Economic Terrorism?

grizzly1911

Clifford_Pope wrote: »

If you borrow trillions of dollars that you can't afford to pay back, and then when you realise, you go on borrowing more, then it doesn't need a financial terrorist to cause disaster.

You can liken it to a game of cards - providing someone doesn't walk away with the pot it should all revolve unless someone cheats or someone is a complete moron and shouldn't be playing the game.

gagahouse

I cannot take anyone who takes this 'article' seriously, seriously.
It plays on the ignorance of people about CDS and IRS to scare and confuse.
You could eliminate all the CDS in the world and Greece, Spain, Italy would still be in a mess, in fact they would be even worse. IRS has absolutely nothing to do with current yields on their sovereign debt. Yields are being driven by fears of insolvency and US yields by seeking somewhere to park money, nothing more elaborate than that.

yertiz_2

Generali wrote: »

It is among the monkeys of Essex.

You know the old song, never smile at a crocodile? Well the only reason that they don't sing to knowingly split an infinitive, is something an Essex simian can't forgive is because nobody ever got out of there alive that tried such a grammatical abomination.

Is this helpful as a reply?

Generali

yertiz wrote: »

Is this helpful as a reply?

Not in the slightest IMHO.

FTBFun

Apparently the writer has an academic background in law and economics. However as he hasn't said where from (which most commentators would mention I think) I can only conclude he's as educated in those subjects as Gillian McKeith is in, er, anything.

Loughton_Monkey

Generali wrote: »

It is among the monkeys of Essex.

You know the old song, never smile at a crocodile? Well the only reason that they don't sing to knowingly split an infinitive, is something an Essex simian can't forgive is because nobody ever got out of there alive that tried such a grammatical abomination.

Us primates of Essex [who happen to have been born, raised and educated in the far more civilised county of Cambridgeshire] are indeed upset by grammatical abominations, of which the split infinitive is a common example.

It is not as bad, however, as the tendency for Essex people to call you "Babe", but I think my blood boils to its highest temperature when I hear the all too frequent phrase such as "I done English at school."

Generali

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

Us primates of Essex [who happen to have been born, raised and educated in the far more civilised county of Cambridgeshire] are indeed upset by grammatical abominations, of which the split infinitive is a common example.

It is not as bad, however, as the tendency for Essex people to call you "Babe", but I think my blood boils to its highest temperature when I hear the all too frequent phrase such as "I done English at school."

Babe doesn't bother me; I see it like Mate, Duck, Luv etc.

TBH the only grammatical thing that really gets my goat is when people 'correct' my English incorrectly. I had a Japanese woman who was a very good accountant but didn't understand banking and for whom English was a very second tongue try to stand behind me and point out my mistakes in an email. Over 2 years later, people still joke about how angry I got.