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Brown for Nobel Prize?

StevieJ
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Our Gordon does receive a lot of criticism, but should he really be nominated for this years Nobel prize in Economics :D Will we be looking back in a few years and saying thank god for Gordon :beer:

Good article
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article5636248.ece
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
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  • amcluesent
    amcluesent Posts: 9,425 Forumite
    LOL. Anatole Kaletsky is my benchmark for daft advice, everything he says the opposite comes to pass. Man's a fool, but a useful fool none-the-less.

    Will he take the wooden-spoon prize as The Last Man Who Thought Clown Knew What To Do?
  • Oblivion
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    Brown should get the NoBalls prize. If he had any, he would have resigned months ago.

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  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    I notice the right wing fanatics are in first :rotfl:
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • Generali
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    The comments at the end of the piece are interesting. Anatole is spouting his usual erudite rubbish. Is he angling for an honour? Surely he doesn't believe this rubbish.
  • vivatifosi
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    If GB makes it to the short list for the Nobel Price for Economics, you've got to wonder who else was on the long list - Greenspan, Paulson, Bush...
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  • Generali
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    vivatifosi wrote: »
    If GB makes it to the short list for the Nobel Price for Economics, you've got to wonder who else was on the long list - Greenspan, Paulson, Bush...

    It reminds me of the comment about when Henry 'bomb Cambodia' Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize, "The day that satire died".
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    I notice the right wing fanatics are in first :rotfl:

    Hardly right wing fanatics.

    Just people who can see sense. They could be right or left wing, or in the middle. But a nobel prize for economics? That's pretty high up there in the deluded stakes.

    I read the first line "GB Saves the world yet again" and didnt bother reading any further, as he hasn't saved the world even once.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Hardly right wing fanatics.

    Just people who can see sense. They could be right or left wing, or in the middle. But a nobel prize for economics? That's pretty high up there in the deluded stakes.

    I read the first line "GB Saves the world yet again" and didnt bother reading any further, as he hasn't saved the world even once.

    Well !!!!!! linked to his piece of depressive Times fantasy, as is his want :D
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    Well !!!!!! linked to his piece of depressive Times fantasy, as is his want :D

    What? In English?
  • SGE1
    SGE1 Posts: 784 Forumite
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    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Hardly right wing fanatics.

    Just people who can see sense. They could be right or left wing, or in the middle. But a nobel prize for economics? That's pretty high up there in the deluded stakes.

    I read the first line "GB Saves the world yet again" and didnt bother reading any further, as he hasn't saved the world even once.

    Hmm, a man with an opinion who hasn't bothered reading the article... Reassuring.
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