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    No, because when you lose your job, you won't have to pay them :D
    Thank fvck I got out. Not that here is going to be any better, but it's not going to be any worse.


    Working in the Health Service so safe atm :D


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    #26
    ninebeanrows
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    The DOW could be doing worse IMO

    Only down 591.70 (5.31%)


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    Agamemnon
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    Forky wrote: »
    America's f*cked anyway.

    Who'll be the next superpower? Russia or China?
    Why not us? Think big. Now that the US is in economic turmoil, we can buy their aircraft carriers and nuclear subs at a knock-down price and take over the world. Historically, we've only experienced the shitty end of the imperialist stick, so it'll be a good laugh to be the big boys for a change. Glorious times lie ahead for the invincible Irish empire: the nukes will fly like snot in a flu ward and we will paint the globe emerald green and blood red! \o/


    /goes for lie down


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    abitlonely
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭abitlonely


    Weathercheck wrote: »
    The DOW could be doing worse IMO

    Only down 591.70 (5.31%)

    The DJIA can be misleading as it's price weighted.
    The S&P 500 is more meaningful, down 7%.
    Down 5.31% is actually pretty bad news.


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    OPENROAD
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    constitutionus wrote: »
    either way wall street was still open and the dow has collapese by 500 points. people shatting themselves from a great height on the news since 7 o clock.


    To put things in context here, that is a drop of 5% approx, in 1987 the fall was nearer 20%.


    The US WILL do something, i.e. another plan will be put forward except this time they will make sure it is pushed through.


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    #30
    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    Stock beginning to tank towards close

    -671.51 (6.03%)


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    DarkJager
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    Agamemnon wrote: »
    Why not us? Think big. Now that the US is in economic turmoil, we can buy their aircraft carriers and nuclear subs at a knock-down price and take over the world. Historically, we've only experienced the shitty end of the imperialist stick, so it'll be a good laugh to be the big boys for a change. Glorious times lie ahead for the invincible Irish empire: the nukes will fly like snot in a flu ward and we will paint the globe emerald green and blood red! \o/


    /goes for lie down

    When we get all this military might, can I suggest our first action be to nuke France? :D


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