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Australia “win” cricket match against Asian team

Is Alan Greenspan a fool, lunatic or liar?

I’m struggling through the turgid, self-justifying drivel that is Alan Greenspan’s book about his time as Chairman of the US Federal Reserve. Although I’m only at page 197, as far as I can see, Mr Greenspan feels he was an extremely brilliant economist working together with lots of other extremely brilliant people guiding the US […]

Why Mervyn King doesn’t give a toss about inflation

For more than two years, the Bank of England’s monthly inflation forecasts have been wrong. Every single time. In any other job, you’d get fired for such incompetence. But in our overpaid, self-serving, useless public sector, such incompetence is the rule rather than the exception. But is it really incompetence? Or dishonesty? After all, it’s […]

Footballer “heroes” score goals

Apparently there were some football games on Boxing Day and some overpaid, pig-ignorant, preening footballers scored some goals. The press immediately calls these spoilt thugs “heroes”. I don’t see much that is heroic in being paid millions a year to try and cheat and foul your way to scoring a few goals. As for our […]

Sadly most poverty is a result of stupidity, corruption and greed

Banks screw us again and again and again

We ordinary taxpayers have lost tens of billions bailing out banks that continue to pay their staff huge salaries and massive bonuses in spite of the fact that many are effectively bankrupt. Now the useless EU has come up with a new way of handing our money to the bankers. The European Central Bank (ECB) […]

Are lazy Aussies destroying their children’s future?

You think BA are awful? You should try AA or Quantas

Would you lend your money to the PIIGS?

Cowardly Dutch surrender to Germany without firing a shot, yet again

Why are the Dutch such gutless, spineless cowards? In World War 2 they surrendered to Germany without firing a shot. More recently, when put in charge of protecting the Muslims in Srebenica, the “Dutch soldiers” ( an oxymoron if there ever was one) handed over thousands of Muslim men to be murdered by the Serbs, […]