BobF
IBTL

I doubt it Bob - this thread was started by a host.
 
 

U.S. stocks plunged at the open on Friday, with the Dow Jones average falling more than 500 points, after Britain's vote to quit the European Union delivered the biggest blow to the global financial system since the 2008 financial crisis.
 
Investors worried about the outlook for the world economy sought refuge in the dollar and other safe-harbor assets such as gold and U.S. Treasury bonds, while dumping riskier shares. The yield on the U.S. 10-year bond hit its lowest since 2012.
 
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-stocks-idUSKCN0Z918E

i genuinely don't understand the anti-eu stuff, they've done far more for the uk than not :-/
 
do you guys really believe the government will do better on its own? and if so, please spare some time to share some info

I am just wandering around in a daze. Totally devastated. I am close to a rant that would be the biggest TOS violation ever, so I will shut up and say no more.

I genuinely believe the UK - or any country - will do better without a large regulatory body full of faceless bureaucrats and career politicians who have the power to shape the fortunes of businesses they don't really understand (because most of them left college and went straight into politics). It was the EU which claimed that Microsoft was being "unfair" by bundling its own browser with Windows. That to me summed up the way in which these bureaucrats perceive economic freedom - they don't believe in it. And of course they responded to Brexit with the usual scaremongering and threats - if you leave the EU, we'll impose tariffs and restrict trade with you. In reality, once the hoo-haw has died down, they won't do anything to penalize their own countries by restricting trade with the UK. You don't need a monster like the EU for free trade. 

I hesitated starting this thread because technically it involves politics, and we try to stay away from incendiary topics here. But this is far more than politics, it's a cultural and economic upheaval the likes of which the UK has not seen since WWII. And it'll affect all of us no matter where we are in the world.
 
And frankly, my first thought after reading the headline was "some plugins are gonna be cheaper now". 

And here I thought Brexit was a new shampoo.  
 
 
Tee Hee...I said sham and poo. I'm so juvenile.
 

SteveStrummerUK

BobF
IBTL

I doubt it Bob - this thread was started by a host.
 

In that case ...
 
When can we start pushing our overlords (Feds) back in their box?