CREDIT Crunch news of the day: Simon Jenkins lets the poor eat words…
Yes, some people are poor and some are out of work, but not everyone; not even a majority. Keynes was right. The most important thing in a recession is for those with money to keep spending it. Those without can cite Aquinas and remember that the best things in life are free.
Talk is cheap. The Times costs 80p. Anorak is free…
Posted: 14th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Media Comments (10) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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October 14th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
and can we use it at face value please? I have a ten million dollar note………..
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Artemis
I’m sorry to say that Anorka has implemented a strict mark-to-market policy; I keep telling him we should abandon these accounting conventions, but will he listen? No.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Just a thought…can we not ask Zimbabwe for money? They seem to have loads of the stuff.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
I wonder if Artemis is surviving the credit crunch or going down?
Have you been moonlighting again Arty?
http://www.artemisonline.co.uk/
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Artemis
Nothing to do with me, thank the Pantheon. Nice pun, though.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
well i’m glad you’ve got your priorities right…
October 14th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Who me? Not unless prostitute’s corpses are legal tender now…I wonder which are the high denomination ones?
[oops. Thought I was posting at Hecklerspray for a second there]
October 14th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
What mattress?
I had to sell it to buy a round of drinks at Corney and Barrow…
October 14th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
I bet you’ve got loads stuffed under the mattress
October 14th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
As it is for us much poorer contributors…
October 14th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
I no longer have any money, so I have to employ the vis aestimativa in different ways to those who have.
[Damn I walked right into that one, didn't I?]
October 14th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
and is one of the best things in my life