Posted in Economy, Banks, Irish Economy on Jan 7th, 2010 4 Comments »
The video below is of a twenty-three minute talk by Nomi Prins, where she reiterates the structural flaws which led to the current international banking crisis, as well as outlining possible future directions.
Prins is a fellow at DEMOS, which is,
a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization founded in 2000. Headquartered in New […]
Posted in Idle Thoughts, Bastards, Banks on Nov 6th, 2009 2 Comments »
Here’s Brian Lenihan discussing a point made by Michael D. Higgins about ‘political economy’ verses ‘economics’ during the NAMA bill debate last week
The orthodox economists have been much preoccupied with elegant elaborations of minor problems, which distract the attention of their pupils from the uncongenial realities of the modern world, and the development of abstract […]
Posted in Bastards, Banks on Sep 21st, 2009 1 Comment »
While clearing out the papers at home over the weekend I found myself looking at the Irish Times’ letters page from the previous Saturday and noticed a couple of familiar enough names under the topic heading Controversy over nama that I hadn’t noticed before. One was by Graham Stull, who comments regularly on Irish Economy, […]
Posted in capitalism, Banks on Sep 16th, 2009 2 Comments »
From the Postscript to the Second Edition of The Long Twentieth Century (March 21, 2009) by Giovanni Arrighi
“According to Braudel, ‘financial expansions,’ are symptoms of maturity of a particular phase of capitalist development. In discussing the withdrawal of the Dutch from commerce around 1740 to become ‘the bankers of Europe’, Braudel suggests that this […]
Posted in Twatter, NAMA, Banks on Aug 28th, 2009 No Comments »
I didn’t get back to my post on all things zombie related. But it seems that there are others who are working the theme for me.
Here’s a series of characteristically dramatic tweets from David McWilliams on NAMA and the banking crisis, which he put out this morning.
Posted in Bastards, Banks, Irish Economy, Irish housing on Aug 24th, 2009 3 Comments »
Or is this decision from Judge John Cooke of the High Court absurd?
Outlining the reasons for his ruling today, Judge John Cooke said the court found there are good grounds to give this second petition a hearing.
The court is satisfied that the material now proffered answers the deficiencies identified by the Supreme Court, Judge […]
Posted in Bastards, Banks, satire on Aug 19th, 2009 7 Comments »
Dan Hannan is the Tory MEP who talked about the NHS recently on Glen Beck’s show:
This is what Charlie Brooker said about him last night on his brilliant Channel 4 program You Have Been Watching (remember the Taliban Vs The IRA?)
Posted in NATO, Current Affairs, Banks, Irish Economy on May 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
The Sound is a monthly current affairs programme, made by members of DCTV, Dublin’s public access station. Below is the first edition of The Sound, along with its contents. The programme is 73 minutes long, and is broadcast on DCTV (NTL Channel 802) on Mondays @ 12.30pm and Tuesdays @ 7pm. It is also available […]
Posted in capitalism, fuckwits, Irish Middle Class, Banks on May 1st, 2009 No Comments »
Hilarious little clip from RTE’s Questions and Answers, 27 April 2009, when the former CEO of the Royal Bank of Scotland (Ireland), Mark Duffy, was asked his opinion on the government’s wasteful electronic voting debacle.
Enjoy.
Posted in Bastards, Banks, satire on Apr 27th, 2009 No Comments »
In Iceland they put pictures of their bankers in urinals so the male patrons of trendy bars can express their disgust at the greed of those who got them into the current mess.
…which at least is economical in that it provides two kinds of relief for hard pressed Icelanders.
But here in Ireland […]