Stacy Summary: h/t @Danny. Your thoughts??
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Stacy Summary: It grows more evident every day that the global economy is truly in the hands of jokers.
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Stacy Summary: Excuse my French, but WTF? H/t @Danny for this.
The decision by Eurostat means Nama will not increase the general government debt ratio and Ireland’s budget balance will not be directly affected by Nama.
And so we now learn than Nama beast has mutated into a high-risk derivative game with ghost investors, imaginary assets and illusionary payoffs. We are, for all intent and purpose, in the BaNama Republic.
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Stacy Summary: A blog entry for Ireland. So use the comments section to talk about NAMA and/or today’s vote on the Lisbon treaty. @Danny and @david and others from Ireland, would love to hear any live updates you have on what is happening on the ground there. What are the big issues for those voting against the Lisbon treaty and the same for those voting for it.
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Stacy Summary: A sad, sad day for the Irish people. Why is it, however, that sad days for the people these days is always such a good day for bankers and banking shares?
Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny said Nama was a “fatally flawed piece of legislation.”
He told the Dáil this morning it was the “economics of the madhouse, supported by the fiction of long term economic value.”
“The Government keeps telling us that Nama is not a bail-out for the bankers. In fact, the Taoiseach gets quite annoyed when we talk about bail-outs. Then perhaps he could explain why the share price of AIB is up 25 per cent this morning? And the share price of Bank of Ireland is up 16 per cent. Isn’t this a clear sign that the banks have got a great deal at the expense of the taxpayer?”
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