After all, this was “the gravest global economic crisis in a half-century,” as then-World Bank economist Joseph Stiglitz called it before today’s global crisis showed up. So you needed the best minds, from the biggest and brightest international bodies, to jet in…survey the trouble…prescribe a solution (while signing a check)…and then jet out again, back to whichever hushed corridors they had just emptied.
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Troy, 11 century BC. Upon seeing the horse Laocoön exclaimed: "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts".
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"Six out of nine governments since 1980 have been coalitions, several including COMMUNISTS". Priceless ... and some no doubt ...
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Also noted that item, John. Did you see the Property Insert (p.2) in the Sunday Times, yesterday? Showed that ...
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Debt for equity? Sounds like a ponzi scheme. Gold just keeps on looking better, it being the 'ultimate extinguisher of ...
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wtf, my view is that the answer is yes as it applies in the real economy, and yet a sharp ...
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Lachlan: "If the status quo remains I'm still optimistic."
It looks like the status is more than quoing, Lachlan:
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But isn't that just 'propping up the banks', rather than filling demand? i.e. the money isn't going to those ...
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I think this analysis is naive.
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