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You don't even need 2g for a hip replacement. I know of a hip replacement that is still going strong for the person involved despite it having been done before mobile phones were invented. Surgeons were able to do decent hip replacements even when they were using a system based around pen-and-paper. In fact technology can allow bad ideas to spread too fast - have you considered this? It's not like technology only has pros - there are many cons as well. Often people coming up with good ideas are more reserved and introverted. Hence technology allows social media influences (who haven't done enough scientific research) to spread ideas too quickly without enough checks and balances by other people who truly understand the issue under consideration. For example when you had a pen-and-paper system if a surgeon came up with a better way to do an operation they would have to collect the evidence and send it to other surgeons to make sure they agreed it improved the prognosis in a random sample. Nowadays someone online with a million followers can spend half an hour reading around an issue (which is nowhere near enough to form an expert opinion) and then can influence/persuade a million followers to favour the 'scientifically incorrect' side of the argument.

Hence there are huge issues with technology and not all of them good by a long means.

Hi Jack,

Ultimately people who do bad things only make their world worse to live in. Hope you understand this.

Best of luck with your investments.

PS - I believe in mutual cooperation and because we are all different then production needs to be shared between people because it is so much more efficient that way. Money did seem like the answer a long time ago as barter involved more effort - however the market prices became too manipulated by greedy speculators - hence I wouldn't be surprised if people go back to a barter system in future - maybe also employing blockchain and bitcoin to keep track of who is honest and who needs to be excluded from the 'cooeprative' system.

But without Brexit how do you stop the continued devaluation of the Pound - this is what the Bank of England's policymakers will be tearing their hair out over.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/no-deal-brexit-major-economic-093617653.html

But without Brexit how do you stop the continued devaluation of the Pound - this is what the Bank of England's policymakers will be tearing their hair out over.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/no-deal-brexit-major-economic-093617653.html

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/ocado-invest-indoor-farming-step-063000059.html

Ocado Group Plc is investing in a pair of vertical-farming ventures as the U.K. maker of online retail technologies branches out following its mammoth deal with Marks & Spencer Group Plc.
The company said Monday it bought a 58% stake in Jones Foods Co., Europe’s largest operating vertical farm, based in Scunthorpe, England. Ocado will use its know-how in automation and distribution to make the herb grower more efficient and potentially integrate it with Ocado Zoom to deliver fresh products to customers within an hour.

I actually feel sorry for the directors - they probably think they have to achieve a prestige car, large house, private education, and a salary in the millions, unless they have failed in life.

Can you imagine how awful it must be to live a life thinking unless I achieve all of the above I am a failure?

I'd take the job - the way to get the share price up is easy - just go on national TV and explain why the CMA is wrong and basically say we are selling to Walmart for £3.39 per share and that is that - in a free-market economy you can't stop us if Walmart wants to pay £3.39 per share to have a larger and more efficient business to better serve the interests of UK consumers.

I actually feel sorry for the directors - they probably think they have to achieve a prestige car, large house, private education, and a salary in the millions, unless they have failed in life.

Can you imagine how awful it must be to live a life thinking unless I achieve all of the above I am a failure?

Why don't investors want to invest in normal things like farming, houses, leisure, restaurants, and entertainment such as getting live music back into the pubs in most villages at weekend.

My own village has died - one "corner shop" and two pubs.

5,000 people just want to sit at home every evening and do nothing. If this was Vietnam there would be 50 street-food stalls, there would be live music in the pubs, and the citizens would not just want to sit at home watching the same rubbish on TV and eating unhealthy food such as mountains of milk chocolate and pizza made with only 50% real cheese.

Why aren't there any shops selling clothes, books or music? Why isn't there even a post office? Why isn't there a single restaurant in a village of 5,000 citizens? It's absurd.

What an awful place the UK has become.

I'll tell you why this has happened in my opinion. It's because it's impossible to borrow any money from UK banks for setting up a restaurant in a largish village - hence you could have a very talented chef just living on benefits in the UK these days - there is literally no way for them to borrow the capital to get started with setting up a great restaurant (unless they want to go and try and compete with the existing ones in a major city - which to me makes no sense as major cities are served well already - but surely in a village of 5,000 people there would be the demand for one decent restaurant, if not three or four?)

Why does no one want to eat out in the UK apart from in towns/cities? What do people existing in villages do? There are 5,000 people living in my village and it seems that most evenings they are just watching TV. It's crazy in my opinion. They don't seem to understand a bargain. They think £20 for two course is expensive when actually for quality French-style food it is a very good deal.

It's a bad thing.

