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The IMF gives the Thumbs Up

  • 14-07-2011 3:01pm
    #1
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,077 ✭✭✭✭


    As the more bolshie among you probably noticed, representatives from the IMF spent the last week in Dublin, going over the books. They apparently liked what they saw:
    The teams’ assessment is that the program remains on track and is well financed.
    ...
    Recent developments are consistent with a return to positive growth in 2011.
    ...
    Reforms are being implemented to restore the healthy functioning of the banking sector.
    ...
    On the fiscal front, the cumulative deficit for the first six months of the year was well below the programme ceiling. The budget deficit is projected to be below 10½ percent of GDP in 2011.
    ...
    The authorities are advancing targeted structural reforms.
    Well, that's all right, then. :o

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



Comments

  • #2
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,231 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    bnt wrote: »
    As the more bolshie among you probably noticed, representatives from the IMF spent the last week in Dublin, going over the books. They apparently liked what they saw:

    Well, that's all right, then. :o

    My two fingers cancel out their two thumbs.


  • #3
    wild_cat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭wild_cat


    Did some Irish guy steal a guy from Moodys wife or sell em a dodgy car etc. They seem to still be hatin on us.


  • #4
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,231 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    wild_cat wrote: »
    Did some Irish guy steal a guy from Moodys wife or sell em a dodgy car etc. They seem to still be hatin on us.

    They're just having moody swings.


  • #5
    The Scientician
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭The Scientician


    They always were moody ****s.


  • #6
    Phill Ewinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭Phill Ewinn


    bnt wrote: »
    As the more bolshie among you probably noticed, representatives from the IMF spent the last week in Dublin, going over the books. They apparently liked what they saw:

    Well, that's all right, then. :o

    Bolshie? It's the right wing who have put up the grreatest protest. Gurgiev et al are not renownd lefties.


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  • #7
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,231 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    The Scientician wrote: »
    They always were moody ****s.

    It's probably some old bastard who's just had a bad pint of Guinness, making sh1t up to get his own back.


  • #8
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    They are in the mood for some yank hatin too recently it seems.


  • #9
    IRISHREDSTAR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74 ✭✭IRISHREDSTAR


    The IMF gives the Thumbs Up and the markets give Ireland the up yours


  • #10
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Thank you Massa'


  • #11
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    The teams’ assessment is that the program remains on track and is well financed.
    ...
    Recent developments are consistent with a return to positive growth in 2011.
    ...
    Reforms are being implemented to restore the healthy functioning of the banking sector.
    ...
    On the fiscal front, the cumulative deficit for the first six months of the year was well below the programme ceiling. The budget deficit is projected to be below 10½ percent of GDP in 2011.
    ...
    The authorities are advancing targeted structural reforms.

    In non-political speak and non IMF/FG/Labour spin, the elderly and the vulnerable are getting the legs cut off from underneath them - but thanks heaven the banks are getting it all!


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  • #12
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waacof2saZw


  • #13
    part time punk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 462 ✭✭part time punk


    liking this t-shirt
    http://www.broadsheet.ie/2011/07/14/your-new-t-shirt-4/


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