Economic Treason - it's not only Fianna Fáil

darkman2

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Ireland-worse-than-Greece-faces-financial-ruin-say-two-leading-economists--94688524.html



I think Ireland is in a very bad spot but I don't think Ireland is as bad as Greece. I also think that two "Irish" economists putting stuff like this in the New York times of all places is going to make our situation worse - how the hell can it make it better? Sometimes I think some of these economists would be better off using a bit of cop on before destroying the country abroad. Also alot of economists I hear talk, whether good or bad about the econom,y have self interest in what they are saying. Im not against a realistic assessment of how screwed we are abroad - no way - but I am against sabotage like this. That is what that is - putting an article as one sided as that in the World's most popular paper.

WTF are they doing? Why don't they just STFU and let us continue dealing with the problems instead of preparing a tombstone?

Kasabian

They are earning a living , it's not like it's a secret ye are fcuked financially

admiralofthefleet

we will be worse off than the greeks within a few months

why?

because they invented gayness

ejmaztec

Some people just don't know when to keep their traps shut, like Sarkozy threatening to pull France out of the Euro, only to see the currency drop like a brick afterwards.

One badly chosen word in the wrong place, and we're screwed even more.

ScumLord

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

we will be worse off than the greeks within a few months

why?

because they invented gayness

Damn, that's worth a fortune. The drag queen market alone could save half the country.

segaBOY

darkman2 wrote: »

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Ireland-worse-than-Greece-faces-financial-ruin-say-two-leading-economists--94688524.html



I think Ireland is in a very bad spot but I don't think Ireland is as bad as Greece. I also think that two "Irish" economists putting stuff like this in the New York times of all places is going to make our situation worse - how the hell can it make it better? Sometimes I think some of these economists would be better off using a bit of cop on before destroying the country abroad. Also alot of economists I hear talk, whether good or bad about the econom,y have self interest in what they are saying. Im not against a realistic assessment of how screwed we are abroad - no way - but I am against sabotage like this. That is what that is - putting an article as one sided as that in the World's most popular paper.

WTF are they doing? Why don't they just STFU and let us continue dealing with the problems instead of preparing a tombstone?

Ireland's problems have been known for quite some time on the global front. Burrying our heads in the sand and pretending they don't exist when talking to our neighbours is not going to do us any good. If we can admit to what has gone wrong and show we are working to fix it then international confidence in our economy will return much quicker over pretending our problems don't exist.

dasdog

Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, and Peter Boone of the London School of Economics. They are Irish?

BTW, the "Miracle or Mirage" article was published last Thursday. And for what it's worth I believe you will get a more realistic picture from them than you will most local sources even if you are to believe there is an American/Anglo vested interest in € bashing as one minister from "The Republican Party" said yesterday. Remember when the NAMA haircuts were announced in the Dail we were told house prices had "reached the bottom" (again)?. The original article makes grim reading as does Morgan Kelly's from Saturday. What goes up must come down and we went a long way up on an economy stacked like a house of cards. We are entering part two of global double dip recession time I fear and we are not in a good position as it stands.

Anyone else find it hard to keep caring about the whole thing?

SV

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

we will be worse off than the greeks within a few months

why?

because they invented gayness

ah yes but we invented 'taking it' so I'm sure we'll get along fine.

120_Minutes

That article is pretty spot on i think. FF papering over the cracks. I have no problem with the country going to the wall, then maybe some big multinational will bail us out...it couldnt be much worse that the ****e we're in now.

Ireland: sponsored by pepsi/google/microsoft etc...

oceanclub

These guys should stop talking the economy down. Bertie was right; they should all commit suicide.

P.

InReality

Telling critics to shut up is what got us into this mess.

ejmaztec

InReality wrote: »

Telling critics to shut up is what got us into this mess.

It's a great pity that they weren't 1000s of them screaming from the rooftops long before everything went down the crapper.

Now, it's like bolting Shergar's stable-door this afternoon.