by manxie » 03 Apr 2020, 18:59
I think most people are being frightened at present ,.... today almost everyone has social media and the means to access all media through TV computer internet etc and are much more knowledgeable.
Being retired with an enquiring mind I often surf lots of different sites for opinions and factual pieces. Many are a bit naive some are terrible but many are laudable.
Today we are in very unusual circumstances but bear with me a while,.. look at many of the worlds recent viruses, how many seem to originate from China, after the bank crash in 2008/9 when the stocks and shares crashed who was buying up many utilities and industries? I see a pattern myself and can liken it to after the last war the "winners" paid to rebuild the vanquished, they in turn went on to amalgamate , the EU solidarity and control of europe by alternative means.
20-25 years ago Japan had a collapse borrowed trillions and recovered to now, I am thinking China is doing similar, this virus has decimated practically the whole world economy all governments are going to have to borrow trillions and increase the individual countries debts with many other options , devaluation of currencies, quantative easing, saving some and killing others off.
I maybe way off the mark I may be myself naive but of one thing I am sure we will all live in a very different world to the one we grew up in.
I am a believer that our leaving the EU was the right idea so many of the EU countries were on the verge of going bankrupt like Greece did, how can they ever hope to recover from this virus on top of it all?
The big question is can the UK still recover from Brexit and Covid 19 and be a viable player on the world scene, when I was younger the $$$$ USA was king currency before that it was the british pound, will the Yen now replace it? we are seeing the US now rapidly following Italy and Spain for confirmed cases of covid 19, deaths will follow too if it cripples the US it will do the same to all other countries.
Back to China, many around the world invested in shares in many markets recently to get a bit extra return, I have read that pretty much all of these investments went directly to the Chinese government to pay for the new navy they have formed? am I the only one who thinks they are playing the long long game to dominance?
I appreciate that you can't believe all you read or hear but often the truth is just below the surface were you to dig a bit deeper.
Thanks if you have read my ramblings I hope I have not bored you all but if I were a believer in any god I would be asking for help and praying.
Manxie xx