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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

We were watching TV last night and discussing how radically things have changed since 2008 when the credit crunch and banking crisis wrecked what turned out to be a hideously unstable economy. Back then several friends of ours were thinking about buying second properties to let or as a holiday home. And people were buying. Business'

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DECEMBER 20, 2013

The British economy seems to have turned a corner at last, five years after the credit crunch and banking crisis hit the headlines and the world we knew imploded. Looking back at the bad old days It’s hard to imagine, these days, how back in 2008 so many people were. What a year it’s been! Seasonal'

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

Hmmmm, in 2008 one of the biggest fears was that credit markets would dry up causing massive restrictions in banks lending to one another and therefore massive refusals to lend money to us. Ahem… , we all saw real estate fall in 2008, 2009 and 2010 – but do you believe that it is now on the rebound?

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 23, 2011

I graduated from college in 2008 with a degree in Finance. Do you remember 2008? Here is the recent trend: students are ready to graduate and earn their Bachelors Degree, but since the economy still looks questionable, they decide that they’ll stay in school until it comes back around.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 28, 2012

GDP fell by 25% and markets crashed far more than they did in 2008. In my view there is likely to be a lot of pain in the global economy which is weighed down by huge amounts of debt at personal, business and government levels. One striking example is the great depression of 1929.GDP

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 15, 2011

But due to the improving economy and chaos in the Middle East, the price of oil is quickly climbing back up. Will the summer of 2011 be a repeat of 2008? During the “great recession” when oil prices dipped, fuel efficiency took a backseat to other issues.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

AUGUST 17, 2011

If you want to read up on that stuff, plenty of it was written in 2008 and 2009. Here are some of the actions I could take during this downturn in the economy to benefit the long term growth of our future family members: Set up a family investment partnership or company, fund it and help the grown kids invest it’s assets.

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