Moving Forward
By Andy Shaw | January 26, 2010
Hi,
First let me start with a warning, I suggest you get a cup off coffee if you are intending to read all of this. As this is a little bit of a long answer to a lot of questions. It should be interesting in places, revealing at times and it may be boring in places too as it probably goes into too much depth. But anyway for those looking for the answers then I think they are here.
Here’s a summary as you may not want to read it all, you’ll probably need to read in full the last few sections regarding the future of this site though
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My Apology
By Andy Shaw | January 26, 2010
Originally posted 27th November 2009
Dear All,
I would like to apologise unreservedly for what has happened. I thought that I had said it before but it is obvious that I had not made myself clear enough and I now want to make myself crystal clear.
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My Response To Maria Davies
By Andy Shaw | January 26, 2010
Originally posted 20th November 2009
Hi All,
During a discussion with my business partners the other night and following the increase of attacks being made on Passive Investments and finally the number of links to a site being placed in the forums, I have decided that it was time that I actually started to answer our critics back on some individual Passive Investments remarks that have and are being dished out.
Up until now it has always been our policy to ignore such criticisms and let the aggrieved person take us to court if they felt they had a case. As such we have only ever received threats of legal action from disgruntled clients but have never yet had anyone take anything further.
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My Financial Position
By Andy Shaw | January 26, 2010
Originally posted 19th November 2009
Foreword
Hi All,
Well to those who do not know, we have had some fun today as someone has hacked the site and possibly even my email, so I am left having to post a reply on a forum that may be under the control of a hacker. I and my business partners are even considering all changing our computers, email addresses and starting over as when you have a troubled individual like this affecting your life then you have to take extreme action.
What happened was I was discussing my reply to what has gone on with my business partners and how I should handle getting out in front of the story. I emailed them a draft of my suggested site post. Somewhere along the way a person of questionable morals had intercepted this email and then made no end of changes to it. They then sent that email out to all site members and posted it on Singing Pig. Following a discussion last night with my business partners we had decided to mail it out to everyone who has ever bought one of our products and post it on the site, which we will continue to do as soon as we are ready.
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Who Is Really Pulling The Strings?
By Andy Shaw | January 26, 2010
Originally posted 2nd November 2009
A few conspiracy theories here.
I read a few years ago that Tony Blair had been promised the job of president of Europe and that when that role came up that he would simply get it. I forget exactly what he did in order to get that role, but I know one of the things was stepping down at the right time and becoming a Catholic. Now at the time of writing I don’t know if Tony has yet put his hat in the ring but I think it is obvious that he will as the other hats are from people that hardly anyone has heard of. So if you can find someone to bet against Tony, hang on to them.
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Why The Banks Don’t Need To Lend Money
By Andy Shaw | January 26, 2010
Originally posted 19th October 12009
I have been watching the banks over here in Cyprus having Russian money literally poured into them and yet I have not seen a really significant change in the banks appetite for lending. So I decided to dig a little deeper to find out why the banks do not really need to lend this money out as we all assumed that they did.
So where do they put this cash reserve? Well, thanks to the banks being able to leverage this capital 10 to 1 they have a much more appealing proposition other than risking that money even at 70% loan to values.
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So The Recession Is Over, Is It?
By Andy Shaw | January 26, 2010
Originally posted 1st October 2009
Figures are going to be out soon that will allow the statisticians and the media to announce that the recession is over and that we will start to come out of this soon. Thanks to the way they measure recessions then they will be able to say that but the truth is that it is not over. In fact we are approaching a dangerous time now with all of the problems close on our heels that have yet to rear their ugly heads.
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Timing Will Be Everything In Avoiding Absolute Disaster
By Andy Shaw | January 26, 2010
Originally posted 18th September 2009
This article is just covering something that is likely to be a problem to us in a few years’ time. It is not on the horizon now, however, if you are aware of it then you will see some talk of it in the media and it will give you a good indication of what will happen when, without the mythical need for clairvoyance.
As we all know the Bank of England are currently engaged in the policy of Quantitative Easing (Printing money). This should equate to the value of money going down, but we won’t see that for a while. Anyway, when this phase has finished and inflation looks like it might start the government/central bank will have to switch from this policy to a tighter one and if they do not time it well then this will cause a lot of problems.
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The Spanish Banks Are Liars And The Truth Will End Up Hurting You
By Andy Shaw | January 26, 2010
Originally posted 11th September 2009
Hi,
Quick update:
I’ve been off for a while now as I have been travelling to the UK and am in the process of the final few stages of some new businesses starting. So time has not been my friend for the last few weeks and probably won’t be much for the next few either. The trouble is when you want a big result you have to knuckle down and make it happen.
Anyway, moving on – There has been a huge amount of stuff coming out in the last month, most of it dis-information where the experts and the media alike have assumed one thing when in reality the truth will be very different.
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What Will The Pain Look Like When It Comes?
By Andy Shaw | January 26, 2010
Originally posted 31st July 2009
I spoke about the pain we will be having in the UK when the new government comes in, that will indeed be needed if we are to turn around the debt we now have in the UK. Then I read an article about what Ireland is having to endure already and thought you might want to see what I mean. In Ireland they have already passed two emergency budgets to stop the deficit soaring and these have not been enough. A report last week said, “Dublin must cut deeper, or risk a disastrous debt compound trap.”
So they estimate a further 17,000 state jobs must go (equal to 1.25m in the US), though unemployment is already at 12% and heading for 16% next year – and as yet I have not seen one unemployment projection that undershot!
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