Vincent Brown.

Dodd

Does anyone watch that show on tv3.
Tonight he did not know what cds means in the market.
Please tv3 get someone good in there.

That should be Browne

UpAgainToday

Dodd wrote: »

Does anyone watch that show on tv3.
Tonight he did not know what cds means in the market.
Please tv3 get someone good in there.

That should be Browne

Lesson here - never watch a financial related program produced in Ireland

Blackjack

He's a journalist, its not his job to know everything.

They just report on everything, and they're not always knowledgeable or correct in their reports.

Comordha

What you say is completely incorrect. Vincent was annoyed with both parties for using fancy lingo to try pull wool over the viewers eyes. Vincent has written extensively on the CDS market in the past for the Sunday Business Post. He understands a lot more than you think. As the chair of the programme it is his duty to make sure the average viewer is being looked after and can understand the topic of conversation. He even said at one stage that this was the purpose of the show - to discuss the current economic dilema in simple English.

turbobaby

Comordha wrote: »

What you say is completely incorrect. Vincent was annoyed with both parties for using fancy lingo to try pull wool over the viewers eyes. Vincent has written extensively on the CDS market in the past for the Sunday Business Post. He understands a lot more than you think. As the chair of the programme it is his duty to make sure the average viewer is being looked after and can understand the topic of conversation. He even said at one stage that this was the purpose of the show - to discuss the current economic dilema in simple English.

spot on!

hmmm

He may write about this stuff but I never get the sense that he has the faintest clue what he is talking about. He is good at raging about international bankers and the like, but knowing what a CDS is or the difference between various forms of debt?

I still find his show entertaining however, but it is a bit like watching Christians being fed to a lion.

woodseb

Didn't Vincent Browne spend a show trying to figure out how many millions in a billion a while back?

Typically of most journalists, they have a poor understanding of the intricacies of finance which is a shame since a better understanding of derivatives, debt, capital markets etc is needed among the general public nowadays

Comordha

He does lose the plot a little from time to time, it could be the age. But he is sharp enough.

displaced dub

Vincent at his best

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QrlMzugvG8

Comordha

Funny video that one. Apres match is great.

Vincent really puts it up to Jack O Connor in this one -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWqj7u5wyXE

Chrysostomos

woodseb wrote: »

Didn't Vincent Browne spend a show trying to figure out how many millions in a billion a while back?

Typically of most journalists, they have a poor understanding of the intricacies of finance which is a shame since a better understanding of derivatives, debt, capital markets etc is needed among the general public nowadays

Yeah I distinctly remember I think it was the idea of "shorting" he did not understand one night.

Speculator

Comordha wrote: »

Funny video that one. Apres match is great.

Vincent really puts it up to Jack O Connor in this one -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWqj7u5wyXE

Ha ha ha great interview! Jack O'Connor is a muppet, so are all the other Union Representives. I dont understand why they think they can hold the government and country to ransom by threatening strike. Somebody needs to explain to them that the country is in recession as a result cuts are required to sustain the financial well being of the state.

Arthurdaly

turbobaby wrote: »

spot on!

+1, you toally missed the point! His job is to simplfy things for the average punter! The show was not geared towards financial gurus!

A bit like Bill O'Herlihy with the soccer he pretends to be stupid in order to extract information!

tenchi-fan

Of course he understands these terms!

If someone from a bank said their variable mortgage interest rates were rising, he would ask them to explain what variable rates are and who sets them. It's for the viewer's benefit, not his own.

Have you ever seen Louis Theroux? His gormless way of going on and his earnest questions? He gets a lot more out of the interviewee that way.