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Listed below are comments made by Halo572 between Monday, 21st July 2008 and Monday, 20th October 2008.

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Why power prices aren't falling 8:45pm on 20 Oct 2008 Why aren't energy prices falling? Same reason why petrol takes 2 days to go up and 6 weeks to come down. All Robert's reasons plus one more - racketeering.

Makes you think Class War and your average Trotsky revolutionary do have a point after all.

As for decoupled, it makes you wonder what all the fuss about the energy crisis in the 1970s was all about. They should have just ignored it like our markets do now.

Anyone else very, very angry or is it just me?
HBOS humbled 3:04pm on 21 Jul 2008 I have been a HBOS shareholder since the day they gave me free shares and have reinvested dividends throughout this time. Not once in any media coverage have I seen any examples of the impact upon the collapse of HBOS on the small investor.

I have 456 shares that at their peak were worth circa £11.50. That is £5244. Now they are worth circa £2.70 or £1231. which is a 'loss' of £4013. I was asked for £500 and sold my rights for £30, well that windfall paid for, er, nothing. That is still a 'loss' of £3983. Not being vaguely interested in the 'science' of the stock market I do not understand what my shares will be worth when diluted and have ceased caring. I keep my cash stockpile in a high interest bearing account and don’t really care what happens to the stock market, only interest rates. The last 7 years of endless phantom money is over forever and luckily I never believed it so am largely unaffected.

I am also lucky in the fact that my 'loss' never cost me anything in the first place, but in answer to those that ask whether the media influenced me, no, the share price below £2.75 did. Why would I want to give someone £500 for something that is worth less than that?

Face it, we are in a global recession, the money backing any form of credit was never there and house prices are collapsing as the emperor can at last no longer ignore the little boy who is telling him that he is wearing no clothes. Me? I’m off to invest in Northern Rock and Bradford and Bingley, they are a dead cert and after that a chain of buy to lets both in this country and also Spain. See you on a Channel 4 property program.

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