From: "Moonface" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Buy to Let with Uncertain Future
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 20:30:38 +0100


ginger  wrote in message
news:30fijvkeukrh2gmcl02rf9etotv8kgqtms@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:58:42 +0100, news  wrote:
>

>
> I wouldn't argue with the experience conveyed by my local estate agents or
the head man at
> Winkworths come to that (70 branches) - on news-24 last friday he told us
prices are 10%
> down in the south this year.  Locally here it's far worse.
> You need to understand that all 'perspectives' are informed by a 'pick and
mix' approach
> to a deluge of vastly differing reports - reports incidentally to which we
ALL have
> access,  and those who have an agenda, as I suspect do you, will pick
whatever bears out
> their particular prejudice.  By all means ignore or deny those who say
they can't sell
> their houses (at the price they want!) but don't expect to be taken
seriously if you do.
>
> (I see a rise in inflation has caught the BoE by surprise today - what fun
we'll have with
> interest rates)

This man is talking *The Biz*.

Correct me if I am wrong ginger, but is not the proof of the pudding of what
you are saying demonstrated for example in such things as the "halifax price
index"?

On the surface it looks interesting, but surely their houses are made up of
a "certain type of house", and it does not take into effect what could in
fact be a complex housing market made up of many micro economies?

Another perfect illustration is the election system.....we can theoretically
ellect a party who has one less overall votes than rival parties.

I think this subject and htis particular topic is far deeper than people
imagine, at the essence of what Ginger is talking about is how people can
manipulate apparant facts, scientific facts even, to suit their agenda......

If you ever see conspiracy theoriest, sometimes they manage to produce the
most amazing amount of data, evidence etc. to support their claims?
>
> > I bow to your superior
> >knowledge.
>
> But if this is how you normally greet your betters, when would you ever
enjoy the
> opportunity to straighten your back?
>
>
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