Posted in Bankrupt ireland, Bastards, Banks on Jan 17th, 2012 2 Comments »
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This quote is taken from the above interview at around 2:40
Interviewer: “Would you get in and invest in a bank and maybe start one?
DOB: I was on the board of a bank maybe five years ago - it’s too slow moving a business for me - I like fast moving businesses.
Interviewer: […]
Posted in Bankrupt ireland, Bastards, Banks on Oct 13th, 2011 10 Comments »
‘progressive’ is a word that I hate to see used these days. It’s meaningless. On the face of it I understand it to mean someone who is generally pointing in a positive direction without trying to get into how the ‘progressive’ individual stands on knotty issues. So we don’t know what ideology they espouse or […]
Posted in Bankrupt ireland, Banks, Ireland on Aug 18th, 2011 2 Comments »
I’m Just going through all that NAMA has done to the Irish economy, the fundamental damage to possibilities of growth in the Irish economy, for an article I’m writing for Look Left, and all I can think of is the letter written by the first guy sent to to deal with Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.
Posted in Bankrupt ireland, Death of a Tiger on Jul 14th, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in Bankrupt ireland, Comedy, Irish Middle Class on May 31st, 2011 2 Comments »
And then I remembered Carlo Cipolla’s brilliant essay on The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (Allegro ma non troppo pub. Critica 1992) which identified the third (and golden) basic law, which states: A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain […]
Posted in Bankrupt ireland, Bastards, Banks on May 20th, 2011 1 Comment »
This is a post I wrote last Friday, but didn’t finish. I had meant to get back to it, but there seemed to be so much that needed to be covered and it was about a topic, despite queeny bitching about the place, that was very much in the news, so events dear boy, blah […]
Posted in Bankrupt ireland, Banks, Government on May 20th, 2011 1 Comment »
When I first saw this image I found myself overcome with anger. The blog post in which it appeared made an argument which went beyond the rather dry academic discourse that usually accompanies economic analysis and the associated policy suggestions. Of course, the opacity of the language that economic arguments are couched in is designed […]
Posted in Bankrupt ireland, EU, Banks, Ireland on May 19th, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in Bankrupt ireland, satire, Ireland on May 16th, 2011 8 Comments »
The Central Bank of Ireland has gained permission to issue a one euro coin with the Queen’s head on it as part of the celebrations surrounding the official visit which begins tomorrow.
The European Central Bank gave the go-ahead last week, adding that such a move would have a positive effect on Ireland’s bond market ratings.
‘We […]
Posted in Bankrupt ireland, Banks, Labour, Fine Gael on May 11th, 2011 No Comments »
Let me be absolutely clear on this issue: our 12.5% rate of corporation tax is here to stay.” (Michael Noonan, Minister for Finance, 10 May 2011)
