I hope that by now, we had the opportunity to have another look at Mervyn's original post on this topic, and noted the " " wrt to the Ocean front/view property; perhaps a Sarah P reference.
George is making a good point wrt Investment. It is the same principle as Info on brochures and their "invitation to treat". Only the naive will believe them jc On 2 June 2012 15:23, George Pinto <georgejpi...@yahoo.com> wrote: > So many of you make investment decisions with your precious life savings > based on bogus numbers put out by various countries and institutions? The > latest investors to be burned were Facebook investors. Do people really > believe the numbers put out by the US Fed Reserve, the Chinese government, > Wall Street, the USA government, European governments, the Indian > government, global banks, etc.? You really trust the garbage coming out of > the international financial system and its many institutions in this day > and age? > > I can only hope you did not trust Enron's numbers in 1999 and Lehman > Brothers and AIG numbers in 2007 or the mining companies' numbers published > in Africa. Anyone with an EXCEL spreadsheet can creatively "photoshop their > numbers" (yes, you just read this phrase here first). > > Ocean-front property in Arizona and the London bridge are BOTH for sale. > > Wow! > > George >