Very OT . What have we got to complain about ?

Bloody hell

Hang on a mo, while I get another drink......

The pensioners will be bleep tered with this news. Perhaps we can get them to donate a slice bread for the poor buggar.

Regards

Kim

I got no money so what happens on the ASX doesn't worry me......lol

I wonder how much Bill Gates has lost


Stick yer money in a sock under the bedroom floorboards....it is safer there.

Hope he hasn't been taking out margin loans on his shares too.

Willie, I reckon Willem could have made a lot of money forward selling. I can't see the real logic of being able to sell shares you don't have. Otherwise you could short $100m say BHP and walk away. It's alright, I know the principles of covered and uncovered shorts. I just don't know why they want to allow it. As soon as short selling was allowed this week Wall Street crashed. It allows manipulation which is what so much of the losses are about, yes, covering losses I know but adds to others risk

Isn't it funny that those who have the most whinge the loudest .....

when is enough money enough ???

My previous employer grosses about 450 M a year - is owned by one guy - not a floated company yet pays employees CRAP money and tries to rip them off by any means possible.

Why do these people need to stock pile SO much money ??? there is so many houses you can buy - flash cars - boats - and yet they still pay employees CRAP money-- and these are the people that work very hard so that this person can stockpile such HUGE amounts of cash ........

when a boss says he cant give you a $1 per hour payrise then goes and buys a new Maybach or other expensive car --- you really have to wonder how people become so greedy and uncaring of fellow human beings .....

enough said -- will step down from my soap box now ..

Boc

To me the whole thing proves that not one person on the planet has the remotest idea how the global financial system works.

Yet again history repeats itself as the working man provides the soft cushion for the rich and powerful to fall upon when their house of cards collapses.

Take 'em out and shoot the bastards I reckon - unfortunately these greedy, selfish and rotten people will survive and prosper.

Who said Marx was wrong?

Mike Harding

OK guys , jut to ease your worries over Twiggy's losses .

You can rest easy, as the poor bugger made up over a billion dollars today, when Fortesque put on 50% .

Phew , I was concerned for him too !

I know where your coming from Willie, but he really hasn't "lost" a cent.......unless he sells his shares.

I keep hearing on the TV about about "Mr Smith" and how he has "lost everything". Well the only way you could lose everything is if you sold out of the market...which is really stupid.

The value of each share might have dropped 50% or more but in 12 months time when the shares have recovered that 50% and some, then they have made money.

If you have spare cash...now is the time to BUY and BIG!!!

Just wish I could have been the Lehman Bros CEO for a week.....at $22,500/hr I reckon I'd only do 40hrs too.

FMG has been very good to me since Friday :-)

Its a traders market and with the volatility set to remain it will remain so.

Best trading year I have had, and the last few have been very very good to me.