scobie redux

We might finish the night off with a $5 shisha.

Is that legal?

Of course it's legal. It's just a shisha. They are as common in Phnom Penh as they are in Bangkok, perhaps more so.

Why wouldn't they be legal?

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your "real" annuities don't show the attached fineprint, i.e. the published rates in your link are meant to dupe ignorants.

LMAO Naam. You're priceless. Even when you're proven wrong, you refuse to accept you're wrong. Twas ever thus.

The conditions of each annuity is clear - index linked or not, age, guaranteed or not etc.

Just for once - just once - accept you might have got something wrong on a financial discussion. It's not a big issue. Those are quoted annuity rates advertisied on HL and on FT.com

I bought into Thai stocks years ago - back in 2009 and then they only comprise a fraction of my overall portfolio.

My property is fine. I personally haven't been in it for over two years. We have had the same tenants there in that time and they pay perfectly on time every month. My wife goes to have a look at it every few months and there are no issues.

If it devalues, no problem. We bought it as a property to live in as a bangkok bolt hole for my retirement years hence. I have no intention of selling it.

Farang tink too much.

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After decades of steroid use he must have a penis the size of a dried shrimp in a mami instant noodle cup.

There are other countries nearby that pay well over your mentioned 3% savings earnings for fixed account. Currently 9% on a 12 month

Would you mind giving examples?

Prasac in Cambodia is paying 9.75% for a 12 month term deposit in Riel, 8.5% in Thai Baht and (either) 8 or 8.5% in USD.

Staying alert is one thing, but feverish swallowing the nonsense of conspiracy websites with an axe to grind and accepting it verbatim is something else. Surely - just surely - people could see the fact that this 'story' (which was proven to be nothing in disguise) appeared only on freaky websites and not in the mainstream should have given people a clue?

No. instead, they thought it had even more credibility.

Now that the real situation has become clearer - the rational, sane situation - those nutjobs are nowhere to be seen, probably back home counting their silver coins and wearing their tin hats.

As for the Forbes story . . . . I see nothing wrong in an organsation as important as IMF drawing up contingency plans for EVERY possible scenario. It is part of their mandate. Still not going to happen, though, just like the situation in Cyprus was nowhere near as radical as that originally proposed and the only people really affected in the end were Russian shysters hiding dodgy money there.

No wonder Government, Banks etc get away with everything.... which INCLUDE the upcoming Bank account haircuts (like Cyprus) of which AmeriKa and Canada are high on the list; posters on here being flippant about NWO etc ...dudes you are seriously in denial…. Wake up <deleted>

And here we have it . . the first admitted follower of the nonsense that is NWO conspiracy.

With a nice 'like' by our goldbug OP.

went to 7-11 this morning - shop assistant made me pay for a bottle of water - are the world's oceans are drying up?

Buying gold is the answer. To everything. Got cancer? Buy gold.

Too rich? Buy gold.

Car broken down? Buy gold.

Here's another article http://www.naturalnews.com/042529_Chase_bank_capital_controls_financial_red_alert.html#

The same rehashed and wrong piece from infowars.

BBC, CNN & others probably aren't going to report this, because it's not a particularly important bit of news.

Chase has limited cash deposits & withdrawals and ended foreign wire transfers for a couple of types of business accounts. They are doing this to force small business customers to upgrade to more expensive business accounts that DO allow foreign wire transfers. This is typical of US banks, which are almost all degrading the level of service that they offer, while raising their fees.

Huh? Overseas transfers from USA banks being prohibited isn't news?

Well it would be if it was happening, but if you read this thread properly you would see that it isn't.

All that is happening is that a service traditionally offered to low value accounts is being stopped and for those account holders to continue doing transfers, they need to upgrade to a higher account and pay fees.

There is a reason this story isn't in the mainstream news. It is a simple reason: it isn't happening.

That it only appears on preppers websites, goldbug websites, extreme right wing websites and conspiracy theory websites should tell you all you need to know about this non-story.

yeah . look at the quality of the sources - first rate and totally unpartisan media outlets like Alex Jones and Ron Paul

Hasn't been picked up by one reputable news source. Somehow I think if it was real, we might have seen a bit of a sell-off in the markets and a massive uptick in the gold price, especially as those reports are a day or so old.

FYI, Chase Bank has verified the letters went out to their clients. You can attack the news source, but you cannot attack the FACT that it is taking place. So keep denying that capital controls are coming. Every failing economy in history has implemented capital controls as their currency failed, but I'm sure this time it will be different.

It is the small business accounts which are not anymore offered / allowed free outgoing wire transfers. All other business accounts still can do! This is NOT capital control, this is no more freeservice

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Did I say ALL ACCOUNTS?

