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The Lesson from Ireland

So. Remember the Global Financial Crisis? All those get rich quick bankers whose idea of a good time was to keep bundling dubious mortgages up with other debts and selling them to each other in the hope that no one would be left holding a bag full of dog shit so that everyone could keep [...]

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RBA’s $6 billion gift to Swan

That’s it! I hereby call on the government to immediately privatise the Reserve Bank. The Reserve Bank is nothing more than a grubby little profit-making enterprise which MUST be flogged off so the private sector can enjoy the profits that come from such a risky activity, the business of buying money.

The Reserve Bank’s profit of [...]

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Compared with ’29 | vox

Some cheery economic data…The world economy is tracking or doing worse than during the Great Depression (September 2009 update) | vox – Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists.

Don’t you just love capitalism? And Glenn Dyer over @ Crikey describes the US situation as a social powderkeg:

Yes, Friday night’s employment figures were better than [...]

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