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2006 then and now Ignorance was bliss !!

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  • #2
    paul71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,291 ✭✭✭paul71


    Just read through that thread and in fairness several posters were absolutely spot on with their predictions.


  • #3
    meditraitor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,207 ✭✭✭meditraitor


    Have to say, a lot more people (normal non-economist types) seen something nasty coming than I remember.

    Nice reminder,


  • #4
    four18
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 460 ✭✭four18


    I think a few of the more informed posters saw what was coming but refused to believe the party would ever end.:rolleyes:


  • #5
    ha ha hello
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭ha ha hello


    Does anyone else, while reading that thread, feel their brain/ mind slipping into the cushy, economically-unaware, un-depressed, sunnier, unworried state of mind they had in 2006? It's mad to think how oblivious the average person was to economic worries then and how good life was.


  • #6
    declanx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭declanx


    ha ha hello wrote: »
    Does anyone else, while reading that thread, feel their brain/ mind slipping into the cushy, economically-unaware, un-depressed, sunnier, unworried state of mind they had in 2006? It's mad to think how oblivious the average person was to economic worries then and how good life was.

    I bloody wish! Property prices were already dropping (at least mine was in Navan) and job’s going. Given 3 months notice in my job. Seen a lot of job cuts in my multinational company. Emigrated to the USA in 2007.

    P.S. Around Aug-2000 the job section the broad sheets was ~30 pages. By Jan 2001 it was down to 17 pages.

    P.P.S The house I sold in Navan is worth less now then when I bought it in 2002.


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  • #7
    Squall19
    Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Squall19


    paul71 wrote: »
    Just read through that thread and in fairness several posters were absolutely spot on with their predictions.

    I think alot of people knew it was going bust then, if it was 2003 I would give some credit but 2006.I nearly finished college in 2006 and lecturers were basically telling ous if we were lucky find a job here to hold on it, that its going to be bumpy.

    My brother was mid way through his apprenticeship electrician then and his teachers as well clearly pointed out that a massive amount were getting qualified every year and there would be fair more workers than work for carpenters, plasterers, plumbers, roofers, tilers, felters, electricians etc.

    Amount of people doing trades and even in college was ridiculous for such a small country.


  • #8
    DoneDL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 902 ✭✭✭DoneDL


    And yet FAS are still doing it.


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