Does the financial crisis kind of influence your life or your friends' lives?

Financial makes the big event in our life. It influences all the line of living caused we lived in the world of business. This is according to my own opinion as I see. Money affects our life now, from the lowering down economic level of ones nation to the small family business as well as to the poor simple citizens. How can we take to buy the basic needs if our income was so small as the price of goods are high. There must be the imbalance scale of descent living. Let us increase our effort to work to meet the high cost of today but that was for only a moment and the next day when we're wake up, again price also increased as double. In this situation even our friends are affected.

there is no way financial crisis in the US doesn't affect canada the US has over 300 millions population, they are our biggest trading partner especially being located right next to them and being part of nafta over 50% of canadian companies are owned by americans or at least 49% of the shares these companies are owned by americans the effect of US crisis will surely be felt here although it won't be as severe as it is there but like it or not canadians have to learn to live frugal if we haven't done so if we want to survive this, that is the only way to do it

Yes. The finanical crisis, has had a major influence on my family's life. We have to really watch what we spend these days to make sure the bills are paid in full.

Well, it more or less reorders what I reach for, in life. It's changed my career choice, it's refined my plans for my future as far as residency goes, it's changed where I expected to be today. It also keeps a hold on barely surviving for my family. Were the economy better, we could finally breathe again, as far as finances goes due to a bout of good luck being able to trade our old burnt out property for this new house in the country. No money involved, no mortgages, flat out trade so that we no longer have to rent in the city (which helps A TON). We can't breathe yet, because costs are still more or less insane (it fluctuates from week to week, month to month). Bills are more orless OK, but it's hard t say if that will remain. So...it's tough for us, like it's tough for...well, seems like most eople these days. I'm a teenager, so a good amount of my friends who're also kids...are fine at the moment, but a few of them are worried. I don't know if one of my friends will be able to finish college, and I don't know if another of my friend's will be able to afford to get married in a year. (The first friend I mentioned, lives in the U.K.) I don't know if I'll be able to afford college, either. So...you do what you gotta, these days. It's strange to say, that I'm more hopeful than I've been in my whole life, right? It's just that I plan to try to make money growing food and making things with my hands. And I've faith in that, more than anything else. If I can succeed at this, then I expect everything will be fine...sooner or later. ...I kinda saw the bad economy, coming...though. First it was foreclosures, the dollar, then was the gas prices, then the food costs, then the energy costs...and over all these months, I just saw it build nation-wide, then I saw the ripples world-wide and began to think about what sort of side-effects all this was bound to have especially if it continues (which it did and is doing) and what all that might mean. It's insane the amount of time I spent crunching all that information into my brain. Usually when I should've been sleeping. And I really wanted my eyes and ears to be lying to me, too. But we're at where we're at, and all we can do is move forward, really.

Hi hiddenwing! I believe that the finacial crisis is affecting everyone everywhere now! Yes it is true that it is having a really big and bad affect on the people here in the United States but it is also having a chain reaction throughout the world! I guess that is because the USA has alot of influence finacially all over the globe. And if we are not doing well it will cause a domino affect. So I guess that is why everyone everywhere will now be feeling some sort of pince too! But, I don't think that it will be nearly as bad as it is here in the USA! We here are in a terrible mess! We are in a recession and if things don't get better soon I don't know what will happen. Everything has gone up in price except salaries and so many people have lost their homes and jobs and those things are not being replaced. That has got to change soon!

No, it hasn't affected my life until yet. Atleast not , that I have noticed it. I hope it also won't affect my life .

What I thought was weird was that after Obama was 'crowned' the President elect, stocks took a tumble. I would have thought the certainty of knowing who was going to be in charge for four more years would have helped. Off topic, sorry. A relative of mine is having their house foreclosed on. They took it hard because they always had excellent credit and took pride in always being able to pay their bills.

Food is more expensive, like rice was £1.34 or three for £3.50 then the price went to £1.70. I am often shocked to see the rising prices when I go to my local supermarket. I am really keen on traveling and the airfares have gone up considerably due to the high cost of fuel. Again I am shocked when I see the air fare including tax and fuel surcharges. Sadly in my local high street some shops have closed and their businesses have folded or got smaller. Like one travel agency closed two shops and are just keeping one shop open. The financial crisis is touching the life of every person I think across the world.