Why don't investors want to invest in normal things like farming, houses, leisure, restaurants, and entertainment such as getting live music back into the pubs in most villages at weekend.

My own village has died - one "corner shop" and two pubs, 5,000 people just want to sit at home every evening and do nothing. If this was Vietnam there would be 50 street-food stalls, there would be live music in the pubs, and the citizens would not just want to sit at home watching the same rubbish on TV and eating unhealthy food such as mountains of milk chocolate and pizza made with only 50% real cheese.

What an awful place the UK has become.

In a strategy update, the European energy giant announced plans to return at least $125 billion to its shareholders via dividends and share repurchase in the 2021-2025 time frame, as long as Brent crude do not fall below $60 per barrel. The projection compares favorably with the distribution of $90 billion between 2016 and 2020. The potential payout will be more than double the total distribution within 2011-2015.

Notably, even amid gloomy market conditions, Shell reported the biggest profit among peers in 2018.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/shell-ramp-buybacks-dividends-growing-125812896.html

Have you considered the possibility that people are not using as much oil as they need to for a decent lifestyle because the government/the banking system has wrecked the economy and ruined millions of people's lives by trying to transition away from oil too fast (when actually there is no need to be in quite such a rush).

Look at what has happened to most investment's over the past decade - either static or massively decreased in value. Not many IPOs. Council tax rises, national insurance up from 6.5% to 12%. But even worse most of the investment has been made into tech companies and there has been very little investment into infrastructure or housebuilding.

Just where is the oil demand going to come from if countries won't invest in infrastructure, upgrading manufacturing facilities, and housebuilding?

Have you considered the possibility that people are not using as much oil as they need to for a decent lifestyle because the government and the banking system has wrecked the economy and millions of people's lives by trying to transition away from oil too fast when actually there is no need to be in quite such a rush.

Extra light is the best crude - you can put it straight in the fuel tank of a tractor and it will work okay (may shorten engine life by about 25% but that may not be an issue for many farmers).

Extra-light crude is closer to refined petrol/diesel in its hydrocarbon chain length.

Many refineries have been designed to process heavier crudes because this seemed to be the trend before shale. However there is nothing wrong with extra-light crude - it actually can be processed by the simplest type of refineries. Hence if a few new refineries need to be built to process this extra-light crude they will be cheap to build and highly efficient to run.

Hi all,

What use are Woodford's biotech investments to 99% of UK citizens?

In my opinion most UK citizens can see the benefits of owning a house, cheap energy, cars, food (i.e. investing in UK farming and all types of crops), decent education and healthcare, and having enough free time to pursue their hobbies and interests.

Social things can be sorted out face-to-face. I don't think it's going to wash any longer that just because your central banker friends bailed you out that you can think you're the big man because you have the biggest wallet (anyone could have done that if they were told beforehand by 'those in the know' that the FED were going to make unprecedented interventions in markets that defied the economic rules/conventions going back to the 1920s).

If the government wants to be popular surely it must focus on getting the investment community to support UK farming, housebuilding, UK-based production/manufacturing, and UK-based leisure activity companies.

Best of luck to everyone here. However, my question to people here would be is - just what use are Woodford's biotech investments to most UK citizens?

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Don't you worry about your lack of medical credentials - I am also aware that excessive drink and/or substance abuse can be harmful. People don't need anything other than common sense to be aware of this fact of life.

I told you months ago, pay me $300,000 and I will work for everyone invested here in the equity for six months.

Instead you choose to back the current BOD who have presided over a declining share price for the past seven years.

$300,000 is peanuts for six months of my time considering I will be targetting selling this company for £2.75 per share within that timeframe.

I'm quite happy to work with the current management - only I intend to see that they stop taking equity holders for fools and that we work together from now on to genuinely deliver the returns that equity holders deserve here - given the amount of oil in the ground equity holders deserve many times the current share price as an acceptable return on their invested capital.

I agree, if you think $9million is peanuts (which I agree it is), then why haven't APEC paid it on time? If they are struggling to find even peanuts then what hope have we of them producing a decent-sized amount of dollars to invest in the Barryoe project?

I told you months ago, pay me $300,000 and I will work for everyone invested here in the equity
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for six months.

Instead you choose to back the current management who have presided over a declining share price for the past seven years.

$300,000 is peanuts for six months of my time considering I will be targetting selling this company for £2.75 per share within that timeframe.

I'm quite happy to work with the current management - only I intend to see that they stop taking equity holders for fools and that we work together from now on to genuinely deliver the returns that equity holders deserve here - given the amount of oil in the ground equity holders deserve many times the current share price for their invested capital.