Posted in Bastards, Banks on Dec 23rd, 2008 3 Comments »
There was much talk recently about the reaction in the international business community to the shenanigan’s of FitzPatrick and his 87 million euro hidden loans, about which the Irish Financial Regulator knew everything while negotiating the Irish government’s bank guarantee scheme. The Lex column in the Financial Times, for example, called it ‘cosy capitalism’. While […]
Posted in Budget 2009, Economy, Bastards, Banks on Oct 14th, 2008 15 Comments »
The entire Eurozone seems to be following Gordon Brown’s lead and working to recapitalize the banks by having the government take an equity stake in firms that need assistance. This is how Sweden successfully resolved its banking crisis in the 1990s and it appears to be the right thing to do.
So said Matthew Yglesias yesterday. […]
Posted in BlahBlahBlah, Bastards, Banks on Sep 23rd, 2008 2 Comments »
William Greider, writing in The Nation, thinks that if Paulson plan for the US Government to buy all of Wall Street’s bad debt is successful it has the potential to bring down one or both political parties in the States. He quotes an analyst who says the plan is “exclusively being lobbied for by precisely […]
Posted in Literature, French, Bastards on May 7th, 2008 7 Comments »
Take a look at the wee family spat over here on the Guardian’s site, classic ‘Little House on the Prairie’ stuff I think you’ll all agree : Houllebecq’s Darlin’ Mother
:->
Posted in Fianna Fáil, Excuses, Bastards, Bertiegate, Bertie, Ahern, Politics on Mar 26th, 2008 No Comments »
One week after Grainne Carruth´s devastating testimony to the Mahon Tribunal - testimony which has left the Taoiseach’s defense of his financial “irregularities” in tatters - not one senior cabinet minister has come out publicly to support him.
This is what Minister for Education, Mary Hanafin, had to say on the matter yesterday:
I’m only dealing […]
Posted in Bastards, Banks, Property, Media, Ireland on Mar 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Here at Dublin Opinion, we don’t accept empty praise or the sort of ridiculous online fawning where one blog writer over zealously trumpets the skills of another blog writer in the hope of catching on the coat tails of their apparent popularity. Its rather distasteful, really.
But I have to publicly thank Tomaltach for the […]
Posted in Bastards, Banks, Media on Feb 22nd, 2008 4 Comments »
Okay, so this morning didn’t go so well. First of all I was a little late getting my daughter to school and although we just made it in time it meant that I had to really leg it for the Dart. When I got there I had to push slow moving commuters out of the […]
Posted in Bastards, Banks, France on Jan 28th, 2008 5 Comments »
I am to lose my job this week as the company I work for pass into liquidation. For the last couple of months, they have been slowly suffocated by the French banking sector - including Société Générale. To be fair to the latter, they were the bank that backed them the longest and the company […]
Posted in Bastards, Banks, music on Aug 24th, 2007 No Comments »
A Random Walk, an Irish Financial blog has an interesting post today about our indebtedness and the small number of unoccupied homes which are holiday homes. I add it here simply because it confirms, further, Conor’s thesis.
Random Walk says:
It doesn’t matter what any of our Celtic Ostriches say about “begrudgers”, being number 1 in […]
Posted in Economy, Bastards, Banks on Aug 15th, 2007 10 Comments »
Michael Taft, in his post on the Aer Lingus debacle makes an excellent point about the use or misuse of the phrase ‘commercial decision’ in relation to plan to move Aer Lingus’ Heathrow slots from Shannon to Belfast. The use of the phrase itself is supposed to suggest that such decisions are made by intellectually […]
