My feelings are that this will be an interesting year and much more so than any since 2007.

Very Funny. Thanks and then some Python marvellous stuff. It counts as an evening out in my quiet corner up in the hills of southern Sweden.

John
As my Mother always said, ” It will all come out with the wash.”

Stevie -it’s my belief the Anglo/American cartel are the major players/drivers in this financial idiocy and its debt lottery.

How else do we square the circle of the worlds two largest debtor nations, who both rely heavily on the finance industry, being able to sell their bonds at rates lower than those applicable to more solvent nations?

America and the UK are already controlled by the financial oligarchs, now they are squeezing the EU in order to gain the same supremacy.

I think Germany knows this, but this time its fighting a war on 26 fronts and it hasn’t got central control.

But hey, as always that’s only my opinion; maybe the £30bn has already been earmarked to bail out the Osborne wall paper business?

I see the games starting again tonight euro down against the dollar – no mention of the pound! Parity for the new world order?

Not to forget the classic: http://youtu.be/YUhb0XII93I

Phil,

I grew up in Bethnal Green,where such luminaries as The Kray twins were to be found as opposed (literally) to FF and the Richardsons.

It has often occured to me that the problem with the Dick Fulds and Jamie Dimons of this world is that they have been too sheltered from the real psychopaths. I suggest we stick ’em in the Downham Tavern for an evening to see how their ego copes with the close attention I’m sure they would attract!

Ah well… a man can dream, can’t he?

One afternoon a 1%er was riding in his limousine when he saw two men along the roadside eating grass.

Disturbed, he ordered his driver to stop and got out to investigate.

He asked one man, “Why are you eating grass?”

“We don’t have any money for food,” the poor man replied. “We have to eat grass.”

“Well, then, you can come with me to my house, and I’ll feed you,” the 1%er said.

“But sir, I have a wife and two children with me. They are over there under that tree.”

“Bring them along,” the 1%er replied.

Turning to the other poor man he stated, “You may come with us also.”

The second man, in a pitiful voice, then said, “But sir, I also have a wife and SIX children with me!”

“Bring them all as well,” the 1%er answered.

They all entered the car, which was no easy task, even for a car as large as the limousine was.

Once under way, one of the poor fellows turned to the 1%er and said, “Sir, you are too kind. Thank you for taking all of us with you.”

The 1%er replied, “Glad to do it.
You’ll really love my place. The grass is almost a foot high.”