So we're agreed then? All that is happening is that the bank is trying to upgrade accounts, stop a free service on lower value accounts and that there are no capital controls.

Not true. Clearly you and/or the the nonsense websites you refer to, don't read the FT.

Whooooosh . . .

I was being ironic.

My point was that the FT - owned in part by UBS but only in the sense that fund managers own shares - published that and other stories in incredible depth, thus belying the OP's nonsensical proposition.

Oh Lordy . . we have a New World Order type amongst us.

It doesn't matter what news outlet we provide you, because you will have some sort of conspiracy connected reason why it's not to be believed. Presumably the BBC is not to be trusted because of some kind of British ruling class thing being connected to jewish bankers . . am I right?

And yet you choose to believe libertynews.com, Alec Jones and the Iranian state media.

You couldn't make it up.

I have never said I believe Liberty news.com. Why. Because I've never heard of it, Laurel. You're really living up to your avatar. I have not presented any conspiracies. I've simply pointed out that I don't believe Rupurt Murdoch and large banks, who control what's disseminated on the outlets you like. If you do, I pity you. Neither do I believe Alec (sic) Jones because he mixes a lot of hyperbole and hogwash in with some truth and it's hard to tell what's what. It's no wonder you swallow everything on CNBC, etc with your inability to comprehend a simple post.

And let me remind you, I started this thread looking for answers. I don't have time to teach people who have a teach me if you can attitude. So this is goodbye. Gotta go find the iggy button. I suggest others do the same.

Excellent. Don't forget to take your tinfoil hat with you on the way out.

They're all out to get you . .

I'm going to regret getting into this with you, but please tell us what reputable news source you trust?

WSJ, FT.

WSJ - News Corp, which is controlled by Rupert Murdoch. Need I say more?

FT - Pearson PLC. Largest shareholders are UBS AG and Suntrust, both banks. And JP Morgan Chase owns a piece, too. I'm getting deja vu. So you trust that a news outlet that is owned by banks will tell you the unvarnished truth about banks. You are far more trusting than I.

You're right. None of those publications - particularly the Financial Times - covered stories like the UBS rogue trader issue. It was well hidden wasn't it, and nobody knew about it.

Of course, if you don't believe infowars and freerepublic.com how can you possibly suggest it's not a load of <deleted> when our Nazi white power friends seize upon it . .

how about this ?

Yes midas. That well known repository of truth and enlightenment . . an anonymous youtube clip but a chap with a Scouse accent using the phrase 'piss off in the report'. World class reporting and completely verified.

Good lord. Really?

Always work for yourself never for someone else to make them rich, and always pay your due taxes so you never need to worry about that knock on the door one day from the tax man coming to clean you out and shut you down as they often do in the UK.

Fascinating advice but as relevant to this thread as a tip to always wash behind your ears before you go to bed . .

yeah . look at the quality of the sources - first rate and totally unpartisan media outlets like Alex Jones and Ron Paul

Hasn't been picked up by one reputable news source. Somehow I think if it was real, we might have seen a bit of a sell-off in the markets and a massive uptick in the gold price, especially as those reports are a day or so old.

If Ron Paul is saying so I'll close my American account. If it's just AJ or Natural News, I'll wait.

My apologies. It wasnpt Ron Paul. It was another nutjob goldbug website (hence the AU) called dailypaul.com

The other esteemed websites carrying it are freerepublic.com, libertynews.com, lunaticoutpost.com and - bizarrely, or not as the case may be - it has been picked up by an Iranian propaganda website.

yeah . look at the quality of the sources - first rate and totally unpartisan media outlets like Alex Jones and Ron Paul

Hasn't been picked up by one reputable news source. Somehow I think if it was real, we might have seen a bit of a sell-off in the markets and a massive uptick in the gold price, especially as those reports are a day or so old.

OK I will tell a very simple story how I saved another guy from getting beaten up by taxi drivers: he was surrounded by 10 taxi drivers and wasn't allowed to leave. they were really going to beat him up. he didn't have enough cash that day, intoxicated and stupid enough to enter the taxi without enough cash, so in the end he couldn't pay the taxi trip. I didn't know the guy but I had seen him once before. I asked the drivers how much money is missing. they said 130 baht. I payed the 130 baht and he was out of trouble that day. The guys I was with knew him much better than me but they still didn't want to save him from that situation. we later became friends

I'm struggling to understand how your example relates to the thread. In fact, it's totally contradictory because you have basically helped out a guy who was himself trying to cheat a taxi driver out of his money.