Comments on: Banking Crisis: The Irish Question

By: Fully Secured Bank Funded Pigeon

Fully Secured Bank Funded Pigeon — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:11:21 +0000

Sounds like bliss! I might fly over and see how you’re getting on

By: chenier

chenier — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:43:18 +0000

Africa, FSBFP, starting with a stopover in Mombasa of unknown length, 36 hours in Cape Town and then sailing back to England via not many ports, presumably because west Africa is not yet big on the tourist development front.

Though of course, Namibia is now fashionable, Ghana looks interesting, Cape Verde weird, Tenerife is Tenerife and I’ve never been to Lisbon before.

They call it an old fashioned line voyage, and I thought it would be a good place to breathe a lot of air whuch hasn’t been breathed by several thousand Londoners before me, though yellow fever would undoubtedly be a downside. The being waited on hand and foot is a definite upside…

By: Fully Secured Bank Funded Pigeon

Fully Secured Bank Funded Pigeon — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:45:17 +0000

where are you going? Africa or the Americas?

By: chenier

chenier — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:43:43 +0000

If I had a drive, the job would be yours, FSBFP!

Make that, ‘If I had a drive and some money the job would be yours, FSBFP!!’

Alas, all I have to save the world with is plastic, so I have just acquired another credit card, which isn’t terribly difficult since I’ve banked with the same lot since I went to University. I can thus get the holiday interest free for the next year, and now all I have to do is find a swimsuit to fit my slowly shrinking self into, and threaten to murder the offspring if she takes any pictures of me before I revert to not wholly spherical.

Oh, and get a yellow fever vaccination, which I am not looking forward to…

By: Fully Secured Bank Funded Pigeon

Fully Secured Bank Funded Pigeon — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:07:44 +0000

I’ve ditched plastic for good ol cash just like the tried and tested irish tinkers. Do you want your drive done?

By: chenier

chenier — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:22:14 +0000

Good for you, FSBFP! I’m glad somebody is; I think I’ve forgotten what real money looks like. Judging from the sepulchral gloom at the health club everyone else in the City is subsisting on a diet of plastic as well…

By: Fully Secured Bank Funded Pigeon

Fully Secured Bank Funded Pigeon — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:31:03 +0000

I’ve just sold my car for £50 on ebay - i’m rich i tell ya rich!

By: Fully Secured Bank Funded Pigeon

Fully Secured Bank Funded Pigeon — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:30:08 +0000

Crisis? What crisis?

By: chenier

chenier — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:43:22 +0000

And, still on the same continent, the loonie continues to dwindle as Canadian consumer prices fell for a fourth consecutive month in January, the longest stretch since the Great Depression, even though Stephen ‘We don’t need no stinkin’ economic stimulus’ Harper’s clone bit the bullet and offered up to $5.6 billion to General Motors to prevent Barack ‘Yes We Do’ Obama invading Ontario, whilst simultaneously fixedly ignoring the fact that Canada has gone into trade deficit for the first time since 1976.

All in all, not a good week for a man who claimed that Canada was simultaneously perfectly plugged into the global markets but perfectly protected from any downturn in the global markets, so it’s just as well it’s only the clone who gets to be humiliated…

By: chenier

chenier — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:07:05 +0000

Probably not.

On the other hand he will be delighted to have read the reports on George Soros’ observation that ‘the current economic crisis has its roots in the financial deregulation of the 1980s and marks the end of a free-market model that has since dominated capitalist countries.’

Blame it on Ronnie Reagan and Maggie Thatcher…

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ay0FPxGdth_k&refer=home