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Ireland owes the world nearly 2 Trillion Dollars

  • 14-01-2011 11:10PM
    #1
    bobblepuzzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭


    We are in the top 5 of the worlds most indebted countries... we owe $1,841,000,000,000... :(


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  • #2
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,020 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    bobblepuzzle wrote: »
    We are in the top 5 of the worlds most indebted countries... we owe $1,841,000,000,000... :(

    Monopoly money.
    None of it matters, according to certain sources the world will end next year anyway.
    Keep borrowing, blow the lot on coke and hookers.


  • #3
    Sea Sharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    They're feckin eejits for lending it to us in the first place.


  • #4
    bobblepuzzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭bobblepuzzle


    Sea Sharp wrote: »
    They're feckin eejits for lending it to us in the first place.

    Not quite, we are paying the interest... who's the eejits now?


  • #5
    slimjimmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,783 ✭✭✭slimjimmc


    bobblepuzzle wrote: »
    We are in the top 5 of the worlds most indebted countries... we owe $1,841,000,000,000... :(

    Source?


  • #6
    spider guardian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 884 ✭✭✭spider guardian


    yes the "november criminals" have sold us to the IMF, an irish hitler rises from the ashes...


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  • #7
    bobblepuzzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭bobblepuzzle


    slimjimmc wrote: »
    Source?

    Heres one... http://censored31.skynetblogs.be/archive/2010/08/22/top-6-most-indebted-countries-ireland-netherlands-united-kin.html

    but there are many others, CNN also has Ireland number 1 in the list


  • #8
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Why don't we play double or quits.:pac:


  • #9
    Tucking Fypo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 177 ✭✭Tucking Fypo


    Sure we can just give MABS a call, it's cool.:)


  • #10
    bobblepuzzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭bobblepuzzle


    Per capita we are worse than the USA and UK combined... shocking all together... greed I tells ya, GREED!! :pac:


  • #11
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,020 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    bobblepuzzle wrote: »
    Heres one... http://censored31.skynetblogs.be/archive/2010/08/22/top-6-most-indebted-countries-ireland-netherlands-united-kin.html

    but there are many others, CNN also has Ireland number 1 in the list

    Thats not actually a source of the OP.
    There are no figures, just percentages mentioned.
    Amateurs.


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  • #12
    bobblepuzzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭bobblepuzzle


    kippy wrote: »
    Thats not actually a source of the OP.
    There are no figures, just percentages mentioned.
    Amateurs.

    http://makewealthhistory.org/2009/02/13/the-worlds-most-indebted-countries/

    Though it places Ireland 6th...


  • #13
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    I owe my mam 20 quid for petrol.


  • #14
    bobblepuzzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭bobblepuzzle


    phasers wrote: »
    I owe my mam 20 quid for petrol.

    Pathetic! :pac:


  • #15
    Gottalovegreys
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭Gottalovegreys


    Arra sure tis better owed than paid.


  • #16
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    :pac:
    phasers wrote: »
    I owe my mam 20 quid for petrol.

    No bail out for you though.:pac:....:(


  • #17
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    galwayrush wrote: »
    :pac:

    No bail out for you though.:pac:....:(
    Me Da might help me out :cool:


  • #18
    cleremy jarkson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭cleremy jarkson


    So, basically we owe the world about 444444 euro each? (2 trillion divided by 4.5 million)

    Irish people think they're entitled to a standard of living which is higher than other countries, just because we're Irish.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056104729


  • #19
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    bobblepuzzle wrote: »
    http://makewealthhistory.org/2009/02/13/the-worlds-most-indebted-countries/

    Though it places Ireland 6th...



    You do realise that this article is nearly two years old.

