“I’ve listened to enough of your crap ! You’re a ******* git !” – And then he began firing.
- Michael Lewis’ account of Irishman Gary Keogh throwing rotten eggs at the chairman of Allied Irish Bank, in his Vanity Fair article ‘When Irish Eyes Are Crying’.
“We have so much unemployment, it is so undercounted. The free market economists report that there is probably 22% of unemployment. They [the Fed] pumped in $4 trillion, they should have added a lot of jobs, but how much did it cost us, and that of course is the price inflation that will come. We are moving into another 30 year period where we are going to see a reversal of interest rates, and we are going to see a crashing of the bonds like we saw 30 years ago and it’s going to last a long, long time. The Fed deserves the blame for the inflation, and for the unemployment.”
- US Congressman Ron Paul.
Mention ‘Holland’ to people and you conjure up a variety of associations. Some think of a longstanding and spicy relationship of trading and military sparring with Britain that was formally salved with the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Some think of an impressively cultured and polyglot race. Some of us think of about two full school terms devoted to the Dutch Revolt that never actually featured in our History A-Level Exam, so thanks for that, Oxford and Cambridge Board. Now we can add another facet to this colourful and otherwise learned country: the quasi-fascistic bullying of an innocent pension fund.
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