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This lady in the leopard print gleefully celebrating the loss of trillions of dollars and economic destruction of her country.
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Economics chat: I am extremely worried about this loving up the USD-Yen exchange rate again. It was pretty rough for our partners for a while there when the yen was 90 or less against the dollar and it made any trip to Japan eye-crossingly expensive. It also makes exporting things like game software unattractive because the partners get less value per dollar. It was a pain in the rear end trying to set up my little localization business in the long wake of the 2008 financial crisis, and I was happy that things had finally stabilized a bit. This is going to be worse than it ever was, isn't it.  breaklaw posted:Scotland might be out of the UK in 5 years time but what about Northern Ireland? Would they actually really leave the union over this? Twitter is saying so but I can't see it. If the population and local government decide they want to remain in the EU & retain EU benefits, then hell yes Northern Ireland will vote to split from England in some fashion. This has an extremely real danger of breaking up the United Kingdom, and a lot faster than five years. Edinburgh and Belfast are going to listen to their constituents and pay attention to their economic self-interest.
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Jun 24, 2016 06:03
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axeil posted:Will there be new elections? If labour and the SNP win can they tell the UKIPers and other idiots to gently caress off and cancel the exit? almost certainly. cameron will resign tomorrow morning or maybe on monday, the tories won't be able to put up a candidate, chaos reigns
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Jun 24, 2016 06:04
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axeil posted:https://twitter.com/wmyeoh/status/746150360318763008 In all fairness, those increasing life expectancy numbers are probably overly optimistic now.
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breaklaw posted:Scotland might be out of the UK in 5 years time but what about Northern Ireland? Would they actually really leave the union over this? Twitter is saying so but I can't see it. Sinn Fein are calling for unification elections, sooooooooo
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Jun 24, 2016 06:04
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Is there anyway that jackass Nigel Ferage can be made PM.
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Jun 24, 2016 06:05
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Unpopular opinion on places like this, but I think once things settle in a few weeks England will kind of balance out, at least as far as a lot of the pound panic goes. This does not mean England will have 0 connections to the EU or anything ridiculous like that, but yeah this is a pretty big loving deal. Can't help but to feel in the long term UK is going to really need to strengthen trade with the rest of the Anglo world and India. Also, this will definitely embolden far right groups throughout Europe proper. Interesting times.
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Jun 24, 2016 06:05
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blue squares posted:No it doesn't. It's a shiny rock. Purestrain gold is a more logical basis for currency than anything else. Edit: nm, should've checked the post count
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Jun 24, 2016 06:06
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Welp, no European tax ID number for me!
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Jun 24, 2016 06:06
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Hollismason posted:Is there anyway that jackass Nigel Ferage can be made PM. Prime Ministers are the leaders of the party with the largest number of votes. Unless Farage goes over to the Tories, he'll never have that kind of majority. UKIP is tiny. They're the Libertarian Party of England.
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Jun 24, 2016 06:07
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Space Bat posted:Gold is immutable and has inherent value. You should have listened, but did you? No. gently caress you.
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Jun 24, 2016 06:08
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straight up brolic posted:lmao at this post he's not wrong you know
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Jun 24, 2016 06:09
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Why stop at gold, brits buy as much bitcoin as you can now!!!! For the love of god don't.
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Jun 24, 2016 06:11
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SpaceDrake posted:This has an extremely real danger of breaking up the United Kingdom, and a lot faster than five years. Edinburgh and Belfast are going to listen to their constituents and pay attention to their economic self-interest. Not long ago Scotland had a referendum to leave UK and stayed in only by a hairs width anyway. This just gives them another excuse to try pulling the trigger again.
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Jun 24, 2016 06:11
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unlawfulsoup posted:Unpopular opinion on places like this, but I think once things settle in a few weeks England will kind of balance out, at least as far as a lot of the pound panic goes. This does not mean England will have 0 connections to the EU or anything ridiculous like that, but yeah this is a pretty big loving deal. Can't help but to feel in the long term UK is going to really need to strengthen trade with the rest of the Anglo world and India. Also, this will definitely embolden far right groups throughout Europe proper. I mean they don't use the Euro so at least they avoid that, but it's like shooting yourself in the foot and saying "well at least it wasn't with a shotgun." The short term economic damage alone makes it not worth it since they're still going to take immigrants and not kick out all the Pakistani people or whatever UKIPers want. They get nothing out of it and hurt themselves in the process. Is David Cameron the dumbest prime minister in UK history?
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Jun 24, 2016 06:11
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smell this posted:he's not wrong you know
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Jun 24, 2016 06:12
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axeil posted:The big question: does this mean the UK is not invited to next year's Eurovision iceland and switzerland get to go, but it would be extra hilarious if britain is specifically barred from entering
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Jun 24, 2016 06:12
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At this point there's probably a chance they'd vote to end Democracy all together and reinstate the Monarchies powers.
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Jun 24, 2016 06:13
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How soon we forget.
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Jun 24, 2016 06:13
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axeil posted:I mean they don't use the Euro so at least they avoid that, but it's like shooting yourself in the foot and saying "well at least it wasn't with a shotgun." The short term economic damage alone makes it not worth it since they're still going to take immigrants and not kick out all the Pakistani people or whatever UKIPers want. They get nothing out of it and hurt themselves in the process. Don't get me wrong, I am not really saying this was a good idea. I just don't see a UK apocalypse or anything.