    February 13, 2009


  • #20
    bobblepuzzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭bobblepuzzle


    cleremy jarkson wrote: »
    So, basically we owe the world about 444444 euro each? (2 trillion divided by 4.5 million)

    Irish people think they're entitled to a standard of living which is higher than other countries, just because we're Irish.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056104729

    We need to pay off the IMF/EU/UK bailout first :P Then we can start that couple of trillion :P


  • #21
    bobblepuzzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭bobblepuzzle


    Rented Mule wrote: »
    You do realise that this article is nearly two years old.

    February 13, 2009

    Deadly, that would explain why we are in the top 5 NOW :D


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  • #22
    Einhard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,919 ✭✭✭Einhard


    That picture of Irish debt is skewed bythe inclusion of the debt held by firms based in the IFSC, and doesn't at all reflect Ireland's true debt. About 3/4 of the debt alluded to is held by these international companies based in, or working from, Ireland, and is often quite short term; the rest is made up of Irish government debt and bank debt, which basically amounts to the same thing, and consumer debt. Not as sensational as the OP, but the facts rarely are!


  • #23
    bobblepuzzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭bobblepuzzle


    Einhard wrote: »
    That picture of Irish debt is skewed bythe inclusion of the debt held by firms based in the IFSC, and doesn't at all reflect Ireland's true debt. About 3/4 of the debt alluded to is held by these international companies based in, or working from, Ireland, and is often quite short term; the rest is made up of Irish government debt and back debt, which basically amounts to the same thing, and consumer debt. Not as sensational as the OP, but the facts rarely are!

    That is Irelands national debt figure... the same formula is used for all of the other countries...


  • #24
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,020 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    bobblepuzzle wrote: »
    That is Irelands national debt figure... the same formula is used for all of the other countries...

    Eh, the same formula may be used, however the skewage is far more significant in irelands case.

    As I said, we're fubbed anyway.


  • #25
    Einhard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,919 ✭✭✭Einhard


    bobblepuzzle wrote: »
    That is Irelands national debt figure... the same formula is used for all of the other countries...

    Yes, but in Ireland it's skewed by the fact that we have the massive holdings of the international firms based in the IFSC included in the figures of a small economy. That distorts the figures entirely. The figures you linked to do not reflect Ireland's debt, but rather the debt held in Ireland at a particular moment. Including by international firms whose debt is not that of Ireland as a state, or the Irish as a people.


  • #26
    bobblepuzzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭bobblepuzzle


    Einhard wrote: »
    Yes, but in Ireland it's skewed by the fact that we have the massive holdings of the international firms based in the IFSC included in the figures of a small economy. That distorts the figures entirely. The figures you linked to do not reflect Ireland's debt, but rather the debt held in Ireland at a particular moment. Including by international firms whose debt is not that of Ireland as a state, or the Irish as a people.

    OK, what is Irelands real debt then?


  • #27
    slimjimmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,783 ✭✭✭slimjimmc


    Einhard wrote: »
    Yes, but in Ireland it's skewed by the fact that we have the massive holdings of the international firms based in the IFSC included in the figures of a small economy. That distorts the figures entirely. The figures you linked to do not reflect Ireland's debt, but rather the debt held in Ireland at a particular moment. Including by international firms whose debt is not that of Ireland as a state, or the Irish as a people.


    +1


  • #28
    matt-dublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,479 ✭✭✭matt-dublin


    cleremy jarkson wrote: »
    So, basically we owe the world about 444444 euro each? (2 trillion divided by 4.5 million)

    Irish people think they're entitled to a standard of living which is higher than other countries, just because we're Irish.

    http://m.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056104729

    Sounds about the same price as my mortgage :D:D


  • #29
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,020 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    bobblepuzzle wrote: »
    OK, what is Irelands real debt then?

    2 pints of lager and a packet of crisps.


  • #30
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,098 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    kippy wrote: »
    2 pints of lager and a packed of crisps.

    He was asking whats the debt not what its worth :/


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  • #31
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,020 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Stinicker wrote: »
    He was asking whats the debt not what its worth :/

    Thats the debt.
    Barter is where its at.
    Currency aint worth a **** with all the vulture speculators out there.


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