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@ 28.11.2008 – 00:07:13
Market woes threaten UN aid goals
By Anita Rice
"Aid groups fear developed nations will not commit to firm aid targets [GALLO/GETTY]
Rich countries must not use the banking crisis as an excuse to backpeddle on aid commitments, leading charities have warned ahead of a Doha-hosted United Nations (UN) summit on development."
http://english.aljazeera.net/business/2008/11/20081127162730663628.html
DominicGee
metyu
Hi G
Sadly I missed it. Can you remember any specifics? I'll try to find on the website.
A new friend of mine - I say friend, more acquantance but his wife thinks I'm great ... lol ... - anyway this new friend has been around a while, and we got talking about markets in Feb this year. He told me about some property cycle, that lasts 25 years. Basically property is a rubbish investment now for at least 12 years; I should invest in oil, wheat, rice, sugar.
Not that I have anything to invest, but I think his wider point is that economic cycles (much like weather cycles) fluctuate over a variety of types and lengths of cycles, producing fractal graphs, rather than simple bell-shaped-curves that most lay-people (i.e. those with little or no training in maths and sciences) believe dominate life on this beautiful planet.
Anyway I'm rambling, get me those quotes! 
M.
DominicGee
They haven't uploaded it to the BBC website yet, still got last weeks on, I'll keep looking though. All I've found so far is a forum where one person says on his performance last night we should make him treasury minister, so I'm not alone.
Yes, I think the bell-shaped curve is too simplified - practically any graph with Time measured along the bottom is going to be a bell-end (haha) if you stretch and squew it enough (eg, sunlight during the day, number of brain cells in your life, pleasure during sex etc), so it's really not that useful and ends up being misleading.
Has the 25 year property cycle got anything to do with the fact that that is how long most mortgages last?
metyu
I have no idea but that's a good question and I shall ask Paul when I see him.
I guess it would be related to mortgages, but that would just be one factor in many. I would suggest that there may be a generational influence as well.
DominicGee
If you have an hour
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fqpfj/b00fqpbm/Question_Time_27_11_2008/
it's too soon to find quotes though.
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Did you watch question time last night? That CEO of Sainsbury's that was on it - it's dude like that that make me believe in capitalism. He knew exactly what he was talking about, he new what the crack was inside out, spoke really well and had a definite understanding of what was happening and what to do. Made the politicians look like such lightweights. Apparently the Labour party believes that the recession will be over mid next year, so that is what they are preparing for. Six months down the line they're gonna have to think of something else.