If ever a case where patricide would be justified…

As I see it the fat cats and the very very sleek cats won’t go short whatever occurs, or if they do it would be the loss of £30k to buy the latest designer ???? while the scrawnier moggie should need that £30k as his annual salary.

I don’t think the US or UK govts are aware that scrawny cat even exists.

I am a capitalist, and I believe those who endeavour should be rewarded - their origins in life notwithstanding. But it should be those who endeavour, not thieving gits whether educated at Eton or Wherever Comp

But no-one has any idea of what the US Treasury’s master plan is, mainly because the Treasury doesn’t know either; one of the few things which is clear is that they will have to get legislative approval in order to let the Treasury borrow the sort of money it needs for a bail out.

Bear in mind that almost the only people with the dosh to lend it are sovereign funds; if, for example, Kuwait says ‘thanks, but no thanks’ then the plan, whatever it is, never gets off the starting blocks.

I await, with some amusement, the IMF’s attempts at spinning the biggest piece of protectionism in financial history as a triumph of free markets; the French are already laughing their socks off about it, and there will be many more to come…

I just thought the political lot here and there were attempting to delay matters so that the ‘Rompers Home’ effectively would have their work cut out

They are hanging on by their fingertips; November is eons away as the financial markets measure time.

The US Treasury doesn’t have the money, and the people who do have the money may decide that enough is enough, and stop lending it to the US Treasury so that the US Treasury can bail itself out of the mess it has gotten into.

Otherwise known as Armageddon…

Which is why we have to pray that someone will indeed make it down the field and catch it, because otherwise we are all, as they say in the markets, f*cked…

Bye, Smuddy; will be thinking of you and your family. Take care!

The key doesn’t seem to fit any locks though.

About the money, I forget where you are, but did you catch my country’s bailout details yesterday? They’d have been SO much more comforting if they hadn’t been preceded by Thursday’s headlines, trumpeting how many billions in debt we already are. Where you reckon these new billions are coming from–the top-secret, magic billion machine?

And whilst you have been away you cannot have forgotten my views on the ‘mustn’t grumble front’; please feel free to grumble away!

As for moi, I am recruiting people to say Hail Mary’s in the hope of staving off Armaggeddon, but that’s just because I’m the sort of person who knows what a credit default swap is and really wishes she didn’t…

[Sadly mon oncle sold off his extensive record collection when he remarried in the 90’s. I do have an original (with the working metal zip) Sticky Fingers by The Stones, but it’s far from mint. It’s still mint listening to it when I can be arsed to get the turntable out. It’s a bizarre sight, seeing it and the pre-amp perched next to the computer when I do though, but then I’m daft enough to have a 1913-ish treadle Singer sewing machine in my bedroom so I’m a combination of anachronism and modernism - but not Bowdlerism.

What will people think?

What will the little grey aliens from the Planet Splog think?

And how are you?