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To: ScreamingFist

She is worried about this worlds investments. Get a clue.


64 posted on 05/16/2011 5:54:57 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: justa-hairyape
She is worried about this worlds investments. Get a clue.

Oh I see now. You two morons shorted Japan stock.....

65 posted on 05/16/2011 5:59:50 PM PDT by ScreamingFist (Quiet the Idiot)
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To: justa-hairyape; ScreamingFist; RummyChick
Actually, what she said was: What happens in Japan has a HUGE impact on my finances.

That's not "investments", and that's not "this world's investments".

What happened in Japan has effected a lot of our finances. Things are more expensive, some products are harder to find. Businesses have had to route flights around the damaged areas.

Now, none of the real upheaval in finances, markets, and investments has anything to do with the nuclear plant. But taking Japan as a whole, the earthquake and tsunami caused tremendous devastation, far beyond (and this is a prediction I am making) any final "fallout" from the nuclear plant. The most dangerous thing in Japan wasn't building a nuclear plant, it was putting a house on the ground near a fault line and the ocean. That's what killed thousands of people, and destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands more. Not a nuclear plant.

It's like watching a hurricane destroy a state, and then complaining about how a local shop didn't secure their sign well enough and it fell over and smashed your car. Sure, for the guy who owns the car it's a "tragedy", but in the grand scheme of things, it's only a little part of the big picture.

On the other hand, I take some small amount of comfort that we are now reduced to arguing over whether the 1st plant's nuclear fuel melted 16 hours after the accident, or 36 hours after the accident. There was a time when we were worried about much worse things happening at the plant, now we are doing introspective analyses. THings are getting somewhat stable when you start arguing over blame and cause.

73 posted on 05/16/2011 7:47:15 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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