Just remembered that £35.4m lottery thread...

What's the first thing you'd do if you just had £35.4m cleared into

You'd care a bit more these days, eh? What would be the most secure place
for all that, I wonder? Gold? Land? Houses in China?

 

Gold. But where to keep it!

 

Allied Irish Bank.

 

Not gold, not yet.
Last year it was <half its current price.
No reason to think it won't go there again.

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But not the Anglo-Irish Bank. The A-IB is apparently dodgy as **** and
really should have been left out of the Irish Govt bail-out scheme, as
it's utterly hopelessly riddled with bad developer debt - from what I've
been reading.
So, AIB ok, A-IB not ok.
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How much more suspenseful can you get?"
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Indeed.

I noticed that they also included Ulster Bank in the scheme, which
once would have been controversial (not least because it's owned by
RBS).

 

Heh. Iwt back 15 or 20 years ago there would have been many eyebrows
raised and probably some protests.
Yesterday I heard of a trio of Scandinavian banks wanted to open here so
they could come under the guarantee umbrella [1] - bit of a fecking
cheek, I thought. It should have been made clear the protection only
extended to existing customers and financial institutions.

[1] And perhaps, though I don't know for sure, gaining coverage for
their customers outside Ireland.
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Dave
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"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
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