Category Archives: Economy

The fourth Reich?

By scrubber | Published: November 16, 2011
The Daily Mail, in classic “Hun-baiting” fashion has had a pop at the Germans today. Entitled “Europe speaks German now!“, it centres on comments made by one Volker Kauder who is one of Angela Merkel’s closest allies. He is, in fact, the parliamentary leader of Merkel’s CDU party and he made the comments in a [...]
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Socialism encapsulated

By scrubber | Published: May 26, 2011
Here is a picture (thanks to Old Holborn for posting it) which shows clearly why Socialism doesn’t, and will never, work. As Margaret Thatcher once said: “The trouble with Socialists is that eventually they run out of other people’s money”. Click the picture to enlarge it, which is well worth doing, but try not to be [...]
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Bankruptcy, the Euro, and us

By scrubber | Published: March 26, 2011
Let me start with a couple of quotations from an article in the Daily Telegraph of March 24th, 2011: “Portugal has defaulted on its national debt five times since 1800, Greece five times, Spain no less than seven times (and 13 times in all since 1500). By contrast, Anglo-Saxon countries rarely, if ever, default. In this country, [...]
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On mourning the Celtic Tiger…

By scrubber | Published: February 17, 2011
Well, those of a sensitive nature may not want to watch this expletive-filled rant, but I, for one, think it’s funny and spot-on. Ok, so it’s contrived, but nearly 2 million YouTube viewers can’t be wrong. Can they? The man’s name is Denis Ryan, a native of Newport, Co Tipperary and a very well-known entertainer and [...]
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Richard Littlejohn’s Economics ABC

By scrubber | Published: January 11, 2011
Richard Littlejohn is always good for a laugh, and has a knack of being able to offend or upset people from all sectors of the political spectrum; it’s what he does. Today’s entry in the Daily Mail is a classic, and should be compulsory reading for all of us, especially Alan Johnson. I’ve noticed a concerted [...]
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À bas les Banques!

By scrubber | Published: November 19, 2010
The French, as we all know, are not exactly backwards in coming forwards on the civil disruption front. They do love a good old shindig, whatever the excuse, and make our home-grown student protesters look like a bunch of pussies. So it comes as some surprise that they should come up with an idea, somewhat [...]
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The economic consequences of Mr. Brown

By scrubber | Published: June 29, 2010
My thanks to our blogging colleague Old Holborn for bringing our attention to the following youtube clip of a speech by Professor Stein Ringen, and thence, by extension, the rather longer version below it. The subject is a book by Professor Ringen called “The Economic Consequences of Mr Brown”: quite a subject… The good Professor is [...]
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Why shouldn’t Britain go the same way as Greece? (and other musings)

By DiamondGeezer | Published: May 5, 2010
Prevalent in the news today have been the riots in Greece. The country is now sufficiently unattractive to investors and ratings agencies that their bond markets have frozen, and due to this and their enormous deficit they are no longer able to service their debts. Greek workers’ unions hold enormous sway, and thanks [...]
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Suffering from election fatigue?

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 28, 2010
I think I probably am, but not in the ways you might immediately think. In this era of media- and spin-led politics, we are seemingly interminably subjected to a constant barrage of soundbites, ‘news’, glad-handing, palm-pressing, baby-kissing and any other inconsequential drivel that our political classes and their sycophants in the media care to inflict upon [...]
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The Department of Government Waste releases new information video.

By scrubber | Published: April 1, 2010
Ok, this April Fool, which isn’t in the least funny, but excellent nonetheless, deserves its own blog entry. Watch the advert. Class! Download the PDF!. Frightening… Wikio Wikio
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