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European debt: a game of hot potato
Funny blog post here from outside of Europe, looking in!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/05/20/2905304.htm
Carers: a curtailed and lonely life
One of the loneliest jobs a person can do is not working on an oil rig or spending months at an Antarctic research station; it’s being a carer. Margaret E Ward looks at the emotional and physical toll and, in light of Government inaction, asks what we can do to help
Lehman Brothers: has the sector learned anything?
September 15th marks one year since Lehman Brothers – an investment bank that I worked for in the 1990s – was allowed to crash and burn. What, if anything, has the financial sector learned since then?
Well, if President Obama’s opinions are anything to go by it’s not much. Today he told an audience in downtown New [...]
The cost of “Keeping up with the Fitzpatricks”
Ireland needs a drastic shift in cultural attitudes – away from entitlement and towards personal responsibility. The arrogant aristocracy has made taxpayers as cheap as chips.
Toxic tips from D’Oh School of Economics
BREAKING NEWS: Homer Simpson has been operating the controls of the international financial system for the last several years. Mr Simpson, normally the animated nuclear safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Plant, is known to spend much of his time eating doughnuts, spilling coffee on the control panels and falling asleep.
Financial watchdogs from America to [...]
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