Greek elections
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tbh, I though his response was slightly incoherent, but I suspect some of it was down the problems with communication equipment
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Lazard worked the previous Greek government(s) advising them on debt restructuring and privatisations.
coley
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Don't know about that but they've halted the privatisations,so it looks like they intend to keep their promises?
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Continuity, then.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
He makes Gidiot and Balls look like chumps.
Lo Siento.
Second As Farce
Err... do you think we're still on the Gold Standard?
coley
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Errr....no.
Lo Siento.
Second As Farce
So what exactly is it that you think "I promise to pay the bearer" actually means?
The point is Coley that what we call "money" is actually completely worthless--mere paper, and these days not even that, not even having any physical existence at all. It's just a token. But our society has fetishized this token, ascribing it a magical power, and allowing it to rule over us.
Economists will try to tell you that money is real because it refers to real things etc.... they talk absolute horseshit. Everyone can see that money is independent, autonomous of anything in the material world.
Btw you owe me fifty quid.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
That worked out well.
I wonder if Lazard is working for a flat fee or a percentage.
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Lo Siento.
Second As Farce
Not sure what your definition of "real" is. Money's as real as any other social relationship.
Patteran
A nowadays excuse
"phildwyer" has no physical existence at all. I for one shall not let it rule over me
'Je sais bien mais quand meme'
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He is making quite a stir, but I still think he sounds like a poet when he makes statements, maybe no bad thing after the suits, etc.
btw, he met Osborne today, he (Osborne) had his forced smile all prepared.
He makes Gidiot and Balls look like chumps.
He is making quite a stir, but I still think he sounds like a poet when he makes statements, maybe no bad thing after the suits, etc.
btw, he met Osborne today, he (Osborne) had his forced smile all prepared.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
looks like they've got some sort of a deal on the debt - and rumours that the troika will be abolished.
Cant see merkel being too happy - i guess they'll spin so it doesn't look like a climbdown by the ECB - but the truth is that syriza look like they've got an easing of austerity.
http://www.theguardian.com/business...ek-debt-swap-plan-calms-markets-business-live
Cant see merkel being too happy - i guess they'll spin so it doesn't look like a climbdown by the ECB - but the truth is that syriza look like they've got an easing of austerity.
http://www.theguardian.com/business...ek-debt-swap-plan-calms-markets-business-live
Can anyone guess whose words these are?
"Should we be afraid of Syriza’s ‘ultra-leftism’? My answer is a resounding No. I recommend that (even those who have Greek amongst their languages) you do not read their manifesto. It is not worth the paper it is written on. While replete with good intentions, it is short on detail, full of promises that cannot, and will not be fulfilled (the greatest one is that austerity will be cancelled), a hotchpotch of policies that are neither here nor there. Just ignore it."
"Should we be afraid of Syriza’s ‘ultra-leftism’? My answer is a resounding No. I recommend that (even those who have Greek amongst their languages) you do not read their manifesto. It is not worth the paper it is written on. While replete with good intentions, it is short on detail, full of promises that cannot, and will not be fulfilled (the greatest one is that austerity will be cancelled), a hotchpotch of policies that are neither here nor there. Just ignore it."
Yanis Varoufakis, 2012.
Yanis is obviously a smart guy but I don't think he's in a particularly strong position - I'd suspect a lot of what we're hearing from him is just posturing and aimed at his domestic audience - he needs to be seen to be talking tough because regardless of the fact they were elected on an anti austerity they're still pretty much going to have to choose between austerity or crashing out of the eurozone. He's not going to get too much of a compromise but at least the aggressive posturing can at least help him save face, he's seen to be doing what he was elected to do despite him being unlikely to be able to change too much.
elbows
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I would not be surprised if there is much wrong with this article, but I still find it fascinating to watch a situation where the following gets said in a BBC piece.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31109731
Ha. Admittedly the context of that bit isn't so much fun, painting Syriza as something of a wet dream for free market capitalists. I am certainly keen to see how wrong or right that article turns out to be.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31109731
Ha. Admittedly the context of that bit isn't so much fun, painting Syriza as something of a wet dream for free market capitalists. I am certainly keen to see how wrong or right that article turns out to be.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Gidiot: the man who failed GCSE Maths meets Yanis Varoufakis: internationally renowned economics professor.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
...and, speaking after today's meeting with German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble, Varoufakis said that he...
teqniq
DisMembered
George Osborne Utterly Fails To Keep Cool Meeting Greece's Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis
I love this bit from the article:
I love this bit from the article:
Amazon, Vodaphone, anyone?
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
tbf our bunch of cunts are world class experts when it comes to taxing the workers' income.
