Wankin’ Bankers
By Barry Ritholtz - December 12th, 2010, 10:43AM
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An Irishman abroad tells it like it is !! :-)
THIS MAN IS AN IRISH NATIONAL HERO !!
We at xfm Dublin, Ireland, WANT this man to return home and run the country :-) Even if this man was in a fucking coma, he could do a better job than Fianna Fail and their wanker banker and developer mates. It will be a cold day in Hell, when another Banker / Builder / Property Developer / Speculator or ‘Fianna Failure Lizard’ wipes the eye of the Irish People. They should stick to shovelling shit ! That is what they are used to, that’s what they are good at.
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December 12th, 2010 at 11:10 am
The guys gets his 2 mins of fame.
Funny how nobody ever screams when the market is going higher and leverage works for us.
December 12th, 2010 at 11:34 am
“Funny how nobody ever screams when the market is going higher and leverage works for us.”
You don’t say! It is so hilarious that the tickle-me factor alone should be enough to excuse and forgive the massive fraud perpetrated by the banksters and their accomplices in Parliaments and Capitols.
December 12th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Barry you got punk’d too – http://contrarian.ca/2010/12/10/allnovascotia-punkd-by-dennis-ryan/
December 12th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
Hooray for telling it like it is. The real mistake was the Irish government guaranteeing the debt of these wild bankers. They should have let the banks default on their debt and let the losses be felt by the German banks that were foolish enough to lend to the banks. Instead the Irish people will be paying for those losses for years and years to come. Don’t be surprised if a new Irish government walks on this stupid deal.
December 13th, 2010 at 12:57 am
“Funny how nobody ever screams when the market is going higher and leverage works for us.”
You have to be really clueless (or dumb) to say that on *this* blog.
December 13th, 2010 at 1:47 am
On Dec 9th, CSPAN broadcast a FANTASTIC speech by Irish opposition Finance Minister Michael Noonan. Also on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO_rSwM4ueE. It’s a reply to Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan’s budget proposal. He relentlessly heaps scorn on the government with a large shovel.
The best moment is at the 4:25 point, when Noonan asks if members of the government ever feel ashamed. He says HE felt shamed when he read the government’s obsequious letters to the ECB and IMF begging for bailout funds. Priceless. He then quotes from the letters while Lenihan squirms.
Unlike Americans, the Irish are very aware that they are being saddled illegally with private banking debt, and some are furious. Joseph McNamara is at it again, protesting the Bank Bailouts with construction equipment in front of the Dail: http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0930/dailprotest.html
The unfairness of bailing out banks on the backs of poor people is openly discussed in Irish papers, on TV, and in the Dail. They KNOW they are being screwed by big banks and an illegitimate, unelected EU government on the continent. They know banks continue to profit with each bailout, paid for with their austerity.
It’s gratifying for ONCE to see the guilty parties accused, on the floor of the Dail, of the crimes for which they are responsible. Lenihan’s looks grim, no doubt thinking about the fact that no amount of money will ever bring back his good name. Like Mark Madoff’s wife and kids, his family may be forced to change their name or country. NOBODY wants to live their lives scorned by their entire country.