From reading what most people have written here
no one is being affected by the 'credit crunch'.

So is it fair to say that it doesn't really exist and has just been made up by the media?
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 23 Jan 2009, 8:33, 4 replies)

Everyone is affected.
Your government just stole a big lump of your money and gave it to the banks.

In Ireland, the government have increased a tax levy of 1-3% depending on income.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 9:21, closed)

No,
no, no, no, no!
(bogsludger, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 10:19, closed)

well
money doesn't really exist -- it's just a virtual artifact derived from our cultural peculiarities.

Therefore a current (cultural) prediliction for not lending amounts of this virtual object has an even lesser connection to reality. The credit crunch is doubly virtual, and doubly non-existant.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 10:58, closed)

Yes.
It's all made up by the powers that be who like to control the population by means of fear. There is plenty of evidence linking the appearance of this control mechanism to the rise of thatcherism in the UK (aided by the noted looney John Nash) with the declaration "there is no such thing as society"....

..It's just like Global Warming, which also doesn't exist. And Peak Oil, another well known myth....

but... do you want to take the risk?
(EffinDoubt is breaking glass on, Wed 28 Jan 2009, 16:08, closed)