Tag Archives: Bankers

The Brussels Bunglers have no Plan B

By scrubber | Published: June 29, 2011
As the tragedy of Greek debt continues, the EU leaders, as can be seen in the following video, openly admit that there is no Plan B. Their only option, the only one they have considered and will consider, is another bail-out. This despite the fact that the previous one didn’t work (and nor will this [...]
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Fire Sale!

By scrubber | Published: April 4, 2011
Ok, quiz time… What is the missing word, and when was the following written? “The ****** government in Britain is imposing budget cuts in the Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) that will result in hundreds of job losses and compromise public safety. The Audit Commission, the unelected body used by the central government to impose market-based discipline [...]
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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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The Unofficial Pan-European Bank Mutiny Day

By scrubber | Published: December 7, 2010
As I blogged on 19 November, today is The Unofficial Pan-European Bank Mutiny Day. Go do your bit! Wikio Wikio
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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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William Hague performs well in PMQs

By scrubber | Published: January 27, 2010
William Hague destroyed Harridan Harperson today in PMQs (link to BBC iPlayer) where she was deputising for the Prime Mentalist. Vince Cable did a fair job as well. Watching HH was interesting, in a watching-paint-dry kind of way. She was poorly-prepared, wooden, perfunctory and lightweight. I’ve long been frustrated watching the Prime Mentalist blatantly not answering [...]
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David McWilliams on the bankers’ Super Tax

By scrubber | Published: December 22, 2009
I’d never heard of David McWilliams until a tip-off from a friend in Ireland, but he seems to make a lot of sense, and seems to know a lot about the world of banking in Ireland, London and Europe. He writes in the Irish Independent and the Sunday Business Post and worked at UBS – [...]
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