Hi Everyone,
I am just getting over a severe bout of the cold and I am now back to creating and developing some new designs for my online shops. I was thinking that these present economic difficulties that everyone is experiencing was having an effect on my general health as I am usually a very upbeat person.
So now that I got over this depressing cold I will getting back to my environmental topics which I feel is much more interesting and of course retirement in general.
I will be making my own personal observations on what I myself perceive as the future in Air travel and it looks very exciting, so be prepared for a lengthy write up. In the meanwhile I have got to get some work done as I have missed three days of my work schedule due to this awful cold.
Till my next issue.
Regards to all
James
Thursday, 16 October 2008
Friday, 10 October 2008
Stop Trading .
Good Morning,
Just a quick thought for the day, as the financial markets are in free fall again why not stop trading for a few days and let governments and their financial heads meet and get some stability going here.
That I'm sure will give investors and the stock markets time to get their house in order and also get some faith back into the system.
Regards to all
Just a quick thought for the day, as the financial markets are in free fall again why not stop trading for a few days and let governments and their financial heads meet and get some stability going here.
That I'm sure will give investors and the stock markets time to get their house in order and also get some faith back into the system.
Regards to all
Thursday, 9 October 2008
Times are a changing.
Hello and Good Morning,
After yesterdays monumental news coming from both sides of the Atlantic and Asia concerning interest rates, it certainly looks as if a new world order is about to happen, if not already taking place.
Glad to see more government intervention in regards to the banking sector and especially from the UK side. The protection of peoples savings/investments from the failed Icelandic banks was an excellent plus in this sordid mess. How this arrived at this stage is anyones guess, but let's get the financial markets in better shape and then we can turn to sorting out the bank messes and the other financial institutions, indeed there has to be a reckoning in all of this, AND a lot more transparency by banks in there dealings, after all a lot of us taxpayers are in the process of bailing them out,OOPS! I meant helping.
If these banks are not lending to one another and supposedly hording money in their reserves, then I cannot see why taxpayers money is being used to assist them. The British government I believe has done the correct thing, but would go further in ordering those banks to start lending OR be taken over completely, after all we pumped enough money into the system to do it.
Yes indeed a new world order is fast approaching, and the murky and often secretive world of these financial institutions will hopefully be a matter resigned to the history books, and this "Old Boy Network" be also resigned to the dung heap where it belongs.
As our prime minister has mentioned it needs bold and imaginative thinking and I couldn't agree more, but I believe that more has to be done, enough is enough. Back to work for me and have a nice day!
Best Wishes to all.
After yesterdays monumental news coming from both sides of the Atlantic and Asia concerning interest rates, it certainly looks as if a new world order is about to happen, if not already taking place.
Glad to see more government intervention in regards to the banking sector and especially from the UK side. The protection of peoples savings/investments from the failed Icelandic banks was an excellent plus in this sordid mess. How this arrived at this stage is anyones guess, but let's get the financial markets in better shape and then we can turn to sorting out the bank messes and the other financial institutions, indeed there has to be a reckoning in all of this, AND a lot more transparency by banks in there dealings, after all a lot of us taxpayers are in the process of bailing them out,OOPS! I meant helping.
If these banks are not lending to one another and supposedly hording money in their reserves, then I cannot see why taxpayers money is being used to assist them. The British government I believe has done the correct thing, but would go further in ordering those banks to start lending OR be taken over completely, after all we pumped enough money into the system to do it.
Yes indeed a new world order is fast approaching, and the murky and often secretive world of these financial institutions will hopefully be a matter resigned to the history books, and this "Old Boy Network" be also resigned to the dung heap where it belongs.
As our prime minister has mentioned it needs bold and imaginative thinking and I couldn't agree more, but I believe that more has to be done, enough is enough. Back to work for me and have a nice day!
Best Wishes to all.
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Good news is better than no news at all.
Good Morning to you all,
Just finished my morning coffee and before I start my daily working schedule, decided to pop in and mention about the latest news from our government and their decision to inject money into some of our British banks. That in its self is good news and really at a time when we need some form of government protection to protect our savings and also our way of life as we know it.
I really wish that this position had been taken ages ago as some of us old timers saw it coming, I myself certainly did about two and half years ago when even those amongst us who are not financial geniuses realized the position of the money traders and banks needed to come under more governmental scrutiny than was being done at the time.
We are told that banks are at present hording money and not lending to each other, so by that statement what liquidity do they actually have, and why if they are indeed supposedly hording money, then why do they need tax payers money to keep them going.
I'm sure, that now that the government has taken a stake in those banks we are hopefully going to see more transparency in their statements of what their actual financial position really is.
As far as I can see we are in uncharted waters here, and being of pensionable age myself one does get concerned about the future.
The upside to all of this is, a possible a new dimension in economic thinking and possibly a more unified approach by countries in joining together in protecting the world markets from these types of financial disasters.
Once the markets have settled down there must be a clean out from top to bottom of how traders, banks and others , do dealings on the foreign exchanges, and I'm sure there is going to be a few heads going on the chopping block that's for sure.
I personally would like to see all these large bonus that were issued to these financiers being stripped and returned to help with this mess they have got us all in, and be paid in the future on successful results not as an expected norm.
I personally do not think we are out of the woods not yet anyway, as trust has been broken with the banks and financial sector and it is going to take a long time to heal the wounds.
I would also like to see a curtailing of these credit cards that are being issued by banks and others, "If you ain't got it don't spend it" it's as simple as that. Not being a financial genius, but more a common sense type person, why not have one banking card that covers all needs and for the bank that issues them create a limit that they know you are comfortable with and can re-pay, and be limited to only one, even if you have more than one bank account possibly with another bank, that card follows you everywhere and you can increase your limit on that one card either by showing you have increased your salary or capable of paying it back by showing that you can actually take on the extra increase on your limit, not hand out these plastic cards like confetti as they do now.
Well back to work, got to keep my end up so to speak, I'm sure this mess will all get sorted, but be prepared for some radical thinking and determined moves by national governments on how we all do our financial dealings in the future.
Kindest regards
Jimmy and Constance
Just finished my morning coffee and before I start my daily working schedule, decided to pop in and mention about the latest news from our government and their decision to inject money into some of our British banks. That in its self is good news and really at a time when we need some form of government protection to protect our savings and also our way of life as we know it.
I really wish that this position had been taken ages ago as some of us old timers saw it coming, I myself certainly did about two and half years ago when even those amongst us who are not financial geniuses realized the position of the money traders and banks needed to come under more governmental scrutiny than was being done at the time.
We are told that banks are at present hording money and not lending to each other, so by that statement what liquidity do they actually have, and why if they are indeed supposedly hording money, then why do they need tax payers money to keep them going.
I'm sure, that now that the government has taken a stake in those banks we are hopefully going to see more transparency in their statements of what their actual financial position really is.
As far as I can see we are in uncharted waters here, and being of pensionable age myself one does get concerned about the future.
The upside to all of this is, a possible a new dimension in economic thinking and possibly a more unified approach by countries in joining together in protecting the world markets from these types of financial disasters.
Once the markets have settled down there must be a clean out from top to bottom of how traders, banks and others , do dealings on the foreign exchanges, and I'm sure there is going to be a few heads going on the chopping block that's for sure.
I personally would like to see all these large bonus that were issued to these financiers being stripped and returned to help with this mess they have got us all in, and be paid in the future on successful results not as an expected norm.
I personally do not think we are out of the woods not yet anyway, as trust has been broken with the banks and financial sector and it is going to take a long time to heal the wounds.
I would also like to see a curtailing of these credit cards that are being issued by banks and others, "If you ain't got it don't spend it" it's as simple as that. Not being a financial genius, but more a common sense type person, why not have one banking card that covers all needs and for the bank that issues them create a limit that they know you are comfortable with and can re-pay, and be limited to only one, even if you have more than one bank account possibly with another bank, that card follows you everywhere and you can increase your limit on that one card either by showing you have increased your salary or capable of paying it back by showing that you can actually take on the extra increase on your limit, not hand out these plastic cards like confetti as they do now.
Well back to work, got to keep my end up so to speak, I'm sure this mess will all get sorted, but be prepared for some radical thinking and determined moves by national governments on how we all do our financial dealings in the future.
Kindest regards
Jimmy and Constance
Saturday, 4 October 2008
What's Next?
After my previous rant regarding fuel bills and credit crunches and banks folding and the general population running around looking for safe havens to place their savings, there doesn't seem much to write home about except to "Run for them hills". Joking apart it has been an awful couple of weeks on the financial side and probably more to follow.
I have been kept busy designing and loading my images on products for my online stores and of course having a gentle rant on my other blogs.
A great sense of relief for me anyway was the announcement that, more wave/tidal power underwater stations are hopefully going to be built in an around the Scottish coastline, and at long last someone has at last seen the LIGHT ! (no pun intended), don't know what the financial layout is going to be, but it's a step closer than having to rely on oil products all the time that's for sure, might in the long term reduce these increase in charges from the power suppliers.
I have been working on an other environmental creation regarding fuel cell technology as the previous one that I did, was a big hit in the US along with a stamp carrying the same imagery, so I have been moving from one project to another at the moment. Normally complete a design a day for upload to my online shops and then to size them to fit on the various product lines. After that, all that remains is to write a good product description and then do keywords and meta tags, once that is finished then to post them onto my shops for resale.
It all takes time and a lot of effort, but, you achieve a lot of satisfaction once it's all completed. I recommend it to anyone who has an artistic flair and are coming up-to retirement or are retired, keeps those brain cells working and have a bit of financial gain to go with it. Mind you since I started doing this work, I now put in a twelve hour day and sometimes more on occasions , but when you work from home like I do, it has lot of advantages.
Well I am going to sign off and get on with my designing . Glad to note that I have now had some interest in this particular blog.
Cheers for now
Jimmy and Constance
I have been kept busy designing and loading my images on products for my online stores and of course having a gentle rant on my other blogs.
A great sense of relief for me anyway was the announcement that, more wave/tidal power underwater stations are hopefully going to be built in an around the Scottish coastline, and at long last someone has at last seen the LIGHT ! (no pun intended), don't know what the financial layout is going to be, but it's a step closer than having to rely on oil products all the time that's for sure, might in the long term reduce these increase in charges from the power suppliers.
I have been working on an other environmental creation regarding fuel cell technology as the previous one that I did, was a big hit in the US along with a stamp carrying the same imagery, so I have been moving from one project to another at the moment. Normally complete a design a day for upload to my online shops and then to size them to fit on the various product lines. After that, all that remains is to write a good product description and then do keywords and meta tags, once that is finished then to post them onto my shops for resale.
It all takes time and a lot of effort, but, you achieve a lot of satisfaction once it's all completed. I recommend it to anyone who has an artistic flair and are coming up-to retirement or are retired, keeps those brain cells working and have a bit of financial gain to go with it. Mind you since I started doing this work, I now put in a twelve hour day and sometimes more on occasions , but when you work from home like I do, it has lot of advantages.
Well I am going to sign off and get on with my designing . Glad to note that I have now had some interest in this particular blog.
Cheers for now
Jimmy and Constance
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