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September 12[edit]

if the stock company Raiffeisen Austria have problems or financial troubles,[edit]

can they get money from the German DZ-Bank? I know that if a Raiffeisen in Germany has problem, they are getting "help" straight from the DZ-Bank-Tower in frankfurt Main, because this Bank is the headquater of all raiffeisen in Germany but I don´t know how it is handled in Austria, slowenia and Italy, where also Raiffeisen Bank exist. Can someone tell me the information? --ZinssätzigeTargobank (talk) 00:59, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Raiffeisen Zentralbank is our article about the bank, but it doesn't go into any details about the internal accounting procedures of the group - such information is likely to be commercially sensitive. Tevildo (talk) 09:14, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Money cravings[edit]

At what ‘age’ does a male/female human being starts craving for 'money'? -- Space Ghost (talk) 19:27, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Female human beings never do, Russell.mo. But for males it is usually around the age of $; although this may vary. In much of Europe it now happens when a boy turns €, whilst in Britain it is still normally a bit later, around the age of ₤. μηδείς (talk) 19:58, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

All humans do. According to calculation preadolescent is the age, it was earlier for me, so I'm confused... -- Space Ghost (talk) 21:10, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Think Medeisis right. Little girls only want ponies, then cloths (lots of them) , shoes (lots of them), desinger hand-bags, diamonds (as many and a big as possible) and all the things that only money can buy – err.. but who provides all that money..?

So when is the age of $, €, ₤? -- Space Ghost (talk) 21:16, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Medeis was teasing, of course. Some people would claim that "craving for money" is a character defect, but, if you mean the age at which children learn the value of money, then it is sometime between four and ten. Very young children like bright things, so they will often prefer a bright penny to a dull dollar or pound. By ten years of age, nearly all children know the value of money and what it will buy, though large amounts outside their experience will confuse them. Most children do not develop a serious avarice problem, and will give money away if they see that someone else needs it more than they do. Many retain this approach into adulthood. Dbfirs 21:39, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The world is full of cynics, and Oscar Wilde caused his character Lord Darlington in Lady Windermere's Fan to say "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing". -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 21:44, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WP:OR warning... My nephew who is 9 is beginning to understand the idea of what money can buy. While his brother who is 7 doesn't have much of a clue of how much things are and such. Recently, the 9 year old was talking to my wife about how he had a 5 dollar bill. Some hours later, he threw out a can that my wife was going to redeem for 5¢. She decided to make a lesson out of it and asked for his $5. She then gave him back $4.95. He didn't care for that since A) he knew the $5 was more and B) he now had just a bunch of ones and some change instead of the higher value $5. And yes, he has a harder time with amounts that he's not familiar with. He has the impression that the $17 that we spent on pizza when he visited was not quite a lot of money but at least somewhat more than he'd ever had. Dismas|^(talk) 22:38, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A few adecdata, then. When I was six, the ice-cream truck came by and I asked for a popsicle, so my dad handed me a dollar and told me to buy one. I burst out crying, since I had no idea how money worked; everything until then had been bought for me. (This fits with the ponies, clothes and shoes, etc., theory above.) Once I started junior high, money became the means to the end of buying books and hanging out at the Friendly's after-hours at the mall. I paid my way to Europe with savings from my high school job, and paid my way through college. It wasn't until I got a few jobs with tips/commission that the $ itself became the object sought out abstractly, with no immediate purchase in mind.

At the age of eight, my nephew was given the choice of either normal presents for his ninth birthday and first communion, which were a month apart, or to get the $400.00 Lego Death Star he had been pining for since Christmas, but on the condition of receiving no other presents from anyone until the following Christmas. He wisely chose the Death Star, which took almost a year to assemble. Since then, both he and his younger brother have been plying their elders with requests in the form of, "Can I have the Imperial Star Destroyer? It's only $100.00." And they know exactly how much the Pokemon cards or earphones they want cost ahead of time, and try to convince us of how reasonable their price is. μηδείς (talk) 23:57, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Father: Son, don't you know the value of a dollar?

Young son: Sure, Pop, that's why I asked for twenty!

←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:25, 13 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

μηδείς, Dbfirs, Jack of Oz, Dismas, Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots:

Hello! sorry for the delay, I've been away from my PC. Festival (Eid) is coming soon, so I had to get ready...

I'm going with DBfirs's statement, okay! It is what I was hoping for in a way...

Thanks friends! Take care...

Space Ghost (talk) 23:17, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think any of us were disagreeing. Happy Eid. μηδείς (talk) 02:12, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

-- Space Ghost (talk) 06:49, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]