mono-stereo Combine that with a political system where the only realistic alternative is another party of crooks who recently tried to pull a fast one on the electorate by propping up a president who spent most of his second term shitting himself, due to a severe cognitive impairment.

This.

2 cheeks of the same arse

    5 days later

    I admire Canada taking on the Don, not sure their tiny economy can take on the US alone though

    We’ll give him a run. He seems like backing down at any sign of resistance is part of his “plan” so that may help. We need to just move away from US trade reliance and start building more infrastructure.

    China and Iran telling him to stick it up his hoop too.

    Interesting times ahead.

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      UK has also took eye of the ball here, we have nothing innovative or of huge growth that we can call our own. US dominated tech and AI growth we got left behind. We realie on US a lot as does every country, without them say hello to the great depression. They have been a big giver with their inward investment here and Ireland.

      They never got much back and have trillions in debt to try to get down even under another regime something would have to give.

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          VR46 Google & Apple?

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              Yeah how incredibly altruistic of them lol. Jesus.

              “work sets you free” Jeff Bezoz on opening his latest distribution centre, M18 Junction 2.

              VR46 we have nothing innovative or of huge growth that we can call our own.

              Two words DF.

              POWER Prog.

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                  Dan They have endless high growth innovative companies it’s mind blowing. Here we have insurance companies, banks and some energy, try finding anything with high growth on the ftse it very hard, slow steady best you can find. As for Canada their largest capitalisation is a bank on the s&p, Shopify is quiet innovative but no blue chip.

                  Everywhere became to reliant on the US so they have the leverage over us all really. Esp in defence.

                      VR46 it’s on a much smaller scale, but the UK is home to a number of well regarded AI companies with a competitive edge.

                        Smallman1 Yeah they created House and we took it to another level lol.

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                              mono-stereo I’ve been in greggs it’s slow with a tiny dividend. They open far to many stores and have so much staff and overheads. It’s a good hedge to a recession though.

                              It’s down 3% over past 5 years. Been flat as a pancake. Look at something like Palantir.

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                                    alistair decent but earnings growth of 4b in 4 years profit margin of 8%, has nothing on s&p.

                                      Rolls Royce enjoyed a good time of it past few years but income and balance sheet isn’t even great.

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