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Jun 24, 2016 06:14
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Hollismason posted:At this point there's probably a chance they'd vote to end Democracy all together and reinstate the Monarchies powers. Long live the Queen!
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Jun 24, 2016 06:14
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Lemming posted:Lmao you loving idiots
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Jun 24, 2016 06:14
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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straight up brolic posted:what is the inherent value of gold? it's just a less volatile market. If you put your money in bonds it'd be more or less equally well off Gold? No. But silver is a different story.  
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punk rebel ecks posted:Gold? No. But silver is a different story. gently caress off Silverfag. Go back to Reddit. gently caress you.
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Jun 24, 2016 06:15
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I like Scotland being like " Uh these guys aren't our friends, really we just caught a ride here with them, we don't really know them"
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Jun 24, 2016 06:16
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Space Bat posted:Gold is immutable and has inherent value. You should have listened, but did you? No. gently caress you. Or bitcoin, right?
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Jun 24, 2016 06:16
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Space Bat posted:gently caress off Silverfag. Go back to Reddit. gently caress you.
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Jun 24, 2016 06:16
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axeil posted:I mean clearly they are not otherwise stay would've won in a landslide, but the point it's making is there's a strong age differentiation and leaving will gently caress them longer than those who voted to do it. why not factor in how well-informed one's opinions are, which roughly correlates with age hold on
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Jun 24, 2016 06:17
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unlawfulsoup posted:Don't get me wrong, I am not really saying this was a good idea. I just don't see a UK apocalypse or anything. Oh. True. Yeah they'll still be there it's just...why in the Queen's name would you do this? Generations from now people are still going to be confused as poo poo by this.
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Jun 24, 2016 06:17
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EVERY loving METAL LOOKS LIKE SILVER. GOLD IS YELLOW!!!
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Jun 24, 2016 06:17
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Britain drunkenly vomits all over the European Unions Couch. Scotland disavows their friendship.
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Jun 24, 2016 06:18
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So is this gonna be "GFC 2: This time it's Britain!"?
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Jun 24, 2016 06:18
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Space Bat posted:EVERY loving METAL LOOKS LIKE SILVER. GOLD IS YELLOW!!! Bromine  poo poo is bromine a metal? Uh if not then pretend j said Copper up there. Hollismason posted:Britain drunkenly vomits all over the European Unions Couch. Scotland disavows their friendship. Northern Ireland gets back with its ex and pretends the time they stabbed them didn't happen.
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Jun 24, 2016 06:19
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How likely is Scotland and Northern Ireland leaving the UK now?
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Jun 24, 2016 06:21
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unlawfulsoup posted:Unpopular opinion on places like this, but I think once things settle in a few weeks England will kind of balance out, at least as far as a lot of the pound panic goes. This does not mean England will have 0 connections to the EU or anything ridiculous like that, but yeah this is a pretty big loving deal. Can't help but to feel in the long term UK is going to really need to strengthen trade with the rest of the Anglo world and India. Also, this will definitely embolden far right groups throughout Europe proper. The shock will wear off, but governments and multinationals are going to make this as painful for the UK as possible to let voters in other countries know what awaits them if they try something similar.
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Jun 24, 2016 06:21
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Crowsbeak posted:How likely is Scotland and Northern Ireland leaving the UK now? Scotland just had a referendum that barely sided with stay but given the new reality and the SNP having almost every seat in Scotland you can bet they'll try and get another vote. For Northern Ireland who knows, but Irish unification would be hilarious as a result of this.
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Jun 24, 2016 06:22
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hooman posted:So is this gonna be "GFC 2: This time it's Britain!"? Not necessarily, the incoming reaction is just a manifestation of how no one knows what the gently caress is about to happen and as such, PANIC PANIC SELL SELL  I'm not very hopeful though.
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Jun 24, 2016 06:24
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Crowsbeak posted:How likely is Scotland and Northern Ireland leaving the UK now? More likely than any time in the last 30 years, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.
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Jun 24, 2016 06:24
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hooman posted:So is this gonna be "GFC 2: This time it's Britain!"? It's not yet clear because it's early. The Nikkei is down over 8% because the yen jumped 5% on even the dollar. Hang Seng and the other Asian markets are only down 4%. Rumors are that the Europeans are planning for a blood bath and the US seems destined to lose 4-5% tomorrow as well. The long-term effects are less clear. It could result in the remaining bits of any asset bubbles popping or it might not. Companies that depend on exports to Europe are screwed for sure, but other companies may just suffer from the general markets (perhaps not at all after the next few weeks). We also will probably see a couple tenths of a percent of GDP growth cut at a minimum, and we probably won't see any interest hikes now. No matter what though, the U.K. is hosed though.
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axeil posted:Scotland just had a referendum that barely sided with stay but given the new reality and the SNP having almost every seat in Scotland you can bet they'll try and get another vote. I haven't been keeping up on the Ireland thread but I'm assuming that's still its own shitshow. Long live the Free State of Belfast, maybe?
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