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An Irish view on the Global Recession
This is by far the most accurate, frank and honest appraisal of the Global recession you are ever likely to see
…gotta love the Irish!
Recession solved by my bad investments
There’s been a spate of stories in the press recently, where various industry pundits are heralding the end of the recession.
In true pundit style, the sources are covering their arses by throwing in the “but let’s not get overconfident just yet” caveats, but the gist of it all, is that things are less crap than they were not so long ago.
And I reckon that’s at least partly because of me.
Credit Crunch con-trick: Who’s really to blame?
A few days ago, I was listening to one of a seemingly endless series of radio discussion programmes about the credit crunch.
Most of these programmes have a fairly low-to-middle range annoyance factor, but this particular programme really got my blood boiling, because the interviewee had the gall to state